Roy had the Half-Elf interrogators question more than sixty Gray Dwarf officers in succession, but unfortunately, none of them revealed the whereabouts of the Imperial Merchant ships.
All the Three-Masted Sailboats sailed to Nantali Island and docked at Safe Harbor on Nantali's main island.
The Imperial Merchants had put up some shacks on the island. They were adequate for sheltering from rain and resting, but unsuitable for storing supplies.
There was a small stream on Nantali Island that often dried up. Only during the rainy season did its babbling waters flow into the sea.
There were hardly any trees on the island, only a few shrubs around the cliff faces. Cliffs surrounded the island, while more than ten square kilometers of gentle slopes lay above them. Those slopes were covered in Needle Fescue, and whenever the sea breeze blew, the waist-high grass rolled like waves of wheat...
According to the agreement with the tribal orcs, no land beyond the West Coast belonged to the orcs. Roy therefore occupied this place as a matter of course.
The Northern Army Fleet's Luyun Fortress, located north of the West Coast of Mensa Plain, had been razed by the Mine Guard Army and the White Sheep Tribe orcs. No force in the region could threaten the Mine Guard Army's Magic Airship fleet.
Roy planned to rest and refit on Nantali Island, mainly to repair the seventeen Three-Masted Sailboats as thoroughly as possible. Then, five Magic Airships would transport the four thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners back to Kui Island.
He did not dare let those four thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners return to Kui Island aboard the Three-Masted Sailboats. The journey would take more than five months.
If anything went wrong along the way, the Magic Airship fleet would have great difficulty rushing over to rescue