That was right—Levis was preparing to openly bait the pirates, and the bait was Luskan's deep-diving ghost pirate ships.
Of course, there were many pirate ships in the Sword Coast, with vastly different affiliations. Quite a few "pirate ships" were simply other merchant vessels moonlighting as pirates.
But none of that mattered to Levis.
A pirate ship was a pirate ship—he would seize every one that came his way.
He was already worried that his own fleet did not have enough ships. Even if he had no use for one, dismantling it would at least save some materials. And if nothing else, he could refit it and sell it.
Heading south, surely they would run into Luskan's new pirate ships sooner or later, right?
Just kidding. While plenty of pirate ships drifted across the Sword Coast, it was not as though one voyage would run into several waves of them. Otherwise, what the hell would Northlands merchants even be sailing out for?
Pirates in the usual sense operated medium and small vessels with one or two masts, and their Combat Power was nothing special.
That was why they chose their targets carefully. Picking on the weak while fearing the strong was the norm.
At the sight of warships from the various city-states, they would flee at the first whiff of trouble.
But whenever they occasionally obtained information about a high-value target, they would swarm in like bees!
That was precisely the point Levis intended to exploit.
To some extent, pirate organizations also indirectly drove the survival of the fittest in maritime trade, accelerating the evolution of seagoing vessels.
Merchant houses that could stay in business for the long haul usually had a trick or two up their sleeves.
Either they had powerful backing and abundant wealth, making everyone wary of