At first, Xia Nan had treated this trip to Wildberry Cliff as nothing more than a temporary mission before the Moon Tide Feast, undertaken solely for the Proof of Unweariedness in collector Auriye's possession.
He had not expected to gain much from it.
But when he boarded the return ship with Auriye's three crates of mission goods and reviewed what he had gained from the journey, he discovered something unexpected.
If everything he had acquired were converted into Gold Coin, the income from this temporary mission had actually surpassed what he would earn from taking a proper commission with the Oath of Vengeance Blades.
Leaving aside the miscellaneous spoils, the three green-quality Enchanted Equipment items alone could probably sell for three or four thousand Gold Coin at average market prices.
After all, aside from the Corroding Crescent, the other two pieces had excellent effect modifiers. They would be considered top-tier even among fine-quality equipment, while the Scale Breath Horn was a spellcasting item and thus worth even more than ordinary equipment of the same type.
There was also one more thing worth mentioning.
Before leaving Wildberry Cliff, Xia Nan had specifically instructed the merchant ship to sail around to the other side of the island, where the pirates had built their temporary harbor.
The Tide Retreat Gang members originally stationed there had naturally been cleared out by Xia Nan beforehand.
That left the ships at the dock ownerless, becoming part of Xia Nan's spoils.
Unfortunately, the Tide Retreat Gang was merely a small-to-medium ordinary criminal gang in Barracuda Bay, with limited funds. They naturally could not possess a luxurious fleet.
Moreover, because they were a gang, they could not pool resources like an adventurer squad to continually modify and strengthen a single Pirate Ship.
As a result, these pirate ships