Firearms in a Fantasy World

Translator: Cinder Translations 

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Mr. Bennett Todd, residing in Frand Port, is a wealthy man in his prime, owning five cargo ships.

Bennett's grandfather was originally a humble land merchant who accumulated wealth through years of traveling. By the time of his father's generation, the family began to focus on maritime ventures.

Amidst puzzled looks from relatives, his father used the money left by his grandfather to buy the first oar-sail ship for the Todd family and recruited enough sailors to start shipping business in the Northwestern Bay.

By the time Bennett took over, the Todd family already owned five cargo ships.

The presence of pirates did not overly affect the business of ship merchants. Though the annual protection fee was heart-wrenching, since the rise of the great pirate Edward, pirates understood the principle of not killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Only those stubborn enough would be robbed clean by pirates.

Furthermore, even if the money meant as a protection fee were not paid to the pirates, it would still be collected as tax by the lords.

True, what's lost are those lords along the coastline, just on the whole, where pirates are more likely to receive higher protection fees, lords have to collect fewer taxes, after all, a sheep with two pieces of skin cannot be peeled.

However, this year, the Northwestern Bay is said to be ever-changing.

The pirate leader Edward and his main fleet suddenly leave with no clue as to where they are going, and the remaining scattered pirate groups have lost their restraints, beginning to act recklessly, ignoring past rules.

This has caused considerable losses to maritime merchants.

Then several pirate groups landed one after another to loot, a leader named