Slave Trade Route

West of Kui Island Dock, twenty three-masted sailboats seized from the Gray Dwarf Bandits were currently lined up outside the shipyard. Inside, elf crewmen worked day and night in shifts, repairing those vessels without pause.

At the same time, two three-masted sailboats were being modified. Since they had obtained a large number of Floating Devices from the Lost Sea, Roy had decided to convert all of those three-masted sailboats into Magic Airships.

Roy already possessed a sizable fleet: thirty-four Magic Airships and twenty-eight three-masted sailboats.

Most of the Magic Airships were serving on the Pattington Plane. Once the twenty-eight three-masted sailboats were fully repaired, they would also be converted into Magic Airships.

The Half-Elf shipwrights responsible for modifying the Magic Airships had been brought by Roy from the Pattington Island shipyard. They had extensive experience with such conversions...

Roy, Moira, Woods, Tiffany, and Sabrina sat on the deck of the Black Pearl, gathered around a round table.

A thick stack of sea charts drawn by Abbott lay on the table, nearly two hundred in total.

Roy planned to piece those charts together into one detailed map of the Endless Sea. The map was so huge that it occupied a large stretch of the Black Pearl's deck...

For the first time, Roy and the others clearly realized that the Endless Sea was several times larger than they had imagined.

For example, the waters around Kui Island and the Lost Sea, even extending eastward to the outer western edge of the Empress Ivini Islands, covered such a vast area, yet they were merely one corner of a single chart drawn by Abbott.

The waters of the Naga Empire were far larger than the entire Elf Continent...

For ships from the Grimm Empire to cross directly through the Endless Sea, they had to