The Guard Fleet docked at a small island of modest size to rest for the night, then continued toward the southern waters at daybreak.
About three hours later, a black line marking land appeared on the distant sea.
"Leslie, this looks quite a bit bigger than you described in your letter." Xu Yi gazed at the distant land through his binoculars and could not help exclaiming, "With this much land, you can hardly call it an island anymore."
"In fact, it really is just an island." Leslie chuckled and swept his arm through a semicircle in the air. "We later explored all the way around it and found that the nearest other island was the one where we docked last night. So it really does sit all alone out here in the sea. Of course it can only count as an island."
"Then do you know exactly how large it is?" Xu Yi asked.
"I can't give you exact figures. If I had to say, let me think... probably several dozen times the size of Masur Island."
"And you still call that just an island?" Xu Yi glared at Leslie.
Masur Island was the largest island the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guards Fleet had discovered in the Candel Empire's southern waters, with an area of nearly twenty square kilometers.
If the island before them was several dozen times the size of Masur Island, did that not mean its area could approach a thousand square kilometers?
Although it could still be considered an island, one of that size had extraordinary significance.
Xu Yi raised his binoculars again to look at the approaching island, then sighed. "Leslie, I suddenly regret saying I'd put this island in your hands. An island this large must have abundant resources. I've practically handed you a mountain of