"The so-called rich people are just driving luxury yachts, with yachts full of bikini beauties, then spraying champagne all over them while laughing—how tacky!
In my heart, a rich person should be like me now, embracing my silky smooth and spicy sweetheart, sitting on the deck as smooth as water, fishing, barbecuing, drinking rum, feeling the sea breeze, watching the stars, listening to the waves, singing love poems in my heart! Discussing the future of love! Between the sea and sky, it's just our poetic world!
—'Let's row the double oars, the little boat pushes through the waves...' That's a pirate, no future.
—'Chasing the power of thunder and lightning... Even the smallest sail can sail far!' That's courting death!
—'Every night I dream of you...' That's Titanic, most appropriate! Wahahaha!
After last night's storm, the durability limit of this ship is now less than 1000, with cracks everywhere, really not far from the Titanic. Storms easily damage ships, but repairs restore durability. Yet, a drop in the durability limit means the ship is too old and worn out. The system is indeed not so generous.
Facing the future, Da Fei, embracing his sweetheart, sighed: 'No worries, this ship can still be used for a while. We will make a big fortune during this time, then buy a new big ship, decorate it into a luxurious palace, install a dozen crossbow cannons, and turn the ship into a fortress, then we can wander in the New World, living the happiest life of an Emperor on the sea.'
Catherine sighed softly: 'It's really a pity for this ship, despite the lack of maintenance over the years, it's still one of the best performing ships I've seen, should be a special vessel by the Kingdom's terms, not produced by ordinary shipyards.'
Da Fei was taken aback, 'Special vessel?'
Catherine nodded, 'Yes, the choice of wood for this ship is very rare and unique, the size and shape of the ship are inseparable from the quality of the ship materials, the ship's materials are strong and resilient, only sturdiness can support the huge hull under the push of waves and strong winds, and only resilience can support such a narrow and streamlined high-speed vessel, now that we are just two people we can't fully utilize its performance, and the ship's age also limits its performance, but once equipped with the best sailors, you can imagine how fast it must have been!'
So, there's so much to it in game shipbuilding? Da Fei sighed, 'After all, it was once a ship with a significant historical mission, definitely much better than ordinary ships—' then cheered up, 'But no worries, we just work hard to make money. As long as we have money, we can always find a way to get a new ship with the same performance.'
Catherine smiled charmingly, 'Although such ship materials are hard to get, I believe the Captain definitely has a way.'
Da Fei, while caressing her smooth shoulders, chuckled, 'Of course, nothing can stump me!'
Even so, Da Fei inwardly lamented, the character of a hero is also very important! Darling is passionate and spicy, can be easily coaxed to just her underwear and then casually embraced, a player's blessing! But she is completely a gold-digger! I'm a professional player, I make money by selling Gold Coins to buy cars and houses, not to buy such impractical, unreliable special ships!
But, who am I? An expert! A Master! A Divine-level Hero with dual specializations and dual professions! People follow me, not even a penny to their name, because they see my future! Do such good gold-diggers exist in reality? Conquering a gold-digger is the symbol of a successful man! If you can't do it in reality, and can't do it in games, then why even bother?
In short, a bright tomorrow calls for me, beautiful angels open their arms to me!
Breasts! Looking at the darling in my arms, those breasts bound in her underwear wanting to burst forth, in my heart how I despise! What is underwear? The Divine Domain in the game! No matter how thin, it's an absolute fortress that cannot be conquered!
A glimmer of dawn reddens the sky, a new day begins. Fresh sea breeze gently brushes the sails, and flocks of seagulls surround the Flying, chirping lightly. Seagulls imply that land is near.
Catherine pulled out the sea chart: 'Captain, we've reached the waters near the Elf Kingdom of Farolan, the nearest major port is Elorin, after landing the first thing the Captain should do is to handle a sea commerce permit at the Alliance Sea Commerce Association, only with the permit, the Chamber of Commerce will do business with us. Initially, the permit is just level 1, the Chamber of Commerce will only sell us up to 10 units of low-grade goods a day. Only with more commerce, gaining good credit will upgrade the level of the commerce permit, allowing us to buy more and higher-grade goods. However, this doesn't allow us to utilize our big ship's transport ability. So, we should take on transportation tasks from the Chamber of Commerce, the more and the farther the tasks, the more credit obtained, the faster the commerce certificate level will rise, but such tasks require a deposit equal to the value of the goods, so we now need to find a way to earn money for the deposit.'
Da Fei laughed, 'Dear, I didn't expect you to know so much.'
Catherine smiled, 'As a pirate, one must understand the habits of merchants, inquire about the condition of goods, then ambush them at their most likely appearance spots.'
Da Fei laughed heartily: "Piracy really is a technical job!"
Actually, what Catherine said makes sense, but players have their own ways of playing. The trading post limits players to just one transaction per day, right? Then just buy goods at a high price from other players.
Ordinary players with a level 1 trading license can only buy 10 batches of goods per day, but my ship can carry 1000 batches. I just set up a stall right at the entrance of the trading post and buy the import orders from 100 players at a high price. How high? Just a bit more than their purchase price. During the public test, many players were too lazy to go out to sea and just squatted in the city doing this business.
In the game, commercial trade is a very important selling point of the game, which is related to whether a Lord can develop and grow. So, in the Lord System Skills, there are "Accounting Skill" and "Negotiation Skill" and so on.
— Accounting Skill: Increases the income of the territory by up to 3% per month, and each skill level increases it by an additional 3%.
The sub-skills below include "Farm Development," "Mine Development," "Orchard Development," "Fishery Development," "Market Development," and so on. The effects of the sub-skills, of course, further increase the income and production of the facilities.
— Bargaining Skill: Haggle to reduce the purchase price of goods by up to 5% and increase the selling price of goods by up to 5%. Each level increases the effects by 5%.
The sub-skills below include "Food Trading," "Textiles Trading," "Luxury Goods Trading," "Precious Metals Trading," "Luxury Items Trading," etc. The effects, of course, allow you to buy these types of goods from the trading post at cheaper prices. Also, the Grandmaster-level Negotiation Skill includes a Divine Skill that made the business world tremble during the public test, "Bribery!"
— Bribery: You can pay a sum of money to bribe a trading post dealer, allowing him to sell an extra portion of goods to you.
Then, the Lord System also includes skills like recruitment to increase troop production, City Construction Skill to increase building durability and construction speed. Basically, once you learn these skills, there are not many Skill Points left for combat. Of course, as a Lord, what you play is the number of troops and Vice Heroes, and getting involved personally is inferior. For Da Fei, in face of the substantial profits brought by the large cargo capacity of the ship, all kinds of Negotiation Skills are trivial.
Now, Da Fei has already seen the land near the coast and those white sails on the distant sea. Those white sails are, of course, players running trading near the coast with small boats, now players can only afford small single-mast boats that can carry a maximum of 10 units of goods for trading between two ports.
Ah, I wonder what they think when they see my ship carrying a thousand batches of goods? Land, I've finally returned! My sea trading empire starts here! Wahahaha!
At this time, on the distant sea, a fleet of 20 small sailboats was sailing swiftly, the large size of the Flying definitely caught their attention.
"Brother Cannon, look, look, that ship seems to be player-operated!"
A player from the Dwarf Clan named Skyshattering Cannon immediately took out a telescope to check, and saw the big ship flying a flag with the words "Flying (Da Fei)" in big red letters!
Skyshattering Cannon suddenly gasped: "Da Fei, the trash player wanted across the server!"
For a moment, the entire fleet of players was in an uproar! But everyone quickly snapped back to reality: "This Da Fei is just one person! And he's got a big red name, if we kill him, his equipment and even his ship license might all drop!"
Skyshattering Cannon made a quick decision: "Quickly, contact Blood Sea Studio, everyone start recording for evidence, get ready to move!"
Everyone roared in approval!
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