After satisfying Lawrence's wish to sign, the young priest named Ivan looked more lively and less restrained than before. So when they walked out of the basement, he began to introduce Lawrence enthusiastically.
The situation of this place.
"The place where we are now is called the Free Port of New Gdynia, located on the largest island of the New Hansa Islands. And this church is called St. Sklodowska Cathedral, which is also the main church of our Church of Knowledge in the Sea of Stars Diocese.
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After hearing the introduction, Lawrence nodded. This means that this church is of the same level as St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. Unlike the St. Gutenberg's Cathedral in Eagle Fort, the building here looks lighter.
Quite a few.
Although the design style of the entire church is still the simple Bauhaus style architecture common in Knowledge Church, all the buildings in this church seem to have undergone some structural modifications to suit the local climate. For example, the windows are larger and the walls are taller.
It is thin and has a pointed roof for easy drainage. At the same time, the clever internal design allows a cool breeze to blow through the room at all times, taking away the stuffy feeling unique to tropical areas.
When they left the main hall of the church and followed the covered corridor to the three-story building behind the church with beige walls and red spires, Lawrence finally saw the outside scenery through the window of the dormitory corridor.
.
"This is so beautiful." Lawrence walked to the window and held his hands on the window sill with a soft sigh. What appeared in front of him through the window was an extremely beautiful scene of a tropical island.
St. Sklodowska Cathedral is located on a high ground on the seaside of this small island, and below is a city hidden in green plants. Unlike a modern city like Eagle Castle, this city is full of colonial charm.
Style, most of the buildings are two or three-story buildings with red tiles and white walls, and a few magnificent buildings are dotted in various locations in the city.
Farther away is an excellent deep-water port semi-surrounded by a peninsula. It is filled with ships of all sizes, including sailboats with white sails and steam-engine sailboats with chimneys standing in the middle of the hull. However,
The steam ships entering the port did not light their boilers, but were helped to dock by small steam barges emitting black smoke.
On the edge of the city are farms and plantations neatly planted with various plants, and further away are lush tropical rainforests, the sun-drenched blue sea and white sandy beaches. The entire
The scenery looked like those tourist promotion photos of Caribbean island countries that Lawrence had seen in his previous life.
It's just that unlike those promotional photos of tourist spots in previous lives that were taken from selected angles or even refined, the island where Lawrence is now can be said to be beautiful in all directions, 360° with no blind spots.
"It is indeed beautiful." Priest Ivan, who was following Lawrence, said after hearing his words. "I am a new immigrant from the Kingdom of Rurik. At that time, my parents and I originally planned to go north to the White Eagle Federation.
But when we stopped here, we were attracted by the bright sunshine here, so we stayed.”
"After all, even in the Kingdom of Rurik, my hometown is very far to the north. In that place, it stays there all year round, and the sun only shines for half a year. Nothing attracts us more than the sun."
After sighing with emotion, Lawrence was taken into a room on the second floor. The structure of this room was very consistent with the structure of his previous dormitory in St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. Lawrence even doubted the knowledge.
Does the church have a unified internal structure for its dormitories in various places?
However, this does not mean that the dormitory here is a replica of the dormitory at St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. For example, the dormitory here has a small balcony. In addition, there is a snow-white mosquito net on the bed.
In addition to these common things, Lawrence also saw some obviously strange things in this room, such as bamboo mats draped on chairs and spread on the bed.
"Ah, that's a summer mat." When talking about the word "liang mat", Priest Ivan specifically chose the Chinese language. "This is a very good cooling tool, which was passed over from Cathay in the Far East of the Old Continent. Because
It's very suitable for the climate here, and it's easy to clean up after using it, so it's very popular here in the Sea of Stars."
"There are people from Cathay here? Are there many of them?" Lawrence was a little surprised, because in his impression, those Easterners basically only moved around in the west of the New World and would not come to the east.
"Not only there are, but there are quite a few." Priest Ivan nodded, "Their Xinzhou Federation has an enclave on the southernmost isthmus of the New Continent, and there are also several islands in the south of the Sea of Stars belonging to the Xinzhou Federation.
Continental Federation. And they use these islands and enclaves as hubs for trade with us."
After Priest Ivan left, Lawrence began to pack his luggage. After packing, he went directly to the church to relax and have lunch.
Out of the desire to do as the Romans do in the country, Lawrence did not wear his stiff black woolen dress, which would have been too hot in the sunshine here. Instead, like the locals, he wore a pair of light-colored trousers, a white shirt on his upper body, and a hat on his head.
Low straw hat.
Just as he got dressed and walked out of the dormitory door, the door next door opened at the same time. A man who looked like a child but had a slightly bigger head walked out wearing printed shorts and a white vest.
Behind him was a magic steam robot that looked like a burly man. From the stabbing blades on the robot's body, it could be seen that this iron guy was not easy to mess with.
"Hey, big man, are you also here to participate in the competition among the countries in the New World?" The man raised his head and asked enthusiastically after seeing Lawrence. Looking at the goatee on his chin and big eyes, Lawrence immediately realized
Now this person should be a dwarf, and a mechanic among dwarves.
Gnomes, like dwarves and ratmen, are intelligent creatures that are relatively close to humans. Their personalities are much more flexible than dwarves, and their behavior is more like humans. Most importantly, they are quite talented in mechanical manufacturing and technological research.
Specialties, most of the origins of extraordinary professions related to machinery come from them.
These professions that combine science and magic are not weak. For example, in the Republic of Xinzhou, there is a hero-level dwarf mechanic. When controlling his artificial titan robot named Gundam, his combat power is even better than that of ordinary legends.
Even more powerful.
"Yes, I came to participate in the competition, and I was assigned to the black iron group." Lawrence answered politely, but before he could finish his words, he saw the dwarf extending his right hand to him.
"Ha, are you from the black iron team? I am also from the black iron team. I think we should fight side by side this time." After shaking Lawrence's stretched out hand, the dwarf became very familiar with him.
He introduced himself, "Nice to meet you. My real name is a bit too long for you humans. So you can call me Cog Gear, or just call me Cog."
"Laurence August, you can just call me Lawrence." Lawrence also introduced himself. As for the dwarfs, it is normal not to introduce their full names. After all, their names are too long and too complicated compared to other intelligent creatures.
. So when interacting with other intelligent creatures, they will choose to use a short name.
"Lawrence, can I call you that?" After Lawrence nodded, Cogg continued. "Did you just come here today too? I think we can go out for a couple of walks together and then have lunch."
"This is a good idea. After all, New Gdynia is one of the best vacation spots in the entire New World. It will be a bit regretful not to go around after coming here. But we have to come back quickly after we go around twice and have lunch." Lawrence
He nodded, then took out a notice from his body that Priest Ivan had just handed to him and said, "Because starting from this afternoon, our federal participants will go to the competition venue to register, and then gather together for a while.
Let’s get used to it, so don’t be late.”
"You're right, we do need to go back quickly, so let's set off now!" After saying that, Cogg and Lawrence walked downstairs to the dormitory.