The battle in the Inland Sea would decide the fate of the Lordaeron Royal Fleet. If the war went badly, all of Kul Tiras's Inland Sea would fall.
If the Undead Scourge occupied the Inland Sea, the Royal Fleet would suffer along with it.
Since the fighting broke out, Garithos had gone forty straight hours without sleep.
With a business worth five hundred thousand gold coins and the lives of over two thousand naval soldiers at stake, Garithos had to make his decision before the war ended.
He now had two options before him.
First, if the battle was lost, the Kul Tiran Combined Fleet would suffer a crushing defeat, the Inland Sea's Industrial Zone would collapse on every front, and the undead army would finish Kul Tiras in one stroke.
To prepare for that possibility, Garithos had already planned an escape route.
While resting in Boralus, he had conducted some small trades with local merchants and learned that Kul Tiras's Inland Sea was not completely sealed off.
There was still an overland route through Tiragarde Sound to Freehold, the town where the Freehold pirates had once hidden.
After its redevelopment, Freehold had become a medium-sized seaport south of Boralus, dealing mainly in seafood and gems.
With Freehold serving as a ready-made port to the outside world, Garithos had purchased two wagon trains in Boralus to transport the gold stored aboard his ships.
Those five hundred thousand gold coins had come from the grain trade. Garithos could use the Scourge invasion of Kul Tiras as an excuse to pocket the Lordaeron Noble Group's money.
As for the Royal Fleet's warships docked in the harbor, they could not reach the open sea and were not worth clinging to.
When the time came, with over two thousand naval soldiers at his back