Chapter 134
Frank nodded and spoke, "Well that’s true, the ships are ready but you first need to stamp and sign these papers . We can then go to the ships . anwhile, what did you do the ships? From my experience, we arrived quite earlier compared to the ti that we predicted earlier at the ti of Journey"
John showed a mysterious smile and spoke, "Well, its a secret . "
John smiled and thought . ’I redesigned every ship according to its needs and efficiency . Even if they try to imitate, they won’t be getting any results . Well, it’s good that the ships are working fine . "
Frank sighed and spoke in a grave tone, "I guess this is also one of your creations . Royal Family will be looking at you like a greedy wolf if they find out about the performance of those ships, you know this, right? You should be careful . I am sure these ships can match Fjord’s ships whether it is speed or maneuverability . Even the Head Captain agreed to it . It’s good that I only bought my trusted n since Duke Fjord is targeting us aggressively these days . "
Blake too was quite shocked after hearing Frank and understood that John wasn’t Joking earlier when it ca to the performance of the redesigned ships .
Blake thought as he heard Frank, ’The seas will be exciting and stormy from now on Duke Fjord . The day would not be far when you pay for colluding to catch last ti around and killing most of my n . I will first pay him back in this war where he arrogantly claid he would decimate Count John . I guess he doesn’t know the true fear of those ballistas . I wonder how he will react after hearing about the superiority of these Galleon Ships and the big losses if starts the war . ’
Eric anwhile was having the sa poker face as he was quite used to this scene of Count John shocking everyone .
Eric thought as he saw both of them and had a face which had a disgusted look, ’Plebs, getting shocked at every little thing . Isn’t this expected already?’
Blake imdiately understood as soon as he saw Eric’s disgusted look . However, he controlled himself as he saw that there was an important eting going on and he couldn’t ss up .
Ross too was watching this from the sidelines as he rely smiled,
Frank laughed as he saw all of them, "Hahaha . You have a lot of interesting n, John . You are quite lucky to have n who trust you fully . Anyway, your Ships are at the Dock . They are charged high tariffs . And Yeah I forgot to remind you, 2 weeks later Lord Sapphire will co with Elves from the southern Island as they intend to et you first before making any deal . "
John nodded and asked, "Quite a good piece of news . Thank you, Mr . Frank . I heard you are investing aggressively in the town . I guess you are going against your father as this reveals that you trust us enough that we can protect ourselves . "
Frank thought nostalgically and remarked, "I guess, over the years, I had lost my courage and this ti I am doing as Joseph reminded of one of the core principles I learned earlier when I started doing business before he left on his own . Well, this ti I am quite sure you guys will be able to protect yourselves after watching those ballistas and with the fact that you guys easily gave it to the Royal family . I guess my instincts are good when it cos to judging so situations minutely . And this ti I am investing my private funds so the family funds won’t be jeopardized . So no one can bla . " Frank smiled mysteriously as he spoke the last sentence .
John smiled and understood "Well, lets go to the dock then well will talk on it later on . "
Frank nodded, "True, I too am getting late . Lets go . "
As soon as they arrived at the dock Frank bid them farewell after John signed the papers .
John smiled mysteriously and asked Blake, "So what do you say now? Do you believe in these ships after hearing it directly from Frank? and looking directly at these ships?"
Blake nodded and agreed, "I guess, I will have to . It can’t be a coincidence that you were able to invent so many things . "
Sarah remarked inside his head, "Hmph . . . just plagiarizing . "
John coughed a bit and spoke of his plans to all of them, "From now on we will increase the volu of trade with Sapphire Duchy and other domains . You will be in charge of defending important consignnts with our new naval fleet . You can raid the pirates at will and this includes anyone who dares to rob us . So how do you like this sort of freedom without any sort of restrictions? However, your n will also follow the military laws of our Governnt . "
Blake nodded and agreed, "Hmmm . . . . . Now, this seems like a good proposal . Ok, I will accept this project . We will create a base at the Island first and then at the Northlands . From there Our team will first connect to that new town at the northlands and then from that town with North-frontier city as this will be important for our future and connection to the sea . "
John nodded and made other suggestions, "That’s a good plan . However, you will have to provide a full plan from the start to the end so that I can plan accordingly . "
Blake thought a bit and said, "Ok, I will do that imdiately after I contact my n . Anyway, You don’t have to worry about your Tradeships from now on as these ships and ballistas are good enough to create chaos among the other pirate crews or Fjord’s own navy fleet . Just watching the current speed of these Ships . I am sure we will dominate the seas for a long ti . I am just itching for my encounter with them, this includes Fjord as well as the Royal Navy . I am sure Fjord will protest a lot with the Royal family over my appointnt claiming that since I am a pirate . I shouldn’t be allowed to join any of the lords . And lord doing so should be punished for my sins . Do you really think it would be Ok with my announcent? I can still beco an unofficial Admiral of your navy . "
John shook his head, "Well, I have a perfect pretext over it so you don’t have to worry . Royal family won’t risk ruining their relationship with over a re appointnt and Jeopardize our deal of sharing the Ballista blueprints to them . And even if they do create so problems . They can’t do much at sea apart from lip service as they won’t risk the lives of their own personnel over a personal feud between and Fjord . "
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Duke Fjord was anwhile trying to rally the lords at one of the parties hosted by Grim frequently . Duke was also attending these parties nowadays as suggested by Grim . Grim was the one who suggested creating a social influence and rally lords while offering them various benefits . They would eventually follow their greed and join the crusade against Count John .
One of the Barons comnted after watching Duke at one of the parties, "It seems that Duke is rallying knights and Lords to invade North Frontier city . It looks like even the Royal family is turning a blind eye towards this Developnt because they understand that Duke can use this as a pretext if Dwarves are able to penetrate their spies or even their fleet when he continues his campaign against Count John .
Another one of counts asked with enticing words, "What do you say? Will you participate in this war? From what I know, this war can make most of the lords rich enough to not worry about 20 years at least if any of us can get our hands on the new technologies developed by n at Count John’s domain . And rember this, No risks No gains . "
One of the viscounts spoke in a grave manner, "However there is also that weapon called Ballista as well . And you haven’t forgotten about that mini ballista as well, right? I don’t want to get or my n killed over so wealth if that count is pissed over so lord leading the vanguard . "
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