Published: March 12, 2025
Chapter 493: The Final Ownership of Golden Island
This time, the scale of the fleet sent by the Aksu Empire to Golden Island was known by almost everyone, as countless eyes on the continent were focused on that place. The fleet sent to Golden Island not only included crew members and combat personnel but also many craftsmen, whose main purpose was to build a naval base.
With five hundred warships plus these craftsmen and some laborers, the total number of people likely reached several hundred thousand. And now, it had turned into several hundred thousand undead beings? Moreover, it was Zhao Hai who did it; if that wasn't the devil, then who was?
Even the notorious killers on the continent would hesitate if they had to personally kill hundreds of thousands of people. But Zhao Hai didn’t even blink an eye as he turned those hundreds of thousands into countless undead beings, which was far more ruthless than merely killing them.
While they were shocked by Zhao Hai's cruelty, they were even more astonished by his strength. What kind of person could turn hundreds of thousands of people into undead beings? Just how powerful was he? All of this cast a mysterious veil over Zhao Hai.
The major forces on the continent were keen on lifting this veil, not just out of curiosity, but more so for their own interests. The strength and methods Zhao Hai exhibited were truly horrifying.
When the people on the continent began to investigate Zhao Hai, they discovered how terrifying he was. For the first eighteen years of his life, he had been a typical low-level young master, the kind that relied on a bit of family power to act tyrannically and was unlearned, often referred to as a low-level wastrel.
However, after drinking the Void Water and being exiled to that deliberately abandoned place, he underwent a qualitative change. A few months later, he reappeared on the continent under the alias Zhao Hai.
As soon as he emerged, he received the notorious undead mercenary group, and then he calmly conducted his business, only to end up at odds with the church of light and the Magedel family, fleeing to the grasslands after killing a group of people.
Once he came out from the grasslands, he transformed yet again. Later, he entered the Roson Empire, where Duke Ryan fell from power, and his entire family was slaughtered. He then clashed with the Karlqi family until they were forced to submit. Following that, he saved the Versailles Principality, acquiring nearly one hundred thousand undead beings, and showcased his nearly ten thousand orc tribe undead beings. Subsequently, he annihilated the Robert family, and what drew the most attention was his method: he killed every member of the Robert family without leaving a single living soul and turned them into undead beings, culminating with the hundreds of thousands from the Aksu Empire.
Now, when people calculated, it was astounding; Zhao Hai had nearly one million undead beings under his command! Nearly one million high-level undead beings? What kind of power was this? Forget about ordinary families, even the millennia-old families and those great empires would not dare to easily offend him.
In the past, people might not have taken him seriously, thinking that no matter how strong Zhao Hai was, he was still not a ninth-level expert, and neither did the Budah family have any ninth-level experts. They could still force him back to the Black Earth Wilderness. But now, things had changed. It was said that Zhao Hai had a ninth-level expert in his ranks, and on top of that, he was the son-in-law of the Karlqi family and an eternal ally of the Krook family. Under such circumstances, anyone on the continent who dared to offend Zhao Hai would definitely be asking for trouble.
Since Zhao Hai arrived at Golden Island, all factions on the continent suddenly lost their voice, and even the Aksu Empire was silent.
Then, Zhao Hai promptly issued a statement declaring Golden Island the first free port on the continent. Anyone doing business here, regardless of their identity, could operate as long as they paid taxes and did not cause trouble on the island. No weapons were allowed on the sea within a thousand miles of Golden Island; anyone who dared to engage in combat within that area would be killed!