Trade on Ship Island was extremely convenient.
Not only were there all kinds of goods plundered by pirates, but merchants also specifically transported cargo to Ship Island.
For example, the food, drinking water, and even women on Ship Island were specially shipped in by merchant vessels.
Building an Outpost Base did not require any special materials.
If high defensive power was required, however, wizardry runes had to be inscribed, which called for materials possessing elemental power.
In the Wizard World, these materials each had their own prices.
But in this plane, that was not the case.
The unique ocean environment of this plane had caused its extraordinary professions to lean toward harnessing the power of water elements.
Thus, materials of this kind were normally priced.
The seas of this plane abounded with water elements, but that did not mean other elemental powers were absent.
There were also quite a few materials containing other elemental powers, but their prices generally could not rise.
Charles sold off the plundered silk, even selling several merchant ships, leaving behind only a two-masted vessel.
Three-masted ships were too large and required too much manpower.
Though they had sails, as armed merchant ships, they could not sail very quickly.
Such ships held little meaning for pirates.
For pirates and navies alike, warship designs were still the most practical, as they sailed faster.
However, warships were very expensive, far more costly than merchant ships, and they were scarce.
Needless to say, the warships of the various island nations' navies rarely fell into pirate hands. Even when pirates possessed naval vessels,
they generally came from retired warships sold to merchants, who were then robbed by pirates.
This also meant that such warships were usually very old, weak in combat, costly to maintain, and plagued by all manner of