After renting a carriage and briefly visiting several important attractions in the city and having lunch, Lawrence returned to St. Sklodowska Cathedral with his new companions. On the way, he discovered this
The dwarf is a warm-hearted and good person except that he talks a little more.
In the afternoon, under the leadership of an official priest, Lawrence and the others went to the White Eagle Federation's consulate in the New Hanseatic Republic to join the contestants who had arrived from other places.
The New Hanseatic Republic is a commercial republic established in the New World by the famous North Sea Chamber of Commerce in the Old World. After the end of the Dark Ages in the Old World, with the formation of various modern countries along the North Sea coast, the free cities originally controlled by the Chamber of Commerce gradually broke away from the Chamber of Commerce.
each country.
At that time, the Age of Discovery had just begun, and the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history, simply concentrated all its efforts on exploring the New World, hoping to find a place to live on the other side of the ocean.
After decades of exploration, struggle, and construction, a small commercial republic has successfully stood on this archipelago with a total area of more than 35,000 square kilometers.
At the same time, I felt that the biggest reason for being squeezed out of the Old Continent was internal disunity and the unreliability of mercenaries and citizen armies. After arriving in the New Continent, the New Hanseatic Republic made huge reforms to address its past shortcomings.
Regarding the former, the Republic abolished a series of policies such as the dual consuls and the one-vote veto system of members of the Grand Council that were left over from the Chamber of Commerce era and were obviously behind the times, and established a set of policies imitating the most advanced Briton Kingdom at the time.
A modern national system to avoid spending too much energy on internal friction.
As for the latter, given that New Hansa was born a small country with a small population, and the casualties after the outbreak of war in the industrial era were simply not something it could bear, so New Hansa simply gave up the idea of organizing a standing army. Instead, it adopted a few
A powerful country establishes itself as a free port to prevent other countries from invading.
It must be said that the consul who proposed this idea at that time was a person who could see the situation clearly, especially when the New Hansa Islands was neither on a major transportation route nor had any precious resources. As a pure trade and financial hub, it was newly born.
The Republic successfully maintained its independence.
Of course, what allowed them to remain independent was not only the balance between the countries in the New and Old Continents and the complete trade network that the merchants had built over hundreds of years, but also their strength.
Although this country has given up its standing army, it does not mean that it has completely given up force. After all, in this world full of extraordinary things, problems can easily arise without the protection of force.
On the one hand, this island country with only about 300,000 people maintains an elite police force of 2,000 people, which can handle a series of incidents such as criminal cases and small-scale supernatural creature invasions.
On the other hand, when the New Hanseatic Republic left the Old World for the New World, in addition to taking away its own forces, it also chose to merge with the North Sea Knights, who were in the same situation as them at the time and were in a dilemma. After having this
After being a famous knight order in the Old World, the New Hanseatic Republic is already one of the best in terms of the extraordinary power of the Star Sea.
Not to mention that after the founding of the country, the New Hanseatic Republic vigorously invited all Orthodox churches to establish activity venues and preach freely on its own land. As a free trade port, the large number of people did attract those churches to establish a foothold here.
Under such a series of operations and management, the New Hansa Republic not only succeeded in establishing a foothold in this place, but also became one of the best countries in the Star Sea. In the many sea beast chaos, the Republic not only successfully defended its territory, but also
It also provided help to other surrounding countries and protected a large number of innocent people.
But all the glory in this case cannot change the fact that this country is a small country. As the capital of this country, it is also the largest city and port. Although the Free Port of New Gdynia is a rich and beautiful city, it is also a city with only 70,000 people.
It is a small city, so the overall area of the city is not very large, and can even be said to be somewhat compact.
This is why Lawrence was able to visit several famous attractions in the city in one morning. The White Eagle Federation's consulate was established around the Waves Square where the Grand Parliament Building is located in the center of the city.
So after riding a carriage for about ten minutes, Lawrence and the others arrived at the Consulate of the White Eagle Federation. The Consulate is a three-story colonial-style building with cream-yellow walls and sky-blue roofs. Surrounded by red roofs
Appears to stand out from the crowd.
After waiting in a living room for five or six minutes, all the contestants had arrived. Unlike what he had imagined before, there were not that many people participating in this competition.
For example, in the Black Iron competition, Lawrence thought there would be hundreds of participants. However, after the staff finished sorting the categories, he discovered that theoretically the largest number of participants in the Black Iron competition was the White Commonwealth.
There are only more than 20 people. Considering that the White Eagle Federation, one of the top countries in the New World, only has more than 20 places, then the total number of participants in the Black Iron level competition will definitely not exceed 500.
After arranging the living room according to different competition levels, the staff of the consulate left. However, before leaving, these staff informed Lawrence that they would mainly fight in small teams of 4-5 people in the black iron level competition this time.
Now these contestants are gathered together to let them get to know each other and select team members.
Most of the people participating in the black iron competition were young people of similar age, so apart from the initial awkwardness, within ten minutes everyone in the living room was chatting together. After an afternoon of getting to know each other.
, five teams were formed.
Lawrence successfully became the captain of one of the teams. In addition to him and the dwarf mechanic named Kog Gear, this team also had a Skaven rogue, a Paladin of the God of Suffering and a
A warrior from the Witcher Guild.
Among them, the paladin of the God of Suffering named John, who was wearing full plate armor, and Leiso, a warrior of the Demon Hunter Guild, had known each other before. After completing their respective studies and training, they formed a group and approached the big city in the federal interior.
Mountain area activities.
In addition to training themselves, they also help those in scattered settlements far away from densely populated areas solve various supernatural-related problems they encounter.
If Lawrence remembered correctly, he had seen the names of these two mentioned in the internal announcement of the Church of Knowledge a while ago as role models for young extraordinary beings, so their characters are definitely strong enough and they are teammates.
trustable.
The reason why they chose Lawrence is the same, because his previous contributions made the two believe that Lawrence is a kind-hearted person. Therefore, they are willing to form a team with someone like Lawrence who matches their three views.
Otherwise, given the strength of the two of them, there are countless people who are willing to team up with them. Among them, there are not necessarily people who seem to be stronger than Lawrence.
The rat wanderer named Raka came to Lawrence on his own initiative, because her surname is also Androk. To be precise, she is a cousin of Fatina who has a good relationship. Before coming here, she had
I learned from my cousin that Lawrence was also going to participate in this competition, so when the staff announced that this Black Iron level competition was a team battle, I came directly to him.
After forming the team, the next week was left for them to get used to each other. The White Eagle Federation rented a plantation in the suburbs as a training ground for everyone. In a tense atmosphere, the time for the competition finally arrived.