Divine Abilities! First Update

Overseas Islands, Port Nyanzaru.

Getting to the Abyss was quite a hassle, but coming back was easy.

Soren had quietly left a Teleportation Beacon on the Abyss's third layer, then used Plane Shift to return directly to his laboratory in Port Nyanzaru. But he had barely arrived when he received bad news: one of his fleets had encountered a terrible storm. Some ships had sunk, others were missing, and only one had safely reached the Eastern Waters.

Storms were unavoidable at sea, and shipwrecks were nothing unusual.

But Soren had close ties with the Goddess of the Sea. Nothing this severe had happened along the South Coast, yet he had now lost an entire fleet in the Time of Troubles Waters, and a pirate boss was missing, his fate unknown. It was a serious problem. He would have to pull together another fleet to keep the immensely profitable eastern trade running, and someone would have to replace the missing pirate leader. Hundreds of men had been lost, many of them trained veterans. He would probably have to draw reinforcements from Port Nyanzaru.

The Eastern Waters were not Soren's territory, after all, so his escort fleet had been equipped to warship standards.

So many people had died.

Their families needed looking after, too. Soren had long since established a compensation system. Many pirates had no families, but the sailors' and merchants' dependents still needed support.

Fortunately, Port Nyanzaru was wealthy. Otherwise, compensating so many people would have been a serious burden.

A day passed in the blink of an eye.

Soren heard about the Fallen Witch's experiment. He had no real objection, so long as nothing went wrong.

He had accumulated a great deal of Divine Power Value lately!

The strength of his faith was growing. The believers in Port Nyanzaru