Chapter 954 New Giant Ship

"She can now go ashore..." Roland said with great interest, "I remember you once said that after she chose to be in the sea, she had no contact with humans for a long time."

"Thanks to the help of Her Highness Tilly and Ms. Carmilla," Margaery replied with a sigh. "Without the ability to communicate directly with consciousness, I'm afraid she still wouldn't be able to adapt to a normal life. And Joan has completely forgotten How to speak, Lord Thunder found several bachelors for her, but the results were not satisfactory. Now she can still only speak a few words, and cannot even have a complete conversation."

At this point, the businesswoman paused for a moment, as if she was hesitant to speak.

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

"I don't know if it's because of the long period of transformation that some parts of her have become different from humans." Margaery bit her lip. "From my understanding of witches, they don't use magic." At that time, she should be no different from ordinary people. But Qiong can't completely return to her previous appearance. There are blue scales on her cheeks, neck, arms and legs, just like those...sea ghosts."

Roland immediately thought of Luojia's long ears. Well... the scaly skin seems to have a special charm. Ahem, no, now is not the time to consider such issues. Even the ears of the third princess of Mad Flame can be harmless to humans and animals. Being feared by the sand people, Joan's situation will probably only get worse.

"Did someone maliciously slander her?"

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

"If you want to teach her to adapt to human life again, you can't avoid contact with other people," Lei Lei's voice was also quite helpless. "Even in the fjord, there are only a few people who can accept her like this - ever since she took her to the house. I have already scared away three maids and two bachelors. There are even rumors outside that I have raised a sea ghost in the house. 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 reluctantly," the businesswoman continued, "But judging from Joan's contact with other people, she does not hate this change. Although she still spends several hours a week soaking in the sea, she is also happy to get along with the maids who accept her. In addition, she now prefers to eat fish cooked before eating it raw. "

However, such an environment was limited to Lei Ting's mansion - Roland understood what the other party meant, but couldn't think of any good solution for the moment. Changing perceptions is a long process, especially for Joan. Her problem is even more serious than that of ordinary witches. Her beastly, deformed, or inhuman appearance has been the object of discrimination and exclusion for a long time in history.

"It will get better gradually," he could only comfort, "Can you let me see her up close?"

If this problem is really serious, then we can only make do with covering it up - for example, like Lorgar's ears, wearing a hat will basically make him look like a normal person.

"Of course," Margaery said, waving in Joan's direction, "honey, come to me."

But the latter just stretched out his head to take a look, and then hid it back.

"Uh... Your Majesty, I'm sorry, she may not be used to seeing so many people," Margaery bowed sheepishly.

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

Roland glanced at the open space beside him, coughed twice and said, "It doesn't matter, she has to stay in Neverwinter City for a while anyway, and she will get used to it. Let's go to the dock first."

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In order to build a steel sea-going ship, Roland specially carved out an open space of nearly a hundred acres in the southwest corner of the shoal, and asked Lian to raise an earth wall around it, forming a barrier that blocked the view. --0---0---Xiao--said---This is the gorgeous dividing line--Let go of that witch 00 novel netizens please note: please pay attention to resting your eyes when reading for a long time. 00 Novel Recommended Reading: The Peerless Sword Princess -0--0---Xiao--said---this is a gorgeous dividing line---not only are sentries set up at the four corners, but the First Army is also stationed on the wall, so Except for the workers involved in the construction, not many people knew what this large ship, which brought together the top industrial level of Neverwinter City, looked like.

When a group of people passed through the earthen wall and walked along the Z-shaped stairs to the bottom of the dock, a burst of uncontrollable exclamation broke out in the team.

Everyone was attracted by the huge monster displayed in front of them.

This is definitely not an exaggeration.

When admiring the ship from below, the first thing you see is the tall and straight side of the ship - unlike the round three-masted sailboat, its freeboard is almost perpendicular to the ground, and its belly is extremely flat, with no protrusion at all. The keel part of the hull. With the restricted viewing angle, everyone seemed to be standing under a towering steel wall, and the sense of oppression was imaginable.

"Three Gods...I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"How much does it weigh? I'm afraid it's more than 20,000 pounds."

"Even the largest three-masted ship probably can't withstand a collision with it!"

"Not to mention the sailboat, I think the behemoths of the deep sea will be scared and run away when they see it!"

"Thunder... No, Master Asuka, you didn't say that what we were going to deal with was such a monster!"

The team suddenly lost order. The sailors ran to the side of the ship one after another, stroking and knocking on the hull. Their excitement was palpable.

They are all the most experienced boat operators in the fjord. Even if they have not seen similar ships, they are aware of its extraordinary features.

The shock in Lei Lei's heart at this moment was no less than that of others, or in other words, it was more intense.

Because Roland had mentioned in his letter that the ship was made of steel 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 areas. Therefore, when recruiting his men, he only described the ship as a sailless ocean-going ship with a steel frame that could withstand the huge waves of the sea line.

But the facts before him told him that was not the case.

Although he knew that Neverwinter City was quite skilled in shipbuilding technology, he did not expect it to be exaggerated to this extent. Not to mention how to splice hard steel together, the raw materials used are beyond the reach of the fjord islands.

How valuable is steel?

Among all kinds of commodities, iron ore is not a luxury product. A palm-sized pig iron ingot can be sold for about 30 to 40 silver wolves. But if it is forged into steel, the price will increase from ten to dozens of times, so that knights often regard their armor as heirlooms 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 in his lifetime. In other words, even if all the blacksmiths in the fjord were gathered together and spent decades of effort, it would be impossible to come up with so much steel.

At first, what he ordered from Roland was just a steam paddle steamer. According to the price found by the Fjord Chamber of Commerce, it was only about three to four thousand gold dragons. Therefore, when the other party told him that he would only charge cost, he did not pay too much attention, because the value of a new route alone far exceeded the cost of the ship itself. Since the King of Graycastle hopes to share information, this deal cannot be said to be taking advantage of the other party.

He even planned to pay all the expenses of the ship to Roland after he completed the sea line exploration. For no other reason than to treat Roland as a reward for taking care of his daughter. He only hoped that Lightning could live a better life in Neverwinter in the future.

But at this moment Lei Lei couldn't help but begin to suspect that even if only the material cost was taken into account, the price of this ship would probably be an astonishing figure.

He couldn't help but sweat for his wallet.