Under Hudson's tacit approval, carts of military weapons were sent to the docks, loaded onto ships, and departed.
Since the Kingdom's Magician Group began to clear the coastal reefs, smuggling trade gradually transitioned into the 2.0 era, evolving from solely land-based operations to combining both sea and land routes.
Compared to traditional land transportation, maritime transport provided not only lower costs but also substantially improved safety.
It was an unwritten rule not to target merchant convoys, but with so many Orc tribes, there were always a few that didn't follow the rules.
As long as the operations were clean enough, the death of smugglers was in vain, and no one would stand up for a group of dead people.
The cost involved usually meant that routes with frequent accidents would no longer be used by merchant convoys, effectively ending their business prospects on those routes.
