Training, Growing Stronger, Discovery

(PS: My personal affairs made everyone worry, and I'm truly sorry. A lot of it has already been resolved. In truth, many things can be talked through, as long as you calmly state what you want. Bottling things up will always cause problems. Thank you again for your concern.)

With Redemption Land's reinforcements arriving, construction of the entire port was finally set fully on track. It was no longer the sort of work Wu Pifu had seen before, done entirely through individual initiative. The Gaia Humans from Redemption Land organized everyone into groups, assigned tasks, classified technicians by rank, and so on.

Even without modern high-tech equipment or modern high-tech materials, the arrival of the Gaia Humans caused the pace of port construction to soar. Moreover, the entire project was redesigned and built according to modern standards. It truly opened the eyes of everyone in this world.

It was not only laborers and unemployed people from various places who had followed Wu Pifu to this port. Every major merchant association that worked with Xu Shilan had sent people to observe and help. There were capable people among them as well—intellectuals, engineers, mathematicians, and the like by this world's standards. Yet any random Gaia Human completely outclassed them. How could they not be utterly shocked and shaken?

Knowledge was power. In this world, still at the level of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, that was an utterly fitting statement. The nobles and officials of this world monopolized nearly all knowledge. Thus, even if one or two exceptionally powerful people occasionally emerged from among the common folk, they still had to rely heavily on those nobles and officials to govern their territories. Sea Emperor Bagdat was one such example. He had risen from among the common people, yet many of his crew