"Are you Mr. Gust who will represent the Federation in the competition this year?" After bidding farewell to Seifer and the others, Lawrence walked into St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. After a simple inquiry, a young priest led him
Walking towards the back of the church prayer hall, he asked curiously as he walked.
"Every time people come from us, they have very distinctive looks. For example, my teacher once received a man with white hair like you to participate in the bronze level competition. He said that the man looked very old-fashioned and even had many...
scar, but surprisingly popular with girls——"
"The one you are talking about should be Mr. Geralt, the president of the Witcher Association in Eagle Castle." As soon as Lawrence heard what he said, he thought of a person he met two days ago when he went to the Witcher Association to do business.
After passing this Mr. Geralt, he admired Lawrence's courage and kindness very much, and even said that he could move around more when he had time. "That gentleman is a legendary demon hunter. It's not just his fighting power,
And on the level of his pursuit of women — where do we go now?”
Lawrence, who was chatting and relaxing, suddenly asked, because he found that the priest leading the way was taking him towards the basement, instead of going to the side entrance of the church to take a carriage as he had imagined before.
"Of course we use the space conversion magic circle. Our church's magic circle is underground." Looking at Lawrence's surprised face, the young priest who led the way quickly explained. "This is not a common means of travel, even if
The scepter priest of our church is only allowed to use this magic circle for private purposes once a month unless there is something urgent."
"Of course, I'm just talking about the free quota. If you are willing to pay, as long as the magic circle is idle, then church members and church friendly people can use it. I just paid for it once when I was on family leave." After finishing speaking.
, the young priest quoted a fee, which was basically about five times the cost of a soft sleeper on the train.
"But unfortunately, the places where the space transfer magic circle can go must have the same magic circle, and these stations are even fewer than train stations. So after I took the magic circle last time and took a horse-drawn carriage for a day to get home,
From now on, I will always take a direct train to visit relatives." The young priest shrugged.
Of course, Lawrence also knew that in addition to this point-to-point teleportation magic circle, there is also a teleportation magic circle that can freely teleport people to most places on the planet. Of course, the number of such magic circles is even rarer, and construction
The cost is sky-high, and the cost of activating it once is at least ten times that of this kind of magic circle. Only some big forces will have some for emergency use.
Just as Lawrence was thinking this, they appeared in front of a marble arch. The priest who led the way inserted a bronze plaque in his hand through the small slit on the right, and there was a sound of heavy objects moving from the door.
came from inside. Then, the integrated iron door in the arch slowly descended.
As the iron gate moved, what appeared in front of Lawrence were two small round platforms on the ground that were one palm high and about five meters in diameter. On the platforms, a shape that looked a bit complicated was drawn with materials of various colors.
A magic circle. A stone pillar that reaches the height of a person's chest stands behind the stage, and a transparent crystal ball the size of a head is inlaid on it.
"Okay, just stand in the center of the magic circle on the left, and look at me next." The young priest said, and when he pressed his hands on top of the crystal ball, Lawrence was also in the center of the magic circle.
Stand ready.
"Let me see, by the way, it's right here." After playing with the crystal ball for a while, the young priest raised his head. "You can set off now, you just need to stand still. Many people are using this thing for the first time.
You may feel a little dizzy sometimes, this is normal, you don’t need to worry.”
After saying that, the magic circle was activated. A bright and dazzling white light filled Lawrence's field of vision, which forced him to close his eyes. In the next few seconds, he completely lost his vision and could only hear drifting in his ears.
There were some small but very noisy sounds.
But soon everything became quiet, and the light outside dimmed. Then a voice came from not far away: "The young man with white hair standing in the center of the magic circle, quickly leave the magic circle where you are now and don't block it.
Other people’s paths.”
"What?" Lawrence opened his eyes and found that he was in a room similar to the underground of St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. However, his current location was the one on the right of the two magic circles, and the operation
The person holding the crystal ball is a middle-aged priestess.
"Yes, I'll come down now." Lawrence said as he walked out of the magic circle and walked towards the open door. As soon as he went out, he saw an unattractive young priest with wheat-colored skin next to the door, taking a nap against the wall.
There is a sign with a circle of flowers glued around it, and the words "Welcome Mr. Lawrence August" are written in gold powder on it.
After discovering that Lawrence had come out, the young priest looked at him first, and then said in a confirming tone as if he had discovered something. "Sir, are you Mr. August?"
"Yes, I am Lawrence August." Lawrence nodded slightly, then pointed to the sign in the priest's hand and asked, "Excuse me, is this-"
"Ah, I'm here specifically to welcome you. You can call me Ivan." The priest looked at Lawrence with eyes filled with a kind of excitement unique to star-struck fans. "In order to welcome you, I defeated him in the debate.
I had to fight five other opponents to get this opportunity.”
"This sounds difficult enough." Lawrence replied. Every larger organization has many and complex personnel, so internal competition and contradictions are naturally inevitable. In order to resolve these contradictions and prevent the organization from collapsing from within, each group
There is a process for solving problems within the organization.
The simplest among them is naturally negotiation. Organizations that tend to be just or neutral will choose to present facts and reason, and sometimes they will directly give orders. However, evil organizations are much more complicated in this regard. They will do everything from intimidation to deception.
In some cases, problems can be solved through civilized communication. But in other cases, especially when everyone is competing for something, communication is not so effective. In this case, competition is inevitable.
Naturally, each organization has different styles and different methods of competition. The most distinctive method of competition in Knowledge Church is that everyone gets together to determine a certain direction and then asks and answers questions to each other. As time goes by, the questions everyone raises will become more and more complex.
It is becoming more and more difficult and complex, so completing such a discussion is very energy-consuming for everyone involved.
"But this is very worthwhile to me." The priest seemed very excited. As a clergyman of the Church of Knowledge, he naturally accepted this opportunity to exchange knowledge and did not feel that it was a hard work.
What's more, he is the winner of the competition. "By the way, can you sign your name for me?"
As Ivan said this, he took out a tightly rolled magazine and a pen. Only then did Lawrence realize that the magazine he was holding was the same issue of the "Federal Journal of Medicine" in which Lawrence had previously published a paper on disinfection.
"Okay." Looking at the first fan he met, Lawrence happily pressed the magazine against the wall, and then picked up the pen. "Do you need to write any message?"
"Just sign." Priest Ivan said as he watched Lawrence turn to the title page and start signing, "You don't know how much of a sensation your article has caused here. The entire Star Sea has a tropical rainforest climate, so
Once people are injured in this place, the probability of infection is much greater than in other places. And the point you put forward can be said to have saved countless lives."
"This compliment is really too much -" Lawrence said humbly, while handing the signed magazine to the priest. "I am just an ordinary person who made a small contribution by chance.