The person in question was Viscount Leslie.
Viscount Leslie had spent ten years on Paradise Island with the remaining members of the Stark Family, and had long since brought the entire island under his control.
With the support of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, Paradise Island had already developed a respectable magic industry sector. At Xu Yi's suggestion, Viscount Leslie had focused the island's development on shipbuilding and marine fisheries.
Paradise Island now had four ports and three shipyards, which could produce at least five Large Cargo Mana-Powered Ships and more than twenty Guard Frigates each year. Their output was even comparable to that of the shipyards at the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Main Base.
Most of these ships were supplied to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, while Viscount Leslie kept a smaller portion for his own use.
Equipped with shipboard military magic machinery supplied by the Xinfei Merchant Guild, Viscount Leslie's fleet had grown over the years into a formidable force of eight Large Cargo Mana-Powered Ships and twenty-seven Mana Guard Frigates.
Together with his smaller Freight Mana-Powered Ships, those eight Large Cargo Freight Mana-Powered Ships formed a fleet with tremendous transport capacity. It could handle not only trade between Paradise Island and the Sains Continent, but also shipping requests from many countries and merchant guilds on the Sains Continent.
The Leslie Merchant Guild's maritime shipping services were second in reputation only to those of the Xinfei Transport Guild. Even the Xinfei Merchant Guild sometimes hired its ships to help with sea freight.
It could be said that coming to Paradise Island had opened up a whole new world for Leslie, giving him ample room to put his abilities to use and realize his ambitions.
And he had performed exceptionally well, running Paradise Island in an orderly fashion.
The previous year, Xu