Up until a few minutes ago, the pirate clan, the Wild Skull, had been feeling gleeful.

“So a large amount of Predators appeared, hm? And then they all disappeared?”

“Yes. We can’t find any traces of the Predators on our radar anymore, so we can just go and start collecting things.”

“Hue hue hue. I thought something big was going on all those Predators. I didn’t realize it would be such a good thing for us.”

The pirates all guffawed as they turned their ship around. Predators usually showed up whenever there was lots of prey, like a fleet of boats. If these pods of Predators disappeared, that meant a large fleet might have engaged them in battle. Even if the Predators had been routed, they would have likely caused some damage to the fleet, too.

There might be all kinds of treasures floating around, which the Wild Skull was ready to harvest. This was what they normally did, and they were expecting a big score. It had been a while since they’d managed to get a large amount of booty, and they were all excited. However,...