A massive Freight Mana-Powered Ship slowly entered the harbor on the eastern coast of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's branch base on the Demoncloud Continent.
The moment it came to a stop, the gangplank was lowered, and the large crowd already waiting on deck rushed down impatiently.
This hundred-thousand-ton Freight Mana-Powered Ship had departed from a southern port in the Tural Autonomous Territory, formerly the Candel Empire's Tural Province on the Sains Continent, and spent a full thirteen days crossing the Endless Sea.
For those thirteen days, the people aboard had drifted across the boundless Endless Sea, scarcely catching sight of land.
Now that they had finally reached the Demoncloud Continent, they naturally refused to spend another moment aboard.
They had chosen a Freight Mana-Powered Ship rather than a Passenger Mana-Powered Ship partly because passenger services were too infrequent and expensive, but the most important reason was that there were simply too many people.
More than three thousand people disembarked from this ship alone.
Great Mage Le Mans held tightly to his wife's and two children's hands as the immense crowd jostled them. In the end, he had to draw on his mana and cast a small Protective Shield around his family, barely managing to keep them from being separated.
After his family finally stumbled out of the thickest part of the crowd, Great Mage Le Mans looked around with a peculiar expression.
Beyond the dock lay an enormous square, where a row of tents stood side by side, covered with all kinds of huge banners. They looked like a collection of market stalls.
But judging by the equally large lettering in the Sains Continent Common Language on those banners, these were not stalls, but recruitment booths for merchant guilds across the Demoncloud Continent.
A glance revealed all sorts of strange