Two pirate ships. Damian was expecting that to happen pretty soon. In fact, he was shocked to have lasted three days before something like that happened.

Ted felt the same way. The worst part was that the ships appeared in the night, when they just wanted to relax and try to nap.

A voice came from one of the ships. It was their captain.

"Give us everything you have, and we might let you live."

Damian wasn’t scared of that situation or anything like that. In fact, it was the complete opposite.

The moment those ships arrived, he was already using his powers to check everyone’s power, and they were all weak. Those were not the type of enemies that he should be afraid of.

He looked at Ted, who was controlling the ship at the wheel.

"We can get one of those ships for us," Damian said, "should I just force the crew to work for us or kill some of them?"

Ted analyzed the ship and the number of people he saw on the deck.

"I think you can kill like 5 to 10 people. It will still have enough to control the ship for us."

The ship was big, so it required more people to keep everything in check. Also, Damian didn’t want to have to work to control the ship. So, he NEEDED a crew.

"Alright, good."

Damian stared at the ship, which was farther from them. The two ships were clearly working together, but only one got too close to them.

For them, a small boat like the one they had wasn’t difficult to steal from, so why use both ships?

Damian saw that as the perfect opportunity to send a message to those people.

He looked toward Ted and said, "Can you lend me a dagger?"

Ted didn’t know why, but he gave him the same. Damian grabbed the dagger and cut the palm of his right hand.

Blood flowed from the wound, dripping on the boat’s wooden floor.

With his blood magic knowledge, Damian used one of his many spells to destroy that ship.

"Blood Sun," he whispered as magical circles formed in the air.

The blood from his wound started floating, then expanding, turning into a massive ball of blood!

It radiated a tremendous amount of energy that made everyone present gasp for air.

Then, it flew toward the ship.

"Attack! Watch out!"

Despite the yelling, it didn’t matter. The Blood Sun reached the ship pretty damn fast, and when it did, it completely destroyed it!

The Blood Sun opened a massive hole in the ship, basically ripping it in two. But that was not all of them. From the ball of blood, multiple spikes came out, piercing through every single one of the ship’s crew!

To top it off, those spikes drained the life essence of all of them, turning them into mummies. All of them died in a matter of seconds.

With it, Damian felt the power coming to his body, as well as the madness. However, he managed to contain his madness, as the people he drained weren’t that powerful.

The gain in attributes was low, around 3 points per attribute, but it was better than nothing.

What Damian truly wanted was to make the other ship, the one with the person yelling at them, get scared.

He didn’t stop there. Instantly, with his spatial magic, Damian blinked into the ship, appearing in the middle of the whole crew.

For them, it was like he was a devil in the night, something that came to reap their souls and bring them all to the underworld.

That’s the feeling they had when looking at his cold gaze and feeling his devilish aura.

"I can let you all live if you come with me and help me with something. This means I will be your captain from now on. Are we clear?"

A group of five people from that crew weren’t so convinced about his power. Or they just thought they stood a chance against him.

The moment they moved, Damian snapped his fingers, making the blood inside their bodies boil and eventually explode, turning them into dead flesh.

"Clean it, and continue the journey. My friend there will explain where we need to go."

The ship’s crew obeyed his every word. They cleaned the deck, tossing the remains of their friends into the ocean as if it were nothing.

Those people had been together for a long time, and just like that, five of them were tossed like nothing.

They helped Ted get onto the ship as well and carried his supplies too.

The captain came to speak with Damian. It was an older man with a scar on his right eye. He was blind in that eye.

"What are you?" the captain asked.

"A person," Damian said, "I don’t need to share anything with you. Are you going to do what I said?"

"Of course I will. Do you think I am stupid? You just destroyed a whole ship with a single spell and killed five of us with a snap of your fingers. I’m an old pirate. Only the smart ones survive in this line of work."

Damian smiled at that.

"You’re damn right."

"I’ve heard you are going to the three islands. I can tell you are pretty strong, like really powerful, but there are some pirates there who are pretty powerful."

The old captain was just trying to warn Damian about it. Damian didn’t take it to heart.

"Relax, now I have a crew to help me," Damian said.

The captain disliked where that was going—the chances of him and his crew dying on those islands were high. But going against Damian would give them the same destiny...

So, everyone just shut up and sailed the ship toward the island. Now, with a much bigger ship and a crew, Damian would reach the island much quicker.

Ted believed it would take them four more days to get there.

Damian was starting to get worry with how much time they needed to get to that place.

’Please, be alright,’ he thought, thinking about his friends.