During this period, more than half of the Imperial Merchant ships on the West Coast of the Eastern Continent had vanished without a trace...
Imperial Merchants doing business on the West Coast of the Eastern Continent had nearly all fallen into a state of panic.
Rumors spread that the Half-Elf Army had been stationed in the Mensa Strait, intercepting passing Imperial Merchant ships to check how many Half-Elves were aboard and whether they had been abducted.
The merchants had heard that many Imperial Merchants had already been seized along with their ships by this Half-Elf Army for trafficking Half-Elves.
An Imperial Merchant ship sailed from north to south with its sails fully unfurled. At this time of year, the northeasterly winds blowing from the Frozen Sea could swiftly carry Imperial Merchant ships through the Mensa Strait to St. Margaret Port in the Eternal Night Forest, where the Dark Moon Elves lived.
The Captain of this merchant ship was also an Imperial Merchant.
The merchant ship had departed from Sloit Province of the Grimm Empire, sailed east along the boundary between the Frozen Sea and the Endless Sea, reached the West Coast of Durag's Knee, then continued south along the West Coast of the Eastern Continent...
The merchant ship finally passed the endless Black Gold Mountains along the West Coast.
That day, the crewman in the mainmast lookout platform shouted excitedly. When the Imperial Merchant Gesbani walked out of the captain's cabin, the two crewmen in the lookout platform excitedly cried out that there was a port dock in the bay ahead.
Gesbani hurried back into the captain's cabin and carefully measured the Navigation Chart he had bought at a high price with a tape measure. The first mate and second mate stood around him.
"Based on our sailing time, the