The fleet left Tyron City and moved along the southwest coastline. The manors and villas on the coast were gradually replaced by heavily fortified castles, and the farmlands gradually became sparse.
After sailing along the coastline for three days, the fleet arrived at a place called Razor Harbor.
This was a huge military fortress. The Seventh Fleet of Tyron City, the Third Fleet of Tyron City, the Seventh Legion of Tyron City, and several other land and sea troops were stationed in the fortress. The mission of these troops was to prevent the lizardmen kingdom in the southern part of the Dark Forest from bypassing the defensive line by sea and plundering the human territory behind the defensive line.
The fleet replenished their water and food at the military port and rested for the night. They set off again early the next morning.
The atmosphere of the fleet that set off again became tense, because they would no longer be in human territory after passing through Razor Harbor.
The southern part of the Dark Forest was the territory of the lizardmen.
The lizardmen were an ancient species with a weak bloodline of dragons.
They were born as Level 3 creatures, similar to the gnolls. However, they were more intelligent and organized than the gnolls.
There were two lizardmen kingdoms in the southern part of the Dark Forest. In the east, which was closer to human territory, was the Green Dragon Lizardmen Kingdom, while in the west was the Black Dragon Lizardmen Kingdom.
The lizardmen had a weak dragon bloodline, so they produced many warlocks. There was a religious organization known as the "Dragon Cult" that was popular among this intelligent species. The members of this religion worshipped dragons as gods and tried to activate the dragon bloodline hidden in their bodies through a ritual of dragon worship.
In the Dragon Lizardmen Kingdom, some dragons with the same bloodline as them were worshiped.
The lizardmen's shipbuilding technology was very backward. They could only build medium-sized sailboats that were 20 to 30 meters long and operated in the coastal waters. Therefore, under normal circumstances, they wouldn't dare to plunder a powerful fleet consisting of hundreds of warships and armed merchant ships. However, if they could persuade the dragons they raised, they would dare to use their sailboats to plunder large fleets.
In order to avoid provoking the greed of the green lizardmen, the fleet began to move away from the coastline and into the deep sea after leaving Razor Harbor.
The fleet sailed for about two weeks in the deep blue sea thousands of kilometers away from land. Then, they turned west and approached the coast.
After a day of sailing, Feng Chou saw the light of a distant lighthouse in the darkness of the early morning.
Based on Locke's memories, Feng Chou knew the light came from Dongzhang Port.
The shape of Salem's Northern Continent looked like a reverse comma. At the southern end of the continent, the continent narrowed into a long isthmus. This isthmus was only a few hundred kilometers wide, but it was thousands of kilometers long.
Originally, this isthmus was the territory of the Green Dragon Lizardmen. In order to open up the sea route to the west coast, the believers of the Ocean God landed at the north end of the isthmus and built castles. They then connected the castles with long walls and finally formed a barrier that sealed off the entire isthmus.
After that, the believers of the Sea God built two military ports at the east and west ends of the stronghold to provide naval support for military operations on land.
These two harbors were today's East Stronghold Port and West Wall Port.
After building a barrier and cutting off the connection between the isthmus and the mainland, the believers of the God of the Ocean gradually cleared out the lizardmen and other wild creatures on the isthmus. They built castles on this narrow piece of land, cultivated land, and built the Kingdom of Meredith today.
After the fleet safely arrived at East Stronghold Port, everyone could not help but heave a sigh of relief. They were finally absolutely safe here.
After half a month of sailing, the crew members were a little tired. The fleet's flagship announced that they would be resting for two days. As usual, Feng Chou divided the crew, guards, and cannoneers into two shifts, with each shift taking a day off.
After the first shift of crew members who were on holiday got off the ship cheering, Feng Chou arranged for a portion of the crew members who were not on holiday to get off the ship to purchase food and water.
Feng Chou was busy all the way until the afternoon before he finally settled everything on the ship. He entrusted the ship to the second mate and got off the ship alone to leave the dock.
Feng Chou took a rental carriage and arrived at the most prosperous Victory Square in East Stronghold Port.
The port and city of East Stronghold Port were divided into the north and south. The northern half was the military zone and military port where several of Meredith's main legions and fleets were stationed.
The southern half of the city was the commercial zone, and Victory Square was in the center of the southern commercial zone.
After arriving at Victory Square, Feng Chou checked into the famous luxurious hotel, the Captain's Hotel. He extravagantly rented an independent villa in the hotel.
Under the service of a beautiful and gentle maid, Feng Chou took a comfortable hot bath and received a massage that was just right. He also had the most luxurious dinner of his life.
After that, he sent all the attendants and maids out of the villa, claiming that he wanted to have a good night's sleep and would not allow any noise.
After chasing away the maids and attendants, Feng Chou left a spatial beacon in his bedroom and took out his Advanced Teleportation Wand. With a flash of magic light, he disappeared from the room.
A moment later, Feng Chou appeared in Patrick's magic laboratory.
Feng Chou opened the door to a lounge next to the laboratory, and a spatial portal appeared above the large bed in the lounge. Count Patrick, who was sleeping soundly, gently passed through the portal from the Qiankun Pagoda and fell onto the large, soft bed without waking up.
After releasing Count Patrick from the Universe of the Tower, Feng Chou did not hesitate to activate the Advanced Teleportation Wand and teleport him out of the laboratory.
During this time, Qiankun Pagoda had constructed a similar illusion in the Universe of the Tower based on Feng Chou's experiences outside the tower. In other words, Count Patrick would think that he had experienced everything that Feng Chou had experienced with his identity outside the tower.
He would not know that he had been captured and imprisoned. He would think that Ren Xiaosu was the one who had organized this voyage and had sent his new vampire derivative, Leo, to be Baron Leo's first mate.
He would also remember that this new vampire derivative had been squeezed dry by Ren Xiaosu. All of his wealth had been invested into this voyage.
Not long after Feng Chou teleported away, Count Patrick, who was lying on the bed, slowly woke up. He did not feel anything strange at all. He got up from the bed and walked out of the lounge, looking at the laboratory. It was still the same as when he had finished his experiment last night. He remembered that he had completed a very interesting magic experiment that had verified some of his speculations about arcanists. Although it was only an intermediate magic experiment, it had great significance.
He stroked his beard in satisfaction and walked to the teleportation portal. He teleported to the hall on the first floor, opened the laboratory's defenses, and walked out …
The reason why Feng Chou had released Count Patrick was because there were teleportation spells in this world, such as Advanced Teleportation. It would take a fleet more than half a year to reach Sutton, which was a hundred thousand kilometers away by sea. However, with Advanced Teleportation, one could reach Sutton in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, it was not to say that he had succeeded in taking the Patrick away. If the vampire family discovered any clues, they could use Teleportation to intercept him.
If he really wanted to take all the goods on this ship for himself, the best way was to not let the other party discover any clues.
This was why Feng Chou had taken the risk to release Patrick.