"She can get ashore now..." Roland said with great interest, "I remember you said that she had never been in contact with humans for a long time after she chose to be in the sea."

"Thanks to the help of His Highness Tilly and Ms. Kamira," Margaret replied, "If she had not had the ability to communicate directly by consciousness, she would have been unable to adapt to normal life. And Joan had completely forgotten how to speak. Lord Thunder found several bachelors for her, but the results were not ideal. Now she could only speak a few words, and she could not even have a complete conversation."

Speaking of this, the businesswoman paused for a moment, as if he was a little reluctant to speak.

"What's wrong?" Roland couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know if it's because of the long transformation, some of her parts have become different from humans," Margaret bit her lip. "In my understanding of witches, they should be the same as ordinary people when they don't use magic. But Joan couldn't completely return to her previous appearance. Her cheeks, neck, arms and legs all had blue scales, just like those... sea ghosts."

Roland immediately thought of Luo Jia's long ears, um... the scale skin seemed to have a unique charm. No, now is not the time to consider this problem. Even the third princess Mad Flame's ears that are harmless to humans and animals can be feared by the Sha people. Qiong's situation is probably only worse.

"Someone maliciously slandered her?"

"We tried our best to prevent it, but it is inevitable that someone will spread the news." Margaret sighed.

"If you want to teach her to adapt to human life again, you will not avoid contact with others," Thunder's voice was also quite helpless. "Even if you can accept her appearance, even in the fjord, it is a minority who have scared away three maids and two bachelors since you took her to the mansion. Some people even rumored that I raised a sea ghost in the mansion, and maybe the sea is more suitable for her."

"If my friend hates life on land, I will naturally not let her stay on the island," the businesswoman continued. "But judging from the process of contact with others, she does not hate this change. Although she still spends several hours a week in the sea, she is also happy to get along with the maids who accept her. She now prefers to roast it and eat it after it is raw."

However, such an environment is limited to Thunder's mansion. Roland understood the other party's meaning, but could not think of any good way. Changing the concept was a long process, and even more so for Joan. Her problems were even more serious than ordinary witches. Her beastly, deformed, or inhuman appearance, for a long time in history, were objects of discrimination and rejection.

"It will always get better slowly," he could only comfort him, "Can I let me see her up close?"

If this problem is really serious, you can only cover it up first, for example, wearing a hat is basically the same as that of ordinary people, like Luo Jia's ears.

"Of course," said Margaret waved toward Joan, "Dear, come here."

But the latter just stuck his head out and looked at it, then hid it back.

"Uh... Your Majesty, sorry, she may not be used to the scenes of so many people," Margaret bowed embarrassedly.

"It seems you scared her," Nightingale gloated in her ear.

Roland glared at the open space beside him and coughed twice, "It's okay, she's going to stay in Wudong City for a while anyway, so she'll get used to it. Let's go to the dock first."

...

In order to build a steel sea ship, Roland specially set up a vacant land of nearly 100 acres in the southwest corner of the shallow, and let the lotus raise earth walls around it, forming a barrier to block the line of sight. Not only were there whistles at the four corners, but the First Army was also arranged to garrison on the wall. Therefore, except for the construction workers, not many people knew what this large ship that gathered the top industrial level of Wudongcheng looked like.

As the group walked through the earthen wall and walked along the z-shaped staircase to the bottom of the dock, an uncontrollable amazement erupted in the team.

Everyone was attracted by the behemoth that was shown before them.

This is definitely not an exaggeration.

When you admire the sea boat from below, the first thing you see is the tall and upright side of the boat and the round three-masted sailboat. Its freeboard is almost perpendicular to the ground, and its abdomen is extremely flat, and the keel part that protrudes from the hull cannot be found. With the limitation of the perspective, everyone seems to be standing under a majestic steel wall, and the pressure can be imagined.

"The Three Gods are above...I haven't dreamed?"

"How heavy can it be? I'm afraid there will be more than 20,000 burdens."

"Even the largest three-masted ship, I guess I can't resist it's hit!"

"Stop talking about sailing boats, I think the deep-sea monsters will be frightened to escape when they see it!"

"Thunder...No, Lord Asuka, you didn't say we were going to fiddle with. It's such a monster!"

The team suddenly lost order, and the sailors ran to the side of the boat, stroked and knocked on the hull, and their excitement was beyond words.

They are the most experienced boatmen in the Fjords, and even if they have never seen similar sea boats, they realize their extraordinaryness.

And Lei Ting's shock at this moment was no less than that of other people, or even more intense.

Because Roland mentioned in his letter that the ship was cast from top to bottom, and he thought it was an exaggeration at the time. After all, even a conventional wooden ship would only use the best wood in key parts. Therefore, when recruiting his men, he only described the ship as a sailless ocean-less ship with a steel skeleton that was enough to fight against huge waves on the sea line.

But the facts in front of him told him that it was not the case.

Although he knew that Wudongcheng was quite good at shipbuilding technology, he did not expect to be exaggerated to this extent. Not to mention how to splice hard steel together, the raw materials it uses alone are not something that the fjords and islands can reach.

How expensive is steel?

Among all kinds of goods, iron ore is not a luxury. A pig iron ingot the size of a palm can be sold for about 30 or 40 silver wolfs. But if it is forged into steel, the price will increase by ten to dozens of times, so that the knights often regard their armor as a family heirloom and inherit it from generation to generation.

More importantly, this process is extremely time-consuming. A blacksmith can only produce seven or eight sets of qualified steel armor throughout her life. In other words, even if it takes decades to gather all the blacksmiths in the fjord, it is impossible to get so much steel.

At first, what he ordered from Roland was just a steam paddle ship. According to the price he found at the Fjord Chamber of Commerce, it was only about three or four thousand golden dragons. Therefore, when the other party told him that the cost was only charged, he did not care too much, because the value of a new route alone was far more than the cost of the ship itself. Since the King of Gray Castle wanted to share information, this transaction could not be said to have taken advantage of the other party.

He even planned to complete the sea line expedition and pay Roland all the expenses of the ship to take care of his daughter, not for anything else, but just to think that Lightning can live a better life in the future without winter.

But at this moment, Thunder couldn't help but begin to doubt that even if the material cost is only counted, the price of this ship is probably an astonishing number.
Chapter completed!