The Garrote Pirate Crew's publicly known lair was not exactly a secret.
In fact, many pirate crews' lairs were not much of a secret to fellow pirates.
On Ship Island, many pirates came and went.
Whenever Storm Month arrived, some pirates were forced to return to the mainland, or to fishing villages in some island nation.
During Storm Month, they were ordinary fishermen.
Others followed their pirate crews back to their lairs.
The Garrote Pirate Crew itself had two lairs. The publicly known one had never been deliberately concealed by the Garrote Pirate Crew of old.
Pirates rarely robbed other pirates. There was little profit in it, while they could lose quite a few men instead.
Robbing one's peers was the worst kind of business, especially when those peers were pirates.
Unless those pirates had just successfully looted a merchant ship. Only then were the returns from robbing them relatively substantial.
Pirates returning to their lairs, however, were all poor as church mice. Even if you won, there was nothing much to gain.
For pirates, even attacking a lair was usually done out of vengeance.
But pirates had too many enemies. If they could settle a grudge face-to-face, they did so. If they could not, few would go so far as to find the other party's lair and start a fight.
Marcus sent men to investigate the Garrote Pirate Crew's lair, and they soon learned its location.
But they did not rush to move.
The Bone Anchor Pirate Crew was a highly patient pirate crew.
Marcus was even more so.
"If it really was the Undertow Pirate Crew that struck at the Claw Pirate Crew."
"Their captain, as a Tidal Priest, definitely would not sell the Demonbone Ship blueprint!"
"He might even purchase materials himself and seek out shipwrights to