An excerpt from the book, Undertow: Beacon of Hope, or Lie of the Masses:
When the Storm Queen started attacking locations of high slave activity, the people were confused...at first.
Why did she spend so much time attacking places where there were no cultivation resources, simply living chattel that had to be fed, cared for and essentially served no purpose other than hard larbor?
Was there actually some kind of mine or special farm found only in the [Abyssal Lands]?
Was she actually gathering up people for the sake of a large scale sacrifice?
It wasn't until the first batch of refugees fleeing to other kingdoms that the people of Pearl Scale learned the truth: she was freeing slaves.
She didn't try to recruit them into an army, she didn't spill their blood for a ritual, she didn't even try to take their children as payment for freeing them from their shackles!