Chapter 83: Beasts Pirates Development Plan Suggestions (part 1)
The line of sight returned to Fenrir Island. Although Kaido guessed that John might still be alive, he had no intention of taking any countermeasures.
On one hand, the Beasts Pirates had just swallowed such a large territory and needed time to digest it, with no spare power left to compete with the Golden Lion for prey.
On the other hand, even knowing John was still alive, Kaido couldn’t find him for the time being.
As for tracking the Golden Lion, that was even more nonsense. In theory, as long as Shiki was willing, no one could know his exact location.
“Go tell Linlin and Wang Zhi about this. We don’t need to pay attention to it anymore.”
After issuing such an order, Kaido, out of alcohol to drink, lay down again and snored loudly in sleep.
“Got it, Boss Kaido.”
Ra didn’t have contact methods for those two factions, so this matter still had to be handled by Burufaruto.
Casually wiping his face a couple of times to alleviate the hangover discomfort, this Fish-Man executive then strode out of the banquet hall.
“So what do we need to do next?”
Watching the reliable Fish-Man senior leave, Ra turned to ask Ember beside him.
As a nominal executive of the Beasts Pirates, she had also begun consciously participating in some work within the pirate crew.
“There are many things we need to do next, but simply put, it’s to recruit soldiers, buy horses, expand our forces, and thoroughly turn this island into a fortress of the Beasts Pirates.”
“Come with me. I’ll take you to the archive room. It has detailed information on the surrounding islands’ sea currents and routes.”
“Take a general look first. We’ll discuss the specific details for the next steps once Boss Kaido wakes up.”
After spending these few days together, Ember’s words to Ra had clearly increased.
It was just unknown whether it was because of Ra’s inherent affinity field or because he knew that the three of them were also rare races.
The archive room was not far from the banquet hall; it was an unassuming small building.
The small building’s exterior was somewhat worn, but it appeared very clean, without any graffiti marks.
A rustic metal decoration hung on the somewhat peeling wooden door, engraved with many patterns resembling writing. When Ra pushed the door open to enter, it made a crisp tinkling sound, apparently a special doorbell.
The scene behind the door was just as clean and tidy as the outside, nothing like the messy chaos Ra had imagined from the Beasts Pirates’ previous archive room, where there was no place to step.
Stacks of materials were neatly arranged on shelves by year and type, with complete labels, making it easy to find the needed documents.
『Very professional setup. It seems they hired a specialist to manage these materials.』
Her gaze sweeping over the rows of files, Ra didn’t rush to flip through them but followed the wooden stairs to the second floor.
Unexpectedly, this place contrasted sharply with the orderly setup on the first floor, instead having a bit of the Beasts Pirates’ style.
A large wooden desk was placed by the window, covered with various objects in messy disarray, with no empty space visible.
An ink bottle not properly capped, quills placed randomly, an upside-down notebook, and sheets of paper covering the desk filled with various notes…
This was clearly someone’s private room.
Ra continued looking around and sure enough saw a wooden board bed quietly placed in the corner, with an old wardrobe beside it.
But that was about it. Compared to a normal room, this was more like a temporary dark room a writer uses for rushing manuscripts.
Coming to the desk, Ra picked up something like a sheet of manuscript paper and carefully examined the content on it.
『The format doesn’t look like a novel or diary; rather, it resembles some kind of research manual.』
Picking up another sheet and comparing it to the previous one, Ra found that the two sheets of manuscript paper had similar formats, but they featured two different scripts.
From the interspersed common language, Ra roughly guessed that this was a manuscript in the process of translation, or rather a research manual deciphering some lost script.
『It seems this archive administrator mister is also a linguist.』
Quickly browsing through all the various manuscripts and notes on the desk, Ra roughly understood that this research manual was deciphering the notebook on the desk.
And the notebook’s content was related to a city named Shandora.
But since the deciphering work was incomplete, or this manual was not complete, Ra temporarily had no way to learn other more detailed information.
『Fortunately, the original notebook being studied is still here. Later, when there’s time, continue deciphering the rest of the content.』
After confirming there were no other archive files on the second floor, Ra turned and returned to the first floor, starting to flip through the account books and records from various years from farthest to nearest.
Ra’s reading speed was extremely fast, almost glancing once and immediately turning to the next page. A thick account book was fully memorized by her in just a few minutes.
Although there was a full room of account books and files, compared to Fenrir Island’s vast area, population, and exchanges with the dozen or so surrounding subordinate islands, this quantity was obviously severely reduced.
However, considering that ordinary pirates wouldn’t care about these tedious paperwork tasks, this amount was reasonable.
After all, you can’t expect those rough men who only swing swords and guns daily to keep work logs for you…
Two and a half hours passed quickly.
After speed-reading all the files in the room on inter-island commodity trade, population movement, geographical features, and the latest compiled Beasts Pirates data, Ra gained a general understanding of the new territory now occupied by the Beasts Pirates.
First was the most intuitive island count.
This time, they seized a total of the main island Fenrir, the sub-islands Hati and Skul, and scattered small islands around, for fifteen islands in all.
Plus the original three islands of the Beasts Pirates, they now occupied eighteen large and small islands in total.
In terms of area, it already surpassed many countries in the Grand Line, truly a hegemon.
Next was population.
The resident population on each island here was almost equivalent to that of the previous three strongholds combined, and the two sub-islands had even more population than the sum of those three islands.
As for the main island Fenrir, as the core of this sea area, its population was naturally the largest, roughly equal to the total population of all the other islands.
Then came the Beasts Pirates crew members’ replenishment…
First, the losses in this battle for the Beasts Pirates were not great.
Mainly some on Hachinosu Island affected by the explosion and a dozen ambushed at Aoxi’s place. There were no significant casualties in the subsequent landings and seizures of islands.
On the contrary, in the process of successively capturing islands in the sea area, they incorporated a large number of original John Pirates and their subordinate pirate crews’ members.
The Beasts Pirates’ total personnel had now broken through one thousand and continued to have pirates defecting to them.
Finally, various treasures and resources.
No need to think about treasure; these dozen-plus islands together didn’t amount to a few billion Belly, and almost all had been collected by John, leaving just enough for the island pirates’ food, drink, and weapon purchases.
The island’s weapons and ammunition were mostly stored on Skul Island, but due to poor storage, a considerable portion had become damp and rusted, unusable.
As for resources… possibly due to volcanic activity, Fenrir Island’s main island had quite a few sulfur mines and other metal veins.
Mainly copper and lead ore, but because they were too close to the mountain body and low in content, no organized mining had been done.
Of course, things like gold mines and gem mines had long been scraped clean multiple times.
The surrounding islands also had some metal ore deposits, but they weren’t worth mining either. Overall, the metal resources here were abundant but hard to extract.
In contrast, possibly due to volcanic ash, the flora, fauna, and grain resources on these islands were quite abundant.
Not only many specialty fruits and vegetables, but also some branded items like volcanic coffee that had gained some fame. Of course, the surrounding sea area’s fish resources were also plentiful, with considerable annual catches.
These islands generated massive Belly each year just through food and seafood trade.
