Close your eyes and become the strongest adventurer

Xuan Yuan and Captain Thorfinn followed the chef through the kitchen to a cold storage at the end of the kitchen.

The chef squatted down and turned a mediocre tuna on the floor of the freezer.

The next moment, the empty wall split to both sides, revealing a compartment of about twenty square meters.

Captain Thorfinn nodded his thanks to the cook.

Take Xuanyuan into the compartment, and the small door closes automatically.

The compartment trembled slightly, and there was a slight feeling of weightlessness under the feet. It seemed to be moving downwards rapidly. Xuan Yuan guessed that the operation method might be similar to the elevator in the previous life.

On the wall, a number kept jumping.

Now, Xuanyuan has reacted.

Whether you order pork chop noodles or a small cake as a gift, there is a hidden code behind it.

I couldn't help but think of the first day I went to that restaurant for dinner.

The food was ordered correctly, but the gestures were wrong.

At that time, his communication with the chef was not on the same channel at all.

No wonder, after the other party saw his gesture, he burst into laughter.

Looking back now, it's a bit embarrassing.

When the number in the compartment showed 312, it finally stopped.

The door slowly opened to both sides.

The sound was not noisy, but Xuan Yuan could still feel that there were many people outside.

Captain Thorfinn strode out of the compartment.

Turning his head, he opened his arms to Xuan Yuan and smiled:

"Xuanyuan, congratulations on passing the screening."

"Welcome to the real Adventurer's Guild!"

Xuanyuan was confused and slowly walked out of the compartment.

The next moment, he was shocked.

What comes into view is an open square several kilometers long and wide.

The circular open square is suspended in the void, surrounded by rings of solid wood corridors, forming a huge sphere that forms a satellite ring around the planet.

Houses of different sizes are attached to different circular corridors, and they are rotating together with the circular corridors.

There are no stairs or supporting columns between the corridors on each floor, they are all floating in thin air.

The area outside the corridor is filled with darkness that swallows up all light.

There are more than twenty white columns in the square, extending upward into the endless darkness.

Can be seen from time to time.

A small door opened at the bottom of the white pillar, and people kept walking out of it.

When I turned around, I realized that Xuan Yuan himself had just stepped out from the bottom of a white column that connected to the sky.

A suspended fountain was flipping over the square, and several colorful little fish jumped up from time to time on the water, leaving rainbow-like trails that slowly dissipated after dozens of seconds.

There are spherical 'light sources' suspended everywhere in the sky, each one emitting a soft and refreshing light.

Various beautiful giant landscape trees are planted in the stone square.

There are some independent shops scattered irregularly, and many adventurers go in and out of these shops.

Groups of three to five adventurers were sitting or standing in the square and communicating.

You can even see many formal scholars sitting sideways on brooms or various levitation tools, as well as some magic professions holding staffs and wearing robes.

Sit or lie down in the air, chatting with fellow adventurers on the ground.

In the middle of the hall, there is a stone altar with dozens of suspended light circles neatly arranged on it.

From time to time, adventurers would walk up to the altar and disappear into the circles of light, while new adventurers would constantly come out of these circles of light.

Scenes of fantasy and magic intertwined.

Xuanyuan was in a trance, as if he had entered an unreal magical realm.

Although Xuan Yuan knew that this world had the existence of mysticism and magic, this was his first real contact with a fantasy style that was completely different from technological concrete.

Soon, Xuan Yuan calmed down and said curiously:

"Why do you say this is the real Adventurer's Guild?"

Captain Thorfinn pointed at the high-level adventurers with sophisticated equipment in the square, as well as the spellcasters who could be seen everywhere.

"The Adventurer's Guild you see outside is just a cover. It is mainly responsible for handling various chores related to adventurers' life in the outside world."

"The underground is the real adventurer's guild."

"After officially registering as a trainee adventurer, there are two invisible tests."

"Signing up for training with new instructors and surviving successfully is the first test for trainee adventurers."

"The second test is more subtle and depends on whether you can find the real Adventurer's Guild."

"There are a lot of restaurants with the same names in this city."

"For example, [Old Fantou's Adventurer's Home], [Little Fantou's Adventurer's Home], [Female Fantou's Adventurer's Home], etc."

“The dissonance can be detected in various ways.”

"For example, some restaurants rarely see diners but people are always coming in and out. Some restaurants often have people coming in and then not showing up. If you ask the other party, they will insist that you are wrong."

"For example, although the names of these restaurants are similar, the names of every dish on the menu of each restaurant are completely different, except for the dish [Pork Cutlet Noodles]. Each restaurant uses the exact same name. If you order it from any restaurant, , and get almost the same reaction from the chef, etc.”

"In short, there are three main ways to enter a real Adventurer's Guild."

"One is to rely on keen observation and strong intelligence to find the correct way to enter alone."

"One is to rely on talent or luck. After being directly invited to become a member of a powerful adventure team, you are brought in by the team."

"The last one is to gain recognition from the guild's new recruit examiner through personal performance and be introduced by the examiner."

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan smiled and said:

"I belong to the third type, right?"

"So, what makes me gain your approval, Mr. Examiner?"

Thorfinn was stunned for a moment, then laughed:

"Not bad, you are worthy of being recognized as a newcomer by me."

"Your reaction speed and receptivity are very strong, which is a good thing."

After laughing, Captain Thorfinn took out a notebook, pointed at it and read out one by one:

"First of all, you were able to survive without any injuries in a desperate situation that even iron-level adventurers were unable to escape, and you reported to the guild a mysterious monster that has existed in the dungeon for a long time, which proves your strong escape ability."

"Secondly, you were able to stun me, an iron-level two-star adventurer, and showed very calmness when I tried to swing my sword later. Not only does it prove your strength, but it also shows that you are not the kind of person who gets into trouble as soon as you encounter a battle. A panicked person, or a coward who only knows how to run away.”

"Finally, when faced with my invitation to a duel, you had the courage to admit it, chose to apologize in public, and didn't care about face if you didn't fight. You showed me your character."

"To sum up, you have met the criteria for being recommended."

Xuanyuan nodded:

"Then do I still want to treat you?"

"After all, if I treat you now, does it count as bribing the examiner?"

Captain Thorfin pointed to the place on his face where Xuan Yuan stepped on yesterday:

"Please! You must please!"

"This is not about bribing the examiner, it is about compensating for my mental damages!"

"Don't even think about defaulting on your debt!"

After saying that, both of them couldn't help laughing.

Such an interruption.

The atmosphere that had become somewhat serious and depressing became relaxed and happy again.

Next, Captain Thorfinn took Xuan Yuan to a random restaurant in the square.

The two sat down at a small table outside the store.

He ordered a glass of cold beer and a large steak set, while Xuan Yuan ordered a glass of iced lemon juice and a mutton chop and vegetable set.

Xuan Yuan doesn’t drink, and Captain Thorfinn doesn’t care.

There is no culture of persuading people to drink in other worlds. Drinking or not is a personal choice.

Because when you drink, you have to drag others to drink with you. In another world, it will be considered an extremely serious provocation and insult, and it can easily lead to a fight to the death.

While the two were eating, Xuan Yuan asked:

"What will happen if the real Adventurer's Guild is never found?"

Captain Thorfinn shook his head:

"It means that they will never be able to embark on the path of becoming strong in their entire lives, and they can just spend their lives with ordinary hard work."

"Every day I work hard to defeat low-level monsters, collect medicinal materials and plants in the dungeon, and complete various low-level commissions."

"Even if you spend your whole life working hard, the most you can do is become a [pseudo-iron level adventurer], and you will stop there in your lifetime."

Xuan Yuan said curiously:

"What is a [Pseudo-Iron Level Adventurer]?"

Captain Thorfinn took a big sip of draft beer, cut off a piece of beef, put it in his mouth and chewed:

"Do you know the adventurer hierarchy?"

Xuan Yuan shook his head.

Captain Thorfinn swallowed the beef and explained:

"First there are apprentice adventurers, then iron-level, bronze-level, silver-level, gold-level adventurers and so on."

"Iron-level adventurers are what people often call—official adventurers."

After saying that, Captain Thorfinn glanced at Xuan Yuan:

"People of your age who become adventurers usually want to become an iron-level adventurer before the age of 22 and then go to Adventurer University, right?"

Xuan Yuan nodded.

Captain Thorfinn continued:

"Wait until you can successfully defeat the monsters on the third floor of [Sktos Dungeon] alone or with teammates."

"It means that your strength has reached the minimum level of an iron-level adventurer. After accumulating mission points, you can apply to participate in the guild's official assessment."

"Iron-level adventurers are divided into one to five stars based on their strength."

"For example, I am an iron-level two-star adventurer, and my corresponding strength is that I can conquer monsters on the fifth floor of [Sktos Dungeon] with my team."

"Pseudo-iron-level adventurers - refers to those adventurers who cannot reach iron-level strength and rely solely on completing tasks, accumulating points, and accumulating qualifications to get there."

"They have never been able to find where the real Adventurer's Guild is, so naturally they cannot participate in the real assessment."

"The adventurer guild outside will randomly conduct a symbolic assessment for them when they meet the standards, and issue them a pseudo-iron level adventurer certificate."

"Generally speaking, it is impossible to become a pseudo-iron level adventurer before the age of 22 simply by completing tasks and accumulating points."

"Even if someone succeeds in becoming a pseudo-iron level adventurer before the age of 22 due to talent advantages or some other reasons."

"If you go to Adventurer University to take the entrance test, you will be rejected by Adventurer University in some clever way."

"He will never understand in his lifetime why?"

"I would just mistakenly think that the difficulty of entering the Adventurer University is too high, that he doesn't work hard enough, or that he just has bad luck."

"In fact, the moment he couldn't find a real adventurer's guild and drifted with the crowd became a pseudo-iron level adventurer."

"His life is already doomed."

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"Why do you say that if you can't find a true adventurer's guild, your life is doomed?"

Captain Thorfinn shook the draft beer in his cup and said lightly:

"In the dungeon, stronger equipment will only be dropped by stronger monsters."

"For example, you can't be in the slime area and get a piece of equipment that can easily kill slimes by luck."

"Monsters of the same level will only drop equipment of the same level."

"At the same time, the strength of monsters on each floor of the dungeon has increased dramatically."

"The dungeon will not give you the space to become stronger step by step, but deliberately create a huge gap in strength on each floor, just to catch you off guard."

"Faced with the underground For these monsters in the city, only having the same level of equipment and stronger personal talents is far from enough. "

"Let me give you an example."

"For example, our [Sctos Dungeon]. "

"For an ordinary adult male, no matter how many sophisticated equipment you wear and how complete the equipment is, if you don't have abnormal talent and the sky-high equipment that explodes from higher-level dungeons."

"If you only have ordinary talents, being able to enter the third underground floor is the limit."

"It is impossible to beat the gatekeeper at the end of the third underground floor, and you can't enter the fourth underground floor."

"But if you can find a real adventurer's guild, everything will be different."

Speaking of this.

Captain Thorfinn raised his hand and pointed to the circular altar on the square:

"Did you see that altar and the adventurers going in and out of the light circle?"

Xuanyuan nodded.

Captain Thorfinn smiled and said:

"These light circles are the foundation of the Adventurer's Guild, and they are also the core of the Guild's ability to continuously cultivate powerful adventurers."

"Each light circle represents a teleportation array leading to a professional guild."

"There are warrior guilds, mage guilds, scholar guilds, and the thieves guild I mentioned to you before, etc."

At this point, Captain Thorfinn looked at the bow on Xuanyuan's back meaningfully:

"Of course, there are also archer guilds."

"You now have a longbow from the dungeon as a weapon."

"I believe you also know that if you hadn't practiced archery all year round since childhood, the hit rate of the bow and arrow in the fierce battle in the dungeon would be very touching."

"In addition, the monsters in the dungeon are very powerful. No matter how hard you practice archery, , except for making your aim better, it will not bring much help in battle. "

"Because, you are just an ordinary human being."

"Your body determines the upper limit of your strength."

"So, you are just a warrior who uses a bow as a weapon, not a real archer."

"But if you can successfully pass the test of the Archer Guild, you can change your job to become a real archer."

"The Archer Guild teaches you all kinds of powerful skills related to bows and arrows."

"These skills and training can make your strength soar."

"It's different from talent and equipment."

"This power is what you can really grasp and continue to grow."

Hearing this, Xuanyuan was a little emotional.

The Adventurer Guild in this world, the invisible tests and routines, are really one after another, which is really hard to guard against.

Xuanyuan asked:

"The reason why the guild does not share these professional guilds with all adventurers and sets up various tests is because the resources that the guild can invest in training are limited, right?"

Captain Thorfinn nodded:

"You are only partially right, what is more important is."

"What the guild really needs is not the weaklings produced by the assembly line."

"No matter how many weaklings there are, they are cannon fodder that cannot determine the outcome in high-level dungeon battles."

"What the Adventurer Guild really needs are those who face invincible enemies, still have firm will and awareness, dare to constantly challenge and surpass strong people."

"Talent is just one of the dimensions."

"Those who think that the strength of their natural talent is enough to decide everything."

"They are just weaklings limited by their own talents. Once they leave their talents, or their talents are restrained by the other party, they are nothing."

At this point, Captain Thorfinn has finished his meal.

He took out a tissue and wiped his mouth.

He reached out and patted Xuanyuan on the shoulder.

"No matter how weak your gray talent is, or how powerful the secret hidden in your talent is."

"These are not the decisive factors that determine whether you will become a strong or weak person in the future."

"For many years, the guild and the dungeon have fought countless terrifying and desperate battles, and after countless sacrifices, they finally got a painful lesson soaked in countless blood:"

"Strength comes from the heart of a person, not from the outside."

"Xuanyuan, keep going! Try to become stronger!"

"Be good, live!"

After that, Instructor Thorfinn turned and left.

Leaving Xuanyuan sitting there, thinking.