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"Keep in line Don’t push!&8221; a Graycastle clerk wearing a black uniforh the crowd "Reo to the corresponding checkout Make sure you go to the correct one!&8221;

Manfeld, still flabberaghasted, was pushed onto the dock

He saw the whole port lie before hiest port he had ever seen The dock stretched away along the bank and disappeared at the end of the horizon Unlike the damp, moldy port he usually saw, this dock was clean and tidy The pavement was covered hite slabs Thousdands of ships traveled back and forth Even the port in the Kingdoasped at this nificent scene However, Menfeld was still in such an immense shock that he was now e iron birds

Manfeld constantly looked backward in the direction he had coain Instinctively, he wanted to convince himself that it was not a delirious illusion

But by the time he reached the trestle, he had still not seen them

Manfeld was a little disappointed

"Please have your boarding pass ready and go to the corresponding checkout according to the three digit nuh a strange ees, their voice amplified by multiple times, so that everyone in the crowd could hear theh the security check Welco’s city of Graycastle We welcome every one of you!&8221;

Manfeld calht it was a very strange way to welcoees did not co these Graycastle dom of Wolfheart was, in a way, a sort of dictatorship Yet, surprisingly, he found hi these words

The towering cliff suddenly caved in at this point and for line behind it and slowly proceeded to the checkouts in various directions There were more than 10,000 people at the dock area, and apparently, not all of the national power that was to bring so ether in such a short period of ti, and Manfeld heard a co in line but also the clerks in blackthe order were surprised

Manfeld turned around and saw a colossal ship slowly dock It was long and made of metal There were no paddles on either side of the ship, its freeboard aloft and straight Nobody would eversuch a superb ship It was evident, however, that the Graycastle men was not astounded at the ship itself but the way it looked

"Are they mental? I can’t believe that they use iron to build ships!&8221; someone around Manfeld muttered in disbelief "Don’t they know that iron will rust after in contact ater?&8221;

"Perhaps the King of Graycastle wants to show off his wealth The iron ship does look pretty nice I didn’t believe that such heavy things could float in water before I saw the concrete boat&8221;

"What’s the point insuch a wonderful ship when it can only last half a month? I used to sail on the sea and know a lot about ships Seawater erodes ships far ular paints won’t last long You see, this is what they’ve got in the end&8221;

Rusts could be seen all over the iron ship Its body, which had once been polished and shiny, was now bu constrast with the neat dock The mast above was snapped and broken into several pieces The ship was shuffling with great difficulties toward the dock like an exhausted, withered seaRoland Wi a ship like this?

The h the crowd for the sailors on the ship Manfeld had a vague feeling that things were not that siees started to ain