At sea, the importance of a Navigator was obvious, especially to Pirates.
The Kronos Kingdom could certainly provide weather forecasts, but it chose not to.
Its most advanced navigation equipment was fitted only to Kingdom Navy warships.
Even its basic navigation technology was a breakthrough that stunned the entire sea.
And the Kronos Kingdom was uncompromising about it.
A Navigation Device cost twenty million Beli.
That price was not expensive, considering what the device could do.
People would have bought it even at four or five times the price.
Twenty million Beli was practically a bargain.
But that bought only one year of use.
After that, users had to pay another five million Beli every year.
Otherwise, the Navigation Device would shut down automatically and stop working.
In this field, the Kronos Kingdom held a complete monopoly.
It had done more than crack the sea's chaotic magnetic fields.
The Kronos Kingdom also had the most complete Sea Charts in the world, more comprehensive even than the World Government's.
Mobius's voyages across the Four Seas had helped.
But the foundation was the Kronos Kingdom's vast global trade network, combined with its intelligence operations.
At the heart of it all were Satellites hanging a hundred kilometers above the sea, near the edge of space, helping the Kronos Kingdom monitor the waters below.
That was why no one could copy the technology.
The Satellites were the key.
Navigation at sea was just one application of Satellite technology.
Pirate crews needed it, but so did navies, merchants across the seas, and countless other powers.
The technology earned the Kronos Kingdom tens of billions in profit each year, if not more.
The World Government's Heavenly Tribute paled in comparison.
At a glance, an Eternal Pose might seem able to serve the same purpose.
But anyone