Gray Dwarves' Predicament

To control the slave trade along the West Coast of Elf Continent, the Gray Dwarves not only formed an alliance with the sea monsters of the Lost Sea, but also seized every island in the Kui Island Sea from the Naga Sea Clan.

Having gradually gained a foothold on Kui Island, the Gray Dwarves were not content with merely controlling the Kui Island Sea. They set their sights on the first line of defense along the West Coast of Elf Continent—the Empress Ivini Islands.

Over the past decade or so, although the Silver Moon Elves and their Silver Pegasus Knight Order had always occupied the Empress Ivini Islands, they had also suffered constant harassment from Gray Dwarf Bandits.

Especially in recent years, with the sea monsters' help, the Gray Dwarf Bandits had even successfully occupied some of the outer islands of the Empress Ivini Islands. Unfortunately, they had failed to hold onto those islands, which were gradually retaken by the elves.

In the most recent battles for the Empress Ivini Islands, the Gray Dwarves had suffered repeated setbacks...

Even when the sea monsters summoned vast clouds of fog over the waters around the Empress Ivini Islands, they still failed to seize Queen Ivini Island from the Silver Moon Elves' Silver Pegasus Knight Order.

Marchio believed that from that point onward, the Gray Dwarves living in the Kui Island Sea had slowly begun to lose their glory.

These Gray Dwarves began suffering repeated defeats before the elven armies. By the time he led his fleet to reinforce the Kui Island Sea, the Kui Island Gray Dwarves had lost nearly a hundred thousand warriors in their battles against the Silver Moon Elves, along with almost a hundred of their most valuable Three-Masted Sailboats.

The loss of so many Three-Masted Sailboats was something