Sicily. This island located in the center of the Mediterranean was once the core territory of the Seven Hills Empire, but is now occupied by the vassal state of the Tianfang Empire, the Holy Kingdom of the Holy Ephelica.

As a theocracy powered by priests, the temples on Sicily were transformed into the style of the City Tianfang Empire at the first time. After hundreds of years, the style of ordinary buildings on Sicily also gradually changed under the influence of time. Today's style has become a mixture of the Tianfang Empire and the Qiqiu Empire.

The islands are changing, but the sea is exactly the same as hundreds of years ago. The golden beaches and the blue sea are quiet like a painting. Fortunately, there are flying seagulls, which gives this scene a sense of reality.

Ella sat barefoot on a smooth rock on the beach, holding paper and pen in her hands, looking as if she was ready to paint the beautiful scenery in real life.

But if someone dares to walk to Ella with the fierce eyes of a group of pirates and bend down to see the content on the paper, they will find that there are only a few strings of numbers on it.

The ones written on Ella's paper are not a profound math problem, they are just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. But Ella frowned, as if she was facing great difficulties.

"Amy, let's confirm, how did I get the fleet?"

"There are seventeen days in total, and every morning, midnight and evening each sailed from Azov, with a total of fifty-one ships."

“How many people are carried on each ship?”

"In addition to His Majesty's Nagilfa forcibly stuffed 1,200 soldiers, each ship carried twenty-four caravans stranded in Azov, plus one hundred and seventy-six of our soldiers. After arriving in Sicily, the caravans took their own boat back to the Republic of Liguria, and our soldiers stayed to gather, with a total of ten thousand people."

"Today is the first ship departing?"

"On the 23rd day, Your Majesty."

“How many days will it take to sail from Azo to Sicily?”

“Generally speaking, fifteen days are enough.”

Ella "brushed" and tore the paper in her hand in half: "If I counted this way, the ships that set out in the previous eight days should have arrived! They were twenty-four ships, more than 5,200 people! But I have ordered them several times. Now there are only two thousand of our soldiers gathered in Sicily! Where are there?”

"Your Majesty, you should be glad that there were only more than 2,000 people." Amy whispered, "Pretending that the cargo ship was docked, but there was no transaction of any items at all, only the number of people was increasing... The people in Sicily looked at us very strangely. You see, there were much fewer people in the port than when we first came. I heard rumors from the tavern that the defenders in Sicily had begun to strengthen the city defense."

"But where are my soldiers? Where are my soldiers? There are many experienced sailors in them, so they shouldn't be lost... Wait!" Ella suddenly thought of something and jumped up from the stone in a hurry. "Is it because Olus reneged and attacked them?"

"This possibility is very small, your majesty, don't panic." Amy patted Ella's shoulder and comforted her, "Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Each of our ships will find a small port to stop halfway through the Black Sea Strait, and leave a few soldiers. If there is no new soldier report on one day, the staying one will immediately find a way to send an alarm to Sicily and Azov. But we have not received such an alarm so far, right?"

This was a plan proposed by Amy to Ella. Before leaving, Amy felt that Ella's plan was a bit unreliable. When she was a child, when she went out to play with a group of friends, if she hadn't set off together, there would always be a few children who could not reach the scheduled location for various reasons. Moreover, Ella was planning to disperse more than 10,000 people to march separately this time. That's why she proposed this plan.

Now it seems that this measure is very necessary. Although the number of people who are expected is still more than half, at least they can be sure that the soldiers have passed through the Black Sea Strait safely.

"And, General Olus has no reason to attack us now. After all, His Majesty has reached a deal with him, and he will at least wait for His Majesty to return..."

"Who wants to go back? I won't give him the crown of Scipio's family! Do I have to go back along the Black Sea Strait? Can't I just go around the Strait of Gibraltar with supplies?"

From the perspective of Olus, the route Ella mentioned is not feasible. It is an ocean-going route that tests the ship's ability to sail and the experience of sailors. Even if Ella has the courage to walk like this, the long route will destiny that her fleet will stay and rest in the harbors along the coast. Ella is not a caravan but an army, and it is difficult to get supplies in the hostile Federation of Almany and Great Britain. Even close to the port will lead to conflict and war.

When Olus was teleported to Antilia, he had no confidence to return to the Seven Hills Empire from this route.

However, Ella's soldiers actually had sufficient sailing experience. In addition, Alfred of Britain was an ally of Ella. For Ella, this route was quite safe.

"Your Majesty, I haven't heard you say this! I won't talk about the feasibility of this plan for now. I thought Your Majesty would definitely abide by the agreement with others, even if it was just a verbal agreement..."

"I am not Barcelona now, but the Pirate King! Who should keep the promise with that traitor!"

After this conversation, Ella's heart was slightly relieved and sat back on the rock. But she couldn't figure out where the problem was.

"It is unlikely that I will get lost and not be attacked by the Qiqiu Empire. What is the reason? Could it be that I was attacked by pirates?"

Amy whispered: "Your Majesty, you just said it yourself, you are the Pirate King."

"What's wrong? If there are ten thousand people, you can forcefully ask the island Republic for supplies! But if there are only two thousand people, you can only choose to negotiate peacefully!!!!"

Ella hugged her head and started wailing.

Just as Ella was thinking about why the more than 2,000 people disappeared, a mast appeared on the sea level. After a while, the hull also appeared in sight. As the ship continued to approach, Ella confirmed that it was one of her fleet.

"Thank God, another ship has arrived safely..."

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!" Amy suddenly remembered something, "We have three ships entering the port today! Where did this ship come from?"

"Gu--?" Ella also reacted, "Come over and ask!"

The ship approached the port. A large group of Ella's soldiers walked down from the ship. Unlike the soldiers who arrived earlier, the soldiers struggled to carry several large boxes. Seeing Ella coming towards this side, they quickly put the boxes on the ground and stood up straight.

"Which batch did you set out?" Ella asked with a frown.

"Report to the King of Sweden! We are the third batch!"

"The third batch???" Amy shouted from behind, "The third batch set off on the first afternoon! It should have arrived eight days ago! Why are you here now?"

"Report to the King of Sweden! After we arrived in Sicily, we felt that we were idle anyway, so we went out to sea with others to rob! You see, these are the spoils we snatched back!"

"Going to sea to rob?" Ella was shocked, "Where did you go to rob?"

"Don't worry, King of Sweden! It's not the Federation of Almani, the Seven Hills Empire, the Island Republic, nor the Ligurian Republic. You have told us that we cannot move these places. So we ran to rob the coast of the Tianfang Empire! Look, these boxes are full of spoils!"

"Um... Um... If you harass the coast of the Tianfang Empire... OK. Are the other ships the same?"

"We don't know the other ships. On our way back, we encountered a ship that had just passed through the Black Sea Strait. They seemed to be planning to rob the coast first and then come to Sicily. Looking at the direction, it seemed like they were heading towards Malta."

"Malta?" Ella almost fainted, "Isn't Malta from the Holy Ephelica Kingdom? Are we now staying with their ports?"

"Don't worry, the Swedish king, even if Malta is robbed by us, they will run to report to their heads, and their heads gather to kill the soldiers, it will take several days later!"

The pirates looked at Ella with a smile, as if they were used to this kind of thing.

"More than two thousand soldiers... randomly selected cities along the Mediterranean to rob..."

Ella's body shook and finally fainted.
Chapter completed!