“Walk faster, you filthy brutes!”

“Hurry up!”

Four pirates shouted while dragging several figures behind them. The pirates were armed with torches and cutlasses, and the figures behind them were tied up with ropes.

‘That’s…’

Eugene was quite surprised. Those who were being dragged were not humans. The bodies of the figures were covered with fine, glossy, dark brown hair, and they were very similar in appearance to the seals Eugene had sometimes seen on his way back and forth from Maren and Moffern.

‘Hybrids?’

The seal humans possessed longer and plumper bodies than humans and their fin-like limbs were quite short. As such, they couldn’t move quickly even with the pirates urging them.

“Fuck. Let’s get this over with and get out of here.”

“B-but do you think the demon god will accept our request?”

“I’m certain,” the pirates were conversing in an unfamiliar language, but Eugene was able to understand thanks to the ability of ‘language interpretation’ he gained from consuming the drake’s mana stone.

“The demon god likes unique things, right? Since we have ten sacrifices, I’m sure it’s enough to satisfy… What?!” The pirates continued to clamor in a voice filled with fear, then they suddenly stopped in their tracks. They had finally discovered the lifeless corpse of the sea monster.

“The demon god is dead!”

“W-what...