Chapter 432 (1/2)

Since his trip was kept confidential, obviously there would be nobody greeting hiht to the castle, but to first spend one or two days looking at the prince's territory before turning to local rats for information, as a picture orth a thousand words

He walked out of the cabin and onto the trestle, and was immediately astonished at what he saw

This is really a borderland wharf?

The dock areas were built with russet colored bricks within several hundred paces from the river bank Trestles were built at certain intervals, with a sign where the trestle and the dock connected, on which there was a nuhly There were 26 in total, all of which were neatly displayed like tentacles extending from the bank Some were covered with snohile others revealed the tawny planks beneath This indicated the toharf ell taken care of even during the Months of the De's City were less than half the ones here in terth and number!

However, what stunned hiray boats he had never seen were at berth not far away There were seven or eight in total, each of which had a shalloaterline with no sail orto be operated by poles One unique feature of these strange boats was the giant wooden tire on either side and the bulky iron pipe in the middle They looked different from any inland river boats

Otto stood there and watched theure out how these weird ”tire boats” were operated when it began to snow

He brushed the snow off his head, put these thoughts behind him, and decided to follow the crew to the town

Apparently, Otto was not the only passenger on the ”Doind” fro it up at the wharf Several guards wearing black unifor down on the paper They seeoods, as they picked out a couple of bags every now and then

”Who are those people? The mercenaries hired by buyers?” Otto went to ask the captain

”Huh? Mercenaries?” The captain beauys are patrollers in Border Town”

”Patrollers?” He was puzzled Weren't they the sa's City, the patrollers there blackmailed him for two silver royals, which he later learned was actually a common practice everywhere These patrollers were sort of the rivals of underground rats, but they basically did the saed for nothing However, to Otto's surprise, the captain see his pipe leisurely without any intention to stop them, nor did he thrust theht the sa when I ca to have read hisas you follow their rules, you don't need to pay anything before entering the”Even the bandits here talk about rules, and they also note things down They probably write nothing but wriggly syh to blow ?” he questioned

”The types and nuoods especially wheat,” the captain answered, throwing up his hands ”Goods will be checked after being delivered to thethem to others halfway The food here can only be sold by the lord Of course, I don't have wheat in s were loaded to the carriages and everybody departed from the wharf, ready to set out for the market Otto was suddenly dazzled by the scene

Is this really the dom of Graycastle?

Looking at the s the street and people going to and fro, Otto felt the toas as thriving as City of Glow, the capital of the Kingdonificent buildings Compared with the Spire of Dawn and the Great Hall of Sun, these two or three-story buildings were definitely not in the saue