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At 4:00 in the morning, before the sun had risen, the sea was still shrouded in gray haze.
Port Gallon, sprawled along the coastline, looked like a sleeping bull. The concrete piers jutting outward were its horns, while the dense sprawl of uneven buildings pressed against the shore formed its bloated belly.
The settlement, perched on the alluvial plain along the Everflowing River, was the Xilande Empire’s largest settlement on the eastern coast, and also its largest port.
According to posts Sisi had updated on the forum, an astonishing 1,000,000 people lived there, more than the combined population of the Camel Kingdom.
Judging by scale alone, neither Silvermoon Bay nor Ring Island’s port could compare. Next to it, they were nothing more than fleas. Yet in terms of living standards, one needed only look at the tightly packed, ant-nest-like houses and shanties to feel the suffocating hardship.
Of course, saying that this place consisted of nothing but shacks would be slander against the Xilande Empire. Anyone disembarking here with eyes in their head could not possibly miss the straight concrete piers or the few...
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