Chapter 533: The Visit of Charles
In the course of a year, the Westia Kingdom engaged in wars with several countries and, with minimal losses, gained vast tracts of land.
It became the nation with the largest territorial expansion within the year.
Meanwhile, a region known as Carabby began to witness the emergence of pirates.
These Carabby pirates were ideologists, not aligning themselves with any country.
Regardless of the favorable conditions offered by various nations, they had no intention of joining forces, retaining their ships and crews for piracy.
No matter how stern the warnings from the Fran Kingdom and Porlia Kingdom were, these pirates showed no signs of abandoning their marauding ways.
The Carabby region was affluent, attracting adventurous immigrants from various countries.
Gradually, they were blinded by the allure of wealth, their eyes seeing only gold, devoid of basic respect for life.
Their vessels, originally meant for trade, were all repurposed as pirate ships.
Their storage spaces, initially used for goods, were now filled with gunpowder and cannonballs.
Porlia Kingdom once held one or two islands in the Carabby region, but these were soon destroyed by the pirates, who established their strongholds there.