Soon, they arrived at the dock.

Although it is still early, the boats here come and go, and it is very busy. A large number of goods were loaded and unloaded, and there was a huge pulley crane on the wharf, which was the first time that Jiayi had seen something so technologically advanced. I've seen more magical things before, but they're magical enough, but not scientific enough.

"Isn't it very powerful, you can't see it in other places. This is also because the population here is not very large, otherwise it would be able to carry more goods. March said with some pride, as a student who was about to enter the academy, he was so powerful and proud of his school.

"Indeed, this is the first time I have seen such a modern pier. Jia Yi said quietly.

"What did you say?" said Mado, who was beside Kaichi, whose voice was too small for him to hear clearly.

"Nothing. Kaichi shook his head, "I've never seen such a good dock outside. Merchants here come and go, how did they not learn the past. ”

Jia Yi was a little curious, Memphelbo is the capital of a country, the number of mages is not large, but there are not a few, there are some people who are resident there, and there is no transformation of the imperial capital, at least it is very simple to learn a pulley.

"How do I know this, maybe it's too much trouble, at least I won't, how can it be like you, for your own chamber of commerce, you also built a blast furnace for ironmaking. Although these things don't have magic fluctuations, they can be learned by ordinary people. "Mado doesn't really know why, and he doesn't care about that.

Jia Yi didn't know, not all mages were the same as Jia Yi, and regarded themselves as one with ordinary people. Mages are actually very alienated from ordinary people, they don't care about ordinary people, and they don't have much pursuit of technology. Although they are good at observing and summarizing the laws of nature, and have a lot of experience in mathematics and physical chemistry, they are more applied to magic, and are not good at inventing things without magic, because magic is too convenient, so they ignore things without magic.

The mage's attitude towards ordinary people makes them not happy to make a simple but efficient tool like a pulley set, because there is no magic, people are not happy to make it and collect more money, and they are not happy to collect less money, so it is better to add a magic power and sell it for a high price. Ordinary people also have some prejudices about mages, thinking that spells seem to be killing and protecting, and rarely associate spells with increased productivity.

Of course, this also has to do with the fact that the mage doesn't show this outside.

Although the pulley set has little to do with magic, ordinary people do not have this understanding, and they are in awe of what the pulley group on the dock thinks is a magic prop, and they have not thought of imitating it. This can be regarded as a psychological blind spot, how can something as magical as a mage's territory not be a magic prop.

This leads to the fact that there are not many imitations of this pulley set outside, but there are only not many, not nothing, but Jia Yi has not seen it.

When Jiayi and the others had seen enough, March said, "Let's go, I'll take you to buy a ticket." ”

"Ferry ticket?" said in a low voice, although he had heard the word for the first time in the other world, and he didn't know if it was the ferry ticket he imagined, but the meaning was indeed the meaning. This was the first time he had heard of transportation tickets, and when he arrived in the imperial capital, he did not buy a ferry ticket, but took a ship from the Chamber of Commerce, and he did not hear that there was a special passenger ship to the imperial capital.

March led Jiayi and them to the right, and soon came to a multi-story ship. The rest of the ships were mainly used for transporting goods, the hull was not high, there were only two floors above the deck, and only in the aft half, the front deck was empty, the height of each floor was not very high, and the area was not very large, used as observation rooms and guest rooms, and the sailors lived in the cabins on the ground floor.

But there were three floors above the hull of this ship, and only one layer was added in height, but each floor was very large, directly in the middle of the ship, as if an attic had been built in the middle of the ship, leaving only a small part of the deck front and rear, and the front and rear of each floor were set aside for decks. Each hull is densely packed with windows, and if you look closely, you can see that it is inlaid with glass. On top of that, there are no sails, and in the center of the ship are two huge paddlewheels, which are probably where the power lies.

"Is this the boat we're going on?" asked Jade curiously, neither he nor Madow were very talkative, and even if they felt surprised, it was mostly just a surprised expression, and it was rare to see him so surprised that he spoke up.

"It's a magically powered ship. March smiled and said that she was very happy to see everyone's expressions, especially even Jiayi was very surprised, which made her look very accomplished.

Although this ship has nothing to do with her, it just is.

March led them towards the ship, and when they reached the side of the boat, they were stopped by a burly man, who was nearly two meters tall and muscular, and a compelling momentum rushed towards them.

This man doesn't look like a knight, Kaichi thought to himself. Although the knight is a melee class, it does not look like this devil muscleman, this person is a little strong and abnormal, like an ancient beast.

March took out his mage badge, and the devil muscle man immediately got out of the way, and when Jia Yi saw this, he also took out his mage badge and lit it up.

When they got on board, a door on the first deck opened, and a skinny goblin man came running up and asked, "Aha, I'm the ship's officer, a few mages, do you need anything?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the mage badge that Jia Yi had not had time to put away.

March said: "We are the next mage to enter the school, and if we want to take your boat to school, we need to buy, one, two, three, four, five, five tickets. ”

She said as she counted them.

"No problem, five tickets, what grade of tickets do you want, two standard magic stones of the highest grade, 10 gold coins of the second class, and one gold coin of the third class. The shipsman said, the smile on his face looking a little funny, as if it had been squeezed out.

"It's so expensive, it shouldn't be that far, is it?" said in a whisper, taken aback.

A magic stone is worth more than 10 gold, but you can exchange a magic stone for 10 gold, but 10 gold can't buy a magic stone, basically, no one can buy a magic stone for gold coins, of course, except in special cases. When Jia Yi's family didn't open a store, the income from selling bread was only about 5 gold a year, and then the store was opened, the scale of expansion, plus the continuous introduction of new products, it was less than 10 gold a year, and he couldn't even afford a second-class ticket, and sure enough, magic was not friendly to the poor.

Jia Yi's voice was heard by the shipping officer, and he hurriedly said: "This price is not expensive, if you come late, you can only buy the lowest ticket, and now we have only stopped the ship for a short time, and the highest ticket is sold." ”

Dai Er pulled Jia Yi, Jia Yi spread his hands, and stopped talking, he was already a little familiar with the price of the mage, just subconsciously sighed, and he didn't think about saying another word. But in fact, 10 gold is not an indifferent price for a mage, you can buy a lot of magic materials, enough to burn an ordinary experiment.

In the end, Jia Yi and they bought 5 second-class ferry tickets, the highest one needs magic stones, although Jia Yi brought some, but it is really a bit extravagant to buy ferry tickets, or wait for the future to be generous, but at that time there is no need to take a boat.