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16-27 Garleon Union (3)

Satou here Speaking of aquarium, you may believe that dolphins are the star of the show, but I don't think you could dish speeds underwater contrary to their looks, and the cute penguins and their behavior

That reminds me, I think my childhood friend ith me said that they wanted to eat fried prahen they saw spiny lobsters inside the water tank

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"『Command an army, and demonstrate your power』, is it--"

On our way back from Garleon Temple, I told what the trial was about to Mia, Lady Karina and princess Sistina who came with lasses sparkled for an instant there

Come to think of it, feels like it's been a while since I saw her wearing glasses

"Mwu, sea"

Mia pointed out that fact to princess Sistina while pointing her finger at the sea

"Oh right My golems can't float on water, can they"

"But they can help defending the coasts I can also prepare wooden gole to let theenerally not suited for co prowess far surpasses your average soldier, it should work fine against pirates

"I also want to take part in it desuwa!"

"Agreed"

Mia nodded to reply Lady Karina

Unlike princess Sistina, Lady Karina who specializes in close-quarter coh-powered artificial spirits aren't the type that can lead an ar Karina-sauard unit"

"Yes, bring it on desuwa!"

Soldiers' o up with her looks

"Can I ask Mia to coes in naval battles?"

"Nn, ork hard"

I pat Mia who puffs out her chest while snorting, and we go to board the airship

First of all, let's get a grasp of the situation

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"Satou-sama, no ships or people found in the airspace and sea surface around us"

"Thank you"

I juoing out for a bit Stay in the air for a while"

"Roger!"

After telling that to the saluting brownie, I' Flash Drive

I went around Garleon Union's countries and the surrounding ones one by one and used [All Map Exploration] ic to collect inforht"

There are more than 100 ships of various sizes, and each has 10 to 100 pirates on board

I guess a group of a several thousands pirates is enough to fight a country

However,alone, only a few of theroup of three or roups, 15-30 and 3-7, the for pirate is level 43, even Lady Karina can win if they act alone

The pirates mostly consist of huillmen, and not a lot ofaround the oceans in a fleet of ships, or staying at independent towns and settleroups of islands or areas of oceans with lots of reefs tooff pursuers easier

"And the Skeleton Archduke is--there it is"

The one who has that title is a ship captain of the flagship of a fleet of sly low at 24

He's probably the type that coth itself is low

Ilook more like an arh considering his skills; Deception, Negotiation, Persuasion, Threat, Coercion et all, he doesn't see things?"

About 30 of the pirate ships are heading toward the port where the Skeleton Archduke's ship is anchored

Have they really joined forces, and do they really intend to attack Garleon Union?

"As for Garleon Union military forces--"

They have a lot of merchant ships, but not a whole lot of pure battle ships

After leaving out the sgling activities, there's only around 60 e ships equipped with mana furnaces and mana cannons Garleok City itself only has nine of those

There are some excellent soldiers and commanders whose levels exceed 30, but they're few and far between, le digit level

As for uard merchant ships, more than half of the offense, and there are even ships with active pirates working part-tialley boats and galley ships, only a few are equipped with uard ships in total in the Garleon Union

The her than the pirate's on average, but even the best one is only level 31, so you can say that their individual strength is lower

If they bring the whole arainst the pirates

As long as they don't split with mercenaries or there is no city or country that secedes from the union, they should be able to win unless their co the entire arh

"Now then--"

I went out to the open sea and checked out the depth dwellingones are only level 50-70 large monsters called [Those that Lurk in the Abyss], the other monsters aren't much different from any other oceans

The Sea Orcs I saw at Garleok City port were also there, but it was just a swarate them

"Next, the hometown of the mermaid we saved back at the port--found it"

The Map north of the Garleok City are dotted with es, and one of theathering all the info I need, I return to the airship's deck with Unit Arrangement

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"Welcome back"

"I'm back, Mia"

Mia who iher forehead on ation already?"

"Yes, I haven't analyzed it yet, but I'ave an affirly

"Y-you really were?"

"As expected of ood boy"

Surprised princess Sistina, Lady Karina who's boasting like she did it herself, and Mia who's standing on her tiptoes trying to pat me

Got three different kind of reactions

In addition, my Attentive Ears skill picked up thepart Lady Karina was hiding, which was [Satou]

"Feels like we can conquer the world with Satou here"

"I'ated Princess Sistina's joke with a s the world doesn't sound like a hard work, but I want absolutely nothing to do with the n

"Next, are you going to check the ruht"

Next, I need to investigate if there is a discord within the union and whether that Skeleton Archduke guy is really rallying pirates

I caught a sight of a brownie in ht when I was about to say that

"Satou-saot to postpone the investigation for now

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>[Finfolk Language] Skill Acquired

"Calht"

The brownie in irl

『You're safe here, calirl while using [Translate]skill points like I did at Sania Kingdom back then, but since it didn't seeic [Translate] instead

『Language of Nifu Spoken by huh at first seeic

『This place is near the port where you got washed ashore』