"Oh, this is killing me..."
Golden Fang watched the pirates excitedly unloading cargo at the port, then looked at the mountains of supplies already piled on the docks. His expression said only one thing...
He was questioning his entire existence!
He had barely woken up from his hangover when his creditor called and forcibly canceled his debt-the kind who would get angry if he insisted on paying.
While he was still dazed, wondering how to report this inexplicable development to his superiors, his men informed him that the fleet had returned.
Then he discovered that his fleet had undergone a spectacular transformation after heading out for a little opportunistic plundering.
He knew his own assets better than anyone. They had left with around a hundred second-rate warships. Now, counting the cargo ships, they had returned as a massive fleet of over five hundred vessels-a full fivefold increase!
If that alone was nothing special, the mountains of gold, silver, valuables, weapons, and equipment unloaded from the cargo ships left Golden Fang utterly unable to comprehend what was happening.
Those dazzling piles of sparkling little beauties... surely those weren't energy crystals?
Wait, why did that enormous beast being towed behind the fleet like a dead fish look so familiar?
One shocking sight after another shattered Golden Fang's worldview.
By the time his excited subordinates finished recounting the fleet's glorious achievements, the remaining fragments of his worldview had been ground into dust...
Of the seven big shots who could shake the entire Shattered Star Region with a stomp of their feet, his boss had killed two in one go?
Not only that, his fleet had plundered the home base of the wealthiest of them all, the Gold Coin Pirate Gang?
And then they had actually won the recognition of the other big shots,