Feng Chou teleported back to Green Dragon Island and patrolled the skies above the island before returning to the Wizard Tower.
He summoned the main officials of the island at the Wizard Tower and inquired about the situation of the territory. After making some arrangements, he teleported away again.
However, Chapman was not among the officials that Feng Chou summoned …
When Feng Chou reappeared, he had already arrived at a seaside villa in the villa district south of the new port area of Tailun City.
The location of this villa was not considered good. It was close to a medium-sized harbor to the north.
Feng Chou appeared in a spacious study on the third floor of the villa's main building.
His old butler, Mr. Chapman, was standing at the door of the study meticulously, quietly waiting for his arrival.
Chapman had bought this villa from Tailun City under Feng Chou's authorization.
The harbor beside the villa had also been bought together with this villa.
At this moment, there were twenty-five identical large ships docked at the harbor. Looking at the long and narrow ships, the bridge at the front of the ship, and the large chimney behind the bridge, they were the magical steam-powered merchant ships produced by Qiankun Pagoda.
Over the years, Feng Chou would add one or two ships to the fleet every year. In seven or eight years, the fleet, which originally had only ten ships, had grown to its current size.
These twenty-five merchant ships were all magical steam-powered hybrid ships that had been modified twice. Even the original "Pioneer Knight" and "Warrior" had been replaced.
No one knew where Feng Chou's magical steam-powered ships with excellent performance were manufactured. People, including Feng Chou's subordinates, were all guessing what kind of terrifying organization was hiding behind the master of Green Dragon Island.
Over the years, the Green Dragon Island fleet was no longer unknown. Three years ago, it had a fierce battle with the Black Water Pirates in the waters northwest of Golden Port, causing this low-profile fleet to become famous.
In this battle, the Blackwater pirates gathered hundreds of small and medium-sized magic energy steam hybrid warships and ambushed Feng Chou's fleet.
It had to be mentioned that this' goblin version of magic-steam hybrid warship 'that had only begun to appear in large numbers in the past decade or so was the result of the' large-scale goblin magic array 'project by Moorsock, the goblin engineer under Feng Chou.
This technology allowed the goblin steamships to transform from shoddy coastal ships into excellent warships. It was an epoch-making contribution to the goblins.
Unfortunately, its inventor had no choice but to conceal his identity and live under the protection of the non-humankind.
The reason why the Blackwater Pirates adopted this tactic was that they had already experienced the terrifying firepower of Feng Chou's fleet in some previous harassment battles.
The tactic of the Blackwater pirates was to first use a dozen or so fast ships to harass Feng Chou's fleet and lure them to chase after them.
The years of smooth sailing and undefeated victories had caused the shrewd and seasoned captain and Captain Haddock to lose the vigilance they should have. They set their sights on the dozen or so fast ships of the pirates and planned to capture them.
These advanced magic energy steam hybrid warships might not have a large tonnage, but they were not cheap on the market. Every one of them was worth tens of millions of crowns. If they could capture these ships, it would be a massive fortune. According to the rules, half of these captured ships would belong to the crew, and the other half would belong to the two captains.
That would be a tempting fortune of thirty to forty million crowns.
However, the two of them had forgotten that the fleet beneath their feet was worth tens of times, no, a hundred times more than those pirate ships!
The Green Dragon Island fleet was lured to the side of a small island by the dozen pirate ships. The moment the fleet passed by the island, over a hundred similar small ships surged out from behind it.
These ships were no slower than Feng Chou's merchant ships. They quickly surrounded Feng Chou's fleet. The cannons on Feng Chou's merchant ships did not even have time to fire a few shots before a brutal gang war broke out.
Fortunately, Feng Chou had always spared no effort in the arming of his own fleet.
At the time, the Green Dragon Island fleet only had nineteen merchant ships, and each ship had eight hundred crew members. Among these crew members, only two hundred were sailors, boilermakers, engineers, navigation mages, lookouts, and other various types of crew members. The other six hundred were merchant ship guards, armed to the teeth.
When Feng Chou's fleet had recruited commoners over the years, they did not reject any of them. However, they only recruited elite sailors. Thus, the average level of the guards on these ships was as high as Level-9. Moreover, almost half of them were powerful Green Dragon descendants. On each ship, there were fifty to sixty high-grade Professionals above Level-11 in the guards, and about five Masters above Level-15!
These guards were all armed to the teeth by Feng Chou, who owned the super alchemy factory Qiankun Pagoda.
Even so, it was still not enough to deal with the Blackwater Pirates who had been plotting for a long time. This was because there were hundreds of Goblin Magic Mechs on those wolf-like small speedy warships.
The challenge rating of the goblins' magic mechs was as high as Level 14. It would probably take a fully-equipped Level 16 dragonkin champion to barely deal with one. Hundreds of these magic mechs were equivalent to hundreds of master-class champions. In addition to the large number of normal pirates, the guards on the nineteen merchant ships would definitely not be able to hold them off.
At the time, the old captain had already sent a distress signal to Feng Chou, but help had not appeared. Just as they were about to lose all hope, the top of the bridge of the nineteen merchant ships suddenly opened up. A kind of spider skeleton golem the size of a warhorse surged out from the top of the bridge, and then pounced on the goblins boarding the ships from above.
These skeletal spiders were actually a variant of the skeleton golems. Feng Chou had specially designed them for Qiankun Pagoda to adapt to naval warfare. When these golems were in the water, they could spit out high-pressure water like squid and swim with their eight long legs. Once on land, their eight limbs would become eight long spider-like legs, allowing them to move like spiders.
Over the years, Feng Chou had not stopped trading with the Yugoloths. It was just that the frequency and scale of the transactions were strictly controlled by him.
Therefore, Feng Chou had traded with the Yugoloths for a lot of flesh and bones produced by demons and devils.
He stuffed these materials into Qiankun Pagoda, and Qiankun Pagoda turned these massive amounts of flesh and bones into skeleton golems.
At present, Feng Chou had more than two thousand skeleton golems under his command. Most of them were spider-shaped golems, and he had hidden hundreds of spider-shaped golems on each ship.
In fact, when Feng Chou received the old captain's message, he had already teleported to the vicinity of the battlefield. However, he did not join the battle, and instead hid in the dark to observe.
The spider-shaped golems that suddenly joined the battle were released by Feng Chou when he saw the opportunity.
The challenge rating of the skeleton golems was level 12. Although Feng Chou's spider-shaped golems looked different, they were still skeleton golems in essence, so their challenge rating was still level 12.
A challenge rating of level 12 skeleton golems against a challenge rating of level 14 goblin magic mecha would require about five of them to deal with one.
When the fearless skeleton golems swarmed forward and entangled the goblin magic mecha, the scales of victory finally tilted towards Feng Chou's fleet.