In early August, under the urgent loan of Ambassador Nord, he finally collected enough gold snake coins for payment of ransom at Dilingang.

In order to redeem Morena as soon as possible, the Valkyrie Knights urged Ambassador Nord to send three pigeon letters in a row.

The forced ambassador could not wait for the fleet of ransoms that had just set out from Nord, so he could only raise money from Nord merchants in Diling Harbor.

It was Ashley's Independence Fleet again, protecting Ambassador Nord to go to Miluo Island to conduct a prisoner of war redemption transaction.

The Imperial Navy is now busy with the possibility of invasion of the Snake Cult, and is frantically defending islands on routes between the old and new continents, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

Most of the pirates who were originally rampant on the golden route were granted by the Empire. The remaining small groups of pirates saw that the pirate kings were granted by the Empire. They did not dare to act rashly, but they were not qualified to enter the sight of the Imperial Navy.

The pirates on the entire golden route were much more restrained for a while.

In order to win over these pirates, nearly half of the money the empire invested in these islands was allocated to them, allowing them to contract the military defense of hundreds of islands between the old and new continents.

For a time, pirates, including Victor Marre, frantically bought slave labor everywhere for the bounty of the empire, contributing to the construction of the empire's seas.

The pirates and the Imperial Navy reached a strange state of stability, and Ashley's independent fleet had temporarily lost its target.

The meeting of nominations for her to be elected as a member of the Imperial Navy, which will be held next month. Before that, Ashley's main purpose is to keep everything stable.

In order to show goodwill to Secretary William, she was preparing to order a batch of VC holy water from Link again.

Ashley looked at the outline of Miluo Island that was faintly revealed in the distance, and couldn't help but remember what Minister William said to her:

"If you cannot control the source of VC Holy Water, then buy all its shares. The Imperial Navy will fully support this matter and make sure that no bottle of holy water flows out to the old continent."

After informing Link, Link, who was already in the same camp, happily agreed to Secretary William's request.

Before the emergence of VC holy water, the Snake Cult invaded the New World and had to take every step to capture the islands between the old and new continents as a supply land.

If you don't do this, the long voyage will easily swallow most of the Snake Sect's soldiers. The Snake Sect's small-scale invasion was defeated because of this.

After the emergence of VC holy water, there was no worries about ejaculation, and the island defense lines between these new and old continents were likely to be useless.

As an important figure in the decision-making level of the Imperial Navy, Minister William must ensure that the situation develops in a favorable direction in the empire.

After receiving the news, Link naturally raised his hands to agree. He knew that the reason why the Imperial Navy did not choose to directly occupy Miluo Island and seize control of the holy water was because he was afraid that the fish would be defeated and then he revealed the preparation method of the holy water to the Snake Cult.

So I spent a lot of money to buy all the holy water, and of course I would repay the favor and agreed.

This matter is beneficial to Link. Who is not selling VC Holy Water? Why don’t he do it if he can make the Imperial Navy underwriting?

Soon, the fleet approached the port.

Dean Barrow hurried to the island manor, and Carl led him there to hand over the prisoners of war.

He had already made a deal and no longer tried to maintain the calmness of the diplomats. He now wanted to send Knight Morina back to Nord immediately. God knows how much pressure Ambassador Nord put on him.

The prisoner-of-war redemption ceremony was held step by step. Link was not interested in staying there. After leaving it to Carl for processing, he found Ashley again.

"Why are you here again so soon?"

Not long after the last time they parted, the two met again.

"This time we come to trade holy water to ensure that the production of Miluo Island has been eaten by the Imperial Navy, otherwise we will have big trouble."

As the exclusive agent of Holy Water in the Golden Sea that Link promised her, Ashley was from her hands all the holy water sold in this sea area.

If the Snake Sect also possesses holy water by the Empire, she will be in trouble with Link.

As the only daughter of the consul Barence, she is likely to drag down her family, so she has no choice but to be careful.

"And, I have to stay on Miluo Island for this period of time."

Ashley has never seen the holy water preparation workshop on Miluo Island, but she knows that the workshop that can prepare thousands of bottles of vc holy water at the same time must be on Miluo Island.

Link curled his lips, but he didn't expect that the Empire was so petty.

‘I’m like the kind of person who will go back on his word?’

"It just so happens that you can help watch the island's safety. Remember to send warships to cruise the surrounding islands regularly. There are my people on it, and you have to ensure their safety."

Link didn't care too much. Originally, he could not have sold the holy water to the people of the Snake Cult. The Snake Cult launched a large-scale invasion, and Miluo Island would also be a victim at that time.

Hearing Link's domineering instructions, Ashley did not retort for the first time. In her heart, she felt a little sorry for her distrust of Link's behavior.

"I will ensure that Miluo Island and surrounding islands are safe. According to Navy intelligence, the Snake Cult is also building ships along the coast of the Old Continent.

Before the people of the God of Light evacuated, they set a torch and burned all the ships and docks. In the next three to five months, the Snake Cult will not be able to collect a fleet that can support their huge army to cross the sea."

After hearing this, Link felt much more at ease. It seemed that he had enough time to make this trip to the north.

With Ashley's Independence Fleet deterrence, let alone a small group of pirates, even a pirate king like Victor Marre dared not come to harass Miluo Island.

After all, Ashley's independent fleet was a regular Imperial Navy organization, which was incomparable to the stinky fish and rotten shrimps that were Zhao'an.

After chatting for a while, he told Ashley not to cause trouble on the island. Link left the dock in Ashley's eyes.

Back at the manor, the impatient Dean had already taken Morina away. The middle-level noble officers were arranged to be detained in a centralized manner due to their status and were not sent to the labor camp, so they were soon arranged to leave.

In addition to several noble officers who had clashed with Carl, Jon.

"What's going on?"

As soon as Link entered the manor, he saw Dean and his group confronting Carl and others.

"Boss, these guys are too arrogant! You can't let them go!"

Jon stared at the several noble officers opposite him who had just removed the shackles, and the other party was still clamoring.

It seemed that when they saw Dean's arrival, they felt that the Nord Kingdom behind them were supported by them, and they began to vent their dissatisfaction with being imprisoned these days.

Link's face turned mute and looked at Dean, who was led by Nord and his group.

"Stay these three guys, otherwise you won't even think about leaving!"

Dean looked embarrassed. He wanted to strangle these three fools to death, and he was about to end the game.

"Link, this is a misunderstanding..."

"You want to stay, too?"

Not wanting to listen to his nonsense, Link interrupted impatiently.

"I.."

He looked behind him with a confused expression, remembered the ambassador's instructions, and took the others away without looking back.

The three people on the side had already noticed something was wrong, but they didn't expect that they would be abandoned so decisively by Dean.

They are nobles with names and surnames in the Kingdom of Nord!

"Entertainment Dean! I..."

Before one of them could shout twice, he was punched in the abdomen by Jon who rushed forward. He was imprisoned for many days and was unable to hold on to his feet. He covered his stomach and fell slowly.

"What do you want to do? We paid the ransom!"

The other two retreated and made a terrified statement.

"Everyone will go to the island to open up the land!"

Link was impatient to see their ugly face and waved his hand to make Jon solve it quickly.
Chapter completed!