A Titled Knight Acting on a Whim

Southern Continent, Lobito Territory.

This was the Sirius Empire's last and largest colony on the Southern Continent, as well as one of the regions richest in natural resources such as minerals and timber across the entire Southern Continent.

After two centuries of exploration, proven reserves included approximately one billion carats of natural diamonds, 1.7 billion tons of iron ore, and 200 million tons of phosphate mine.

Its forests covered 53 million hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 35%. It was the Southern Continent's second-largest source of forestry resources, producing precious timber such as ebony, white sandalwood, rosewood, and mahogany.

It was a well-developed place with complete supporting industries, practically a treasure basin.

In the past, the Sirius Empire had kept it firmly in its own hands. No one had dared lay a finger on it. Even after their crushing defeat in the "Benin Sea Battle," Tulip, the victor, had not moved against Lobito.

However, those days of invulnerability were gone forever.

Led by a massive warship flying the long streamer of the "Galloping Cavalry Saber" and radiating crimson light from its entire hull, more than ten Sark Empire capital ships had surrounded Luanda Cape, the Sirius Navy's base in Lobito.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Orange-red cannon fire flashed incessantly across the sea.

Ignoring the various merchant ships fleeing in panic, the fleet formed a line-of-battle and unleashed a two-hour coordinated broadside against the coastal star fort.

They not only blasted the defensive works into ruins bit by bit, but also ground the Sirius People's pride completely into the mud.

Moreover, Legendary Battleship Crimson Dawn sailed as swiftly as dawn itself, theoretically capable of circling the equator within twenty-four hours.

No merchant ship or warship could escape its pursuit, nor could they take away a single coin that now belonged to