Volume 5 Chapter 23 - Exploring the Azshara Tribe (1/2)

The next morning, the three Magic Ships sailed off from Thunderbolt Island.

Compared to when they came where the islanders were nervous seeing these three giant iron monstrosities, when they left, the islanders all came to see them off with happy smiles on their faces.

The islanders didn’t know what agreement their leader reached with these unexpected visitors, but they could see that these unexpected visitors had moved quite a bit of cargo from the three giant ships.

Among them was not only the daily necessities they needed, as well as large amounts of meat and a bunch of strange looking things made of iron.

As long as Magic Crystals were inserted into these iron things, they would activate and perform many strange functions.

For example, the Magic Fan’s fan blade would turn quickly and blow out wind.

For example, the Magic Stove could send out flames without lighting a fire.

For example……

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The fellows that had some knowledge on the island knew that these things were the household magic machines that were very popular in the Stantine Duchy.

Each one of these things weren’t cheap. Just the cheapest Magic Fan would cost over five gold coins for one.

With the household magic machines the visitors left, it would cost over three hundred gold coins if they were all added together.

If they added in the other items, these guests had left gifts worth over five hundred gold coins on their island.

In return, all they received was a large amount of clean water.

This clean water was considered precious on the sea, but for Thunderbolt Island that had three natural springs and a natural lake, it wasn’t worth mentioning.

The islanders were happy, but they were also a bit doubtful.

Those visitors were all armed with weapons and their leader wasn’t willing to steal from them. But why did these visitors not just steal the water that they needed from the island with their powerful weapons, why did they instead trade such precious goods with them instead?

Could it be that they really were like that dark skinned middle aged man who always smiled had said? They were only normal merchants and wanted to exchange something of equal value?

The people of the island disdained this idea, but they weren’t against happily accepting the various gifts that these visitors had left.

Only a few people noticed that captain Ragsar who had always been forward had fallen silent when these people left. It was like he was distracted by something, always worrying about something.

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“Captain, do you think that Ragsar is willing to cooperate with us?” The lieutenant looked back and found that Thunderbolt Island had been thrown into the distance, they couldn’t even see a trace of it. He couldn’t help asking Narvil this.

“Of course he’s willing.” Narvil said in a confident voice, “This cooperation is very beneficial to him and his Thunderbolt Pirates, so of course he will agree.”

“But what if he goes against his promise after we left…..”

“Relax, he wouldn’t dare and he wouldn’t be willing.” Narvil said with a faint smile, “Such a good chance is in front of him, if he doesn’t know to grab it, we can only say that he is a fool who can’t be saved. But if he really is that stupid, he wouldn’t be able to be the leader of the pirate group and wouldn’t have prepared an island as an escape route ahead of time. He is a pirate captain with foresight, so he will definitely understand the benefits of cooperating with us.”

The lieutenant thought about it before nodding, “Un, I think the same.”

Narvil laughed, “Actually, it doesn’t matter even if he isn’t willing to cooperate with us. Without the Thunderbolt Pirates, there are other pirate groups that we can choose to work with, we aren’t limited to them. Not to mention that we have already verified the situation of the island, as well as marking down the island’s location. It doesn’t matter that much if we have the Thunderbolt Pirates or not.”

Hearing Narvil talk about Thunderbolt Island, the lieutenant couldn’t help revealing a pleased smile.

“Right, I never thought that this small Thunderbolt Island would have a natural mineral vein and a natural port. As long as it is developed, it can be treated as a sea base for our Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If sir chairman knew about this, he definitely would be very happy.”

“It’s not just this. The position of this Thunderbolt Island is very good and it is right on our route. There are no other islands within an entire hundred kilometers, so if we can get this, we’ll be able to control this area of sea. With the current power of the Rudson Kingdom’s fleet, they won’t be able to manage this place. So as long as our company takes it, the place deeper into the sea will all belong to our Frestech Chamber of Commerce.”

“Un. Sir chairman has always emphasized the importance of controlling the sea to us, so I think that he will place importance in this part of the sea.”

“Of course, sir chairman’s foresight is not something we can compare to. The only problem now is whether the Rudson Kingdom will approve of this or not.”

Narvil looked to the northeast.

There was something faint that could be seen on the horizon.

According to the nautical charts Ragsar provided, they were already close to Nissi City’s harbour.

Reaching the Nissi City harbour would mean that their voyage had successfully reached the end.

This was a super long seafaring voyage of over three thousand kilometers.