Menilman led the fleet home, and Domitian and Sabastine beside her both wore pleased expressions.
Domitian had brought some members of the Orc Assassin Alliance to join Menilman, hoping that The Empire's First Rose would give him the chance to fully realize his ambitions.
Sabastine was a female pirate. Back then, Zimmerman had won her over, and when he led everyone to join Fars, she had been quite happy about it. After all, how could being a pirate compare to becoming a naval officer of a great empire?
But Sabastine had not expected that after Zimmerman returned to Fars, he would no longer concern himself with the pirates he had subdued. They were frequently suppressed within the Imperial Navy. The female pirate had a fiery temperament, so she simply conspired with a group of pirates, broke away from the Imperial Navy of Fars, and returned to her old trade.
Unlike Domitian, she had not joined Menilman voluntarily. Menilman was also being suppressed in the Imperial Navy and had been forced to seek supplies on her own. The Empire's First Rose found Sabastine's hideout and directly wiped it out. Sabastine was subdued by Menilman in a duel. As a pirate, she had never particularly cared who her master was, so she surrendered at once.
After Sabastine surrendered, she had worried that Menilman would not be able to hold on. After all, The Empire's First Rose had been reduced to robbing pirates. Just how dire could her circumstances be?
But the female pirate had not expected Menilman to suddenly obtain a vast amount of supplies from Silver Doveburg. Later, she even gained the small Inglima city of Cappadocia as a base. Not only was the base commercially prosperous, it also provided Menilman with nearly twenty ships, causing her strength to expand dramatically