Over the years, the Amazon Kingdom and the Goblin Kingdom, who had realized the importance of maritime trade, had no choice but to take the initiative to crack down on piracy. This allowed trade between the Northern and Southern Continents to regain some vitality.
The first princess' actions of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs not only made her own company infamous, but also affected the businesses of all the Amazon companies.
Nowadays, the merchant ships from the Northern Continent would rather be exploited by the cunning and greedy goblins than do business with the Amazons. Although the goblins were greedy, they still abided by the rules, unlike the Amazons, who worshipped pirates.
It was no wonder that Alcapar's eyes lit up when she heard Feng Chou say that there was business to be had. Once a company's reputation was ruined, it would be difficult to rebuild it.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that he wanted to establish a relationship with the seventh princess, Feng Chou wouldn't be willing to take the risk of doing business with the Amazons. In the Amazons' territory, where there were no rules to begin with, it was too risky to do business with the Amazons.
Of course, Feng Chou wasn't taking a risk for nothing. The information he bought from the Goblin Engineer Club showed that Princess Nala's company had never done anything unruly. As the Amazons' competitors, the goblins' information should be reliable.
After chatting with Alcapar for a while, Feng Chou stayed at the Battle Spear Tavern for the night.
To be honest, Feng Chou almost agreed to Alcapar's invitation to sleep with her in the big house. However, when he thought about how Amazons were just like the men of the Northern Continent, who treated sleeping with men as taking advantage of them, he retreated in defeat.
The next day, Feng Chou went to the tiefling kingdom's consulate in the south of the port and spent half a day in a bar owned by the tieflings.
He discovered that the tieflings had a high sense of identity as humans. Apart from their appearance, they weren't much different from humans. Even their sense of beauty was very similar to humans. In the tavern, a few tiefling female mercenaries expressed interest in Feng Chou.
On the morning of the third day, Feng Chou piloted his small fast sailboat and left the port.
After sailing the small sailboat into an uninhabited area, Feng Chou drove the small sailboat into the tower and teleported to an island nearby.
Qiankun Pagoda selected several islands that met Feng Chou's expectations.
Among these islands, Feng Chou was most satisfied with this island.
This island was located on the east-west route from the Northern Continent to the Southern Continent. It was located slightly to the west of the central part of the archipelago.
On the east-west route north of the equator, there were many islands and it was easy to resupply. However, on the east-west route south of the equator, the number of islands was much less, especially in the middle of the route which was tens of thousands of kilometers. This archipelago called Dylan Islands was the only resupply point on this route.
The Meredith Kingdom, together with the Church of Wealth, the Tailun City Alchemy Club, the Storm Commerce Union, the Meredith Shipping Association, the East Coast City Chamber of Commerce, and other sea merchant forces of the Northern Continent, built a permanent supply port on the Dylan Islands.
The distribution of the Dylan Islands was from the southwest to the northeast. It was as if a giant dragon had charged into the ocean from the southwest.
The largest island on the island chain was located at the northernmost end of the island chain. This main island happened to be located in the middle of the east-west current.
This island, named Dylan Island, was very large. The area of this island took up a quarter of the area of the dozens of islands in the entire island chain. It made the entire island chain look top-heavy.
The permanent supply port built by the Meredith Kingdom, together with the major forces of the Northern Continent, was located on Dylan Island.
Dylan Island was a long, irregular island. The direction of the island was the same as the direction of the island chain, from the northeast to the southwest. On the southeast edge of the island, there was a mountain range as long as the island. On the northwest side, there was a fine hilly belt. There was a long and narrow plain in between the two.
There was a gap in the southwest section of the island. Only the mountain range on the southwest side was connected. This gap was an excellent natural harbor.
Dylan Port was located in this harbor.
The length of the entire Dylan Island was about three hundred kilometers. The average width was about fifty to sixty kilometers. The long and narrow plain in the middle of the island took up nearly a quarter of the entire island. The rivers on the island were abundant, and the land was fertile. In addition to the excellent Dylan Port, it was an excellent island that was worth developing.
If this island was fully developed, it could even build a small duchy. However, due to the rejection of the gods of the Southern Continent, the joint forces of the Northern Continent did not dare to fully develop it. They could only do it on a small scale.
Other than Dylan Island, there were more than twenty islands with an area of more than one square kilometer that were rich in freshwater. There were dozens of smaller freshwater islands. These islands had become the hiding places of the pirates.
As Dylan Island was the only supply point on the sea route of thirty to forty thousand kilometers, the merchant ships that came and went had to stop here to resupply. This also made it the best hunting ground for the pirates.
The merchant ships that came and went between the Northern and Southern Continents were not escorted by warships. This was because the main gods of the Southern Continent, including the Storm Goddess Hippolyte, the Ocean Goddess Umberlee, and the God of Engineering Magrubier, did not want the gods of the Northern Continent to extend their hands into the Southern Continent.
The name of the Storm Goddess was originally widely spread in the coastal areas of the Northern Continent. However, in the dispute between the gods after the Arcane War, Hippolyte was driven out of the Northern Continent.
The Ocean Goddess was even more miserable. Her main force was originally in the Northern Continent. She was the main faith of the murlocs, sailors, and coastal residents of the Northern Continent. However, she was driven out of the Northern Continent by the newly risen Ocean Goddess, Medis. She had no choice but to bring the remaining murlocs and flee to the Southern Continent. They sought protection from the Storm Goddess and struggled at death's door. Her divine power had also fallen from a great divine power to a mid-level divine power.
These two gods were wary of the gods of the Northern Continent. They were even filled with hatred. However, these two gods happened to control the two deadly domains of the storm and the ocean. If they were not willing, there would definitely be no ship that could reach the Southern Continent from the Northern Continent.
The reason why the trade between the two continents was not cut off was that maritime trade was of great benefit to the Amazon Kingdom, the private land of the Storm Goddess.
However, armed merchant ships were already the limit of the Storm Goddess' tolerance. She would never allow the warships of the Northern Continent to come to the Southern Continent.
Even in Port Dylan, the people of the Northern Continent did not dare to build temples, dock warships, and manage the city in the name of an official. They could only use the Merchant Alliance Council.
What was worse was that most of the pirates of the Southern Continent were believers of the Storm Goddess. Their actions were even rewarded by the Destroyer. This caused the pirates on this route to be extremely rampant.
For merchant ships, other places were still manageable. After all, the entire ocean current had a bandwidth of three thousand kilometers. On the vast sea, the chances of avoiding the pirates were very high. However, in Port Dylan, as long as the pirates held onto the sea at both ends of Port Dylan, they would be able to wait and hunt the merchant ships.
The island that Feng Chou had his eyes on was located at the southwest end of the Dylan Islands.
The closer the Dylan Islands were to the northeast end, the denser the islands were, and the larger the area of the islands were. After the chain of islands extended more than a thousand kilometers to the southwest, there were only a few dozen square kilometers of small islands left. They quickly disappeared into the vast sea.
As the chain of islands extended to this point, it had already left the range of the ocean current. Therefore, no one cared about where the chain of islands disappeared in the end.
It was not until a few years ago that a merchant ship lost its way in the storm that they discovered that the chain of islands had suddenly appeared on the sea after disappearing for five to six hundred kilometers in the southeast direction. Furthermore, the islands on the chain of islands gradually increased in size. Finally, at the end of the chain of islands that was close to three thousand kilometers away, the second largest island of the chain of islands appeared. It was a large island that was close to five thousand square kilometers.
The island that Feng Chou had his eyes on was the second largest island at the southernmost end of the Dylan Island chain.
This large island was more than a thousand kilometers away from the ocean current. No merchant ships passed by it, and no pirates paid attention to it. If Feng Chou could build a small port here, it could be used as a base for him to stay in. It could also be used as an excellent supply point for him to travel between the Northern and Southern Continents. This way, he could avoid the death trap that was Dylan Island.
However, according to the information obtained by the Goblin Engineer Club, there was a group of green dragon descendants living on this island. Moreover, it was very likely that there was a green dragon living there!
Feng Chou teleported to a place not too far away from the island. He cast an invisibility spell on himself and flew toward the island.
Feng Chou flew several thousand meters into the air above the island and lowered his head to observe the island.
This was a long island that resembled a pig's kidney. The direction of the island was similar to the direction of the Dylan Islands. One end of the pig's kidney was facing the northeast, while the other end was facing the southwest. The outer circumference of the pig's kidney was facing the southeast.
There was a mountain range along the shore of the island in the direction of the outer circumference of the pig's kidney. This mountain range separated from the island at the southwest end of the island and extended into the sea. It formed a triangular bay with the island's shore.
There was a small river five to six meters wide at the end of the bay that flowed into the bay along the foot of the mountain.
Feng Chou thought to himself as he looked at the azure waters of the bay. If this bay could be modified, it could probably become a passable port.
Feng Chou flew toward the center of the island with great satisfaction after observing for a while.
The highest peak of the mountain range was in the center. There was a large altar at the foot of the mountain range. That was where the village of the green dragon descendants was located.
The green dragon descendants were similar to the green dragons. They had a strong natural affinity with the natural and water elemental elements. Typically speaking, once the green dragon descendants reached adulthood, they would master the corresponding nature and water elemental spells. They were natural dragon warlocks.
Just like the nature elves who had a natural affinity with the natural elemental elements, the green dragon descendants liked to live in treehouses.
This Green Dragon village was actually made up of over a hundred giant trees. Each tree had a Green Dragon family living on it.
If it wasn't for the large stone altar at the center of the village, it would be impossible to tell that it was a green dragon village from the sky.
Feng Chou carefully circled around the village and landed in the forest behind a mountain peak. He climbed up the mountain from the forest and looked at the village from afar.
As dragon descendants, the green dragon descendants inherited many dragon talents. For example, "Eye of Truth". As long as one was an adult green dragon descendant, they would have this talent. No invisibility, illusion, or transformation could escape the eyes of the green dragon descendants.
The altar at the center of the village was a structure similar to the Mayan pyramids made of large stone strips. There were four wide stairs on the four sides of the structure that led to the top of the tower.
There was a thirty-meter-square platform at the top of the altar.
At the bottom of the stairs on the side of the pyramid that faced the mountain peak, there was a path paved with stone strips. This path passed through the village and led to the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, it turned into stone stairs that led to the peak.
Huge trees surrounded the altar, and on each tree was a treehouse made of living branches. Vaguely, some green figures could be seen moving in the woods.
After observing from afar for a while, Feng Chou followed the direction of the stone stairs and made his way to the peak.
Feng Chou followed the stone stairs into the forest several dozen meters away from the stairs and made his way to the peak.
When he was a third of the way to the peak, a large stone platform appeared in front of the stone stairs. There was a large cave at the bottom of the platform.
Feng Chou circled to the top of the steep slope and peered at the platform below from afar.
On the platform, a dozen or so Green Dragon Descendants were standing guard with shields, axes, and hammers in their hands. A squad of a dozen Green Dragon Descendants were patrolling the area between the cave and the platform.
Seeing this scene, how could Feng Chou not know that there really was a green dragon on this island?
Dragon descendants were basically slaves created by the dragons on purpose.
No one knew when it started, but the dragons had learned to use intelligent creatures to improve their living conditions.
They would kidnap the females of intelligent creatures and transform into the males of the intelligent creatures. They would impregnate these females and create dragon descendants. When these dragon descendants grew up, they would become their natural slaves.
The dragons would enslave these dragon descendants to clean their lairs, wash their bodies, act as guards, hunt, and even cook for them.
Feng Chou observed for a while and made his way down the slope to the platform below.
Feng Chou arrived at the top of the cave and took the opportunity when the patrolling green dragon guards walked up to the platform to cast Group Suggestion.
Group Suggestion was only a 6th-tier control spell in the mage's spell list, but it was an 8th-tier spell in the innate spell list of the golden dragons.
In fact, the origin of this spell was the dragon's innate spell. It had only become a 6th-tier spell after repeated improvements by the mages.
However, there was still a difference between a 6th-tier spell and an 8th-tier spell. In order to lower the casting level of this spell, the mages had reduced the power and range of the spell.
The 8th-tier "Group Suggestion" of the dragon's innate spell was far more powerful and effective than the 6th-tier "Group Suggestion" of the mages.
After Feng Chou released a level 8 'Suggestion' spell from his golden dragon bloodline, all the green dragon descendants left their posts at the same time and walked down the mountain.
Feng Chou had hinted to these dragon descendants that their master was about to wake up. They were going down the mountain to prepare for the arrival of their master at the altar.
Feng Chou casually walked into the cave after using the suggestion spell to distract the green dragon guards.
He walked about seventy to eighty meters in the cave before his eyes suddenly opened up. A huge cave about a hundred meters square appeared in front of him.
Feng Chou was almost blinded by the golden light in the cave.