Close your eyes and become the strongest adventurer

Chapter 36 Strong from the Heart

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

The chef squatted down and turned an unremarkable tuna on the floor of the freezer.

The next moment, the empty wall parted to the two sides, revealing a compartment of about [-] square meters.

Captain Thorfin nodded his thanks to the cook.

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

The compartment trembled slightly, and there was a slight sense of weightlessness under the feet, as if it was moving down rapidly. Xuan Yuan speculated that the operation method might be similar to the elevator in the previous life.

On the wall, a constantly jumping figure appeared.

Now, Xuan Yuan has reacted.

Whether ordering pork chop noodles or a small cake presented by the other party, there is a hidden code behind it.

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

The dishes are right, but the gestures are wrong.

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

It's no wonder that when the other party saw his gesture, he suddenly 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, 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 with a smile on his face:
"Xuan Yuan, congratulations on passing the screening."

"Welcome to the real adventurer's guild!"

Xuan Yuan was confused and walked out of the cubicle slowly.

The next moment, he was shocked.

What caught the eye was an open square with several kilometers in length and width.

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

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

Between the corridors on each floor, there are no stairs or support columns, and they all float out of thin air.

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

There are more than 20 white columns on the square, extending upwards beyond the endless darkness.

Can be seen from time to time.

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

Turning around, I realized that Xuan Yuan himself had just walked out from the bottom of a white cylinder that connected to the sky.

A floating fountain is constantly flipping over the square. From time to time, a few gorgeous small fish jump up on the water, leaving rainbow-like trails, which slowly dissipate after dozens of seconds.

There are spherical 'light sources' floating everywhere in the air, and each one exudes a refreshing soft light.

On the stone square, various beautiful giant landscape trees are planted.

There are also some single-family shops scattered irregularly, and many adventurers enter and exit these shops.

Three or five groups of adventurers are sitting or standing in the square to communicate.

It can even be seen that there are many formal scholars sitting sideways on brooms or various levitating tools, as well as some magic professions holding staffs and wearing robes.

Or sit or lie on the ground and float in the air, chatting with fellow adventurers on the ground.

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

From time to time, some adventurers stepped onto the altar, disappeared into the aperture, and new adventurers kept coming out of these apertures.

Scenes of fantasy and magic intertwined.

Xuanyuan was in a daze, as if he had stepped into an unreal magical realm.

Although Xuan Yuan knew that there were mysticism and magic in this world, this was his first real contact with a fantasy style that was completely different from technological concrete.

Soon, Xuan Yuan settled down and said curiously:
"Why do you say that this is the real Adventurer's Guild?"

Captain Thorfin pointed to the well-equipped high-level adventurers on the square, as well as the spellcasting professions that can be seen everywhere.

"The adventurer's guild you see outside is just a cover, mainly responsible for dealing with all kinds of chores related to the life of adventurers and the outside world."

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

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

"Sign up to participate in the training of new instructors and survive successfully, which is the first test for apprentice adventurers."

"The second test is more hidden. It depends on whether you can find the real adventurer's guild."

"In this city, there are many restaurants with the same name."

"Such as [Old Fantou's House of Adventurers], [Little Fantou's House of Adventurers], [Female Fantou's House of Adventurers], etc."

"The incongruity can be perceived in various ways."

"For example, some restaurants hardly see diners but there are always people coming in and out. In some restaurants, people often go in and then never show up. If you ask the person, the person will insist that you read it wrong."

"For example, although the names of these restaurants are the same, the names of each dish on each menu are completely different, but there is only the dish [Meat Rib Noodles], and each restaurant uses the exact same name. , and you can get almost the exact same reaction from the chef and so on."

"In short, there are three main ways to enter the 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, and be brought in by the team after being directly invited by a powerful adventure team to become a member."

"The last one is to get the approval of the guild's newcomer examiners through personal performance, and be introduced by the examiners."

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan smiled and said:
"I belong to the third type, right?"

"Then, what made me get your approval, my lord examiner?"

Thorfinn was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly:

"Yes, as expected of a newcomer who can be recognized by me."

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

After laughing, Captain Tolfin took out a notebook, pointed to it and read one by one:

"First of all, you were able to survive the desperate situation where even iron-level adventurers could not escape without injury, and reported to the guild a mysterious monster that has existed in the dungeon for a long time, which proves your strong ability to escape."

"Secondly, you were able to stun me, an iron-level two-star adventurer, and then acted very calmly in my subsequent temptation with the sword. It not only proves your strength from the side, but also shows that you are not the kind of person who will fall into a battle as soon as you encounter a battle. Those who panic, or those who only know how to run away."

"In the end, when faced with my invitation to a duel, you dared to admit it, chose to apologize in public, did not fight bravely and did not care about face, and showed me your character."

"To sum up, you have met the criteria to be recommended."

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"Then do I still have a treat now?"

"After all, if I treat guests now, does that count as bribing the examiner?"

Captain Thorfin pointed to his face, where Xuan Yuan stepped on him yesterday:
"Please! You must please!"

"This is not bribing the examiner, it is compensation for my mental damage!"

"Don't try to renege!"

After speaking, both of them couldn't help laughing.

Such an interruption.

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

Next, Captain Tolfin took Xuan Yuan and found a random restaurant in the square.

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

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

Xuan Yuan doesn't drink, and Captain Torfin doesn't care either.

There is no culture of persuading people to drink in another world, and whether to drink or not is a personal choice.

Because drinking by yourself means pulling others to drink with you, which would be considered an extremely serious provocation and insult in a different world, and would easily lead to a fight to the death.

When the two were eating, Xuan Yuan asked:

"If you can't find the real adventurer's guild, what will happen?"

Captain Thorfin shook his head:
"It means that they will never be able to walk on the road of being strong in their entire lives, so they will just work hard for the rest of their lives in an ordinary way."

"Work hard to fight low-level monsters every day, work hard to collect medicinal materials and plants in the dungeon, and work hard to complete various low-level commissions."

"Even if you spend your whole life working hard, you can at most become a [pseudo-iron-level adventurer], and you will stop here for the rest of your life."

Xuan Yuan asked curiously:
"What is [pseudo-iron-level adventurer]?"

Captain Thorfin took a big gulp of draft beer, cut off a piece of beef and chewed it in his mouth:

"Do you know the adventurer hierarchy?"

Xuan Yuan shook his head.

Captain Torfin swallowed the beef and explained:
"First, apprentice adventurers, then iron-level, copper-level, silver-level, gold-level adventurers and so on."

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

After all, Captain Thorfinn glanced at Xuan Yuan:
"When you are an adventurer at your age, you usually want to become an iron-level adventurer before the age of 22, and then go to the Adventurer University?"

See Xuanyuan nodded.

Captain Thorfin continued:

"Wait until you can successfully defeat the monsters on the third floor of [Sketos Dungeon] alone or with your 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 official assessment of the guild."

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

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

"Pseudo-iron-level adventurers——referring to those adventurers who cannot reach the iron-level in strength and rely solely on doing tasks, accumulating points, and accumulating qualifications."

"They haven't been able to find where the real adventurer's guild is, so naturally they can't participate in the real assessment."

"The adventurer's guild outside will give them a random symbolic assessment when they meet the standard, and then issue a fake iron-level adventurer certificate."

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

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

"Going to the University of Adventurers to take the entrance test will also be rejected by the University of Adventurers in some clever way."

"He will never understand in his life, why?"

"It will only be mistaken for the difficulty of enrolling in the University of Adventurers, he has not worked hard enough, or he is simply unlucky."

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

"His life is already doomed."

Xuan Yuan couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the words:

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

Captain Thorfin shook the draft beer in the cup and said lightly:

"In the dungeon, only stronger monsters will burst out with stronger equipment."

"For example, you can't get a piece of equipment that can easily kill slimes in a slime area with a burst of luck."

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

"At the same time, the strength of monsters on each floor of the dungeon has shown a jump-like increase."

"The dungeon will not give you room to grow stronger step by step, but deliberately creates a huge gap in strength on each floor, just to catch you off guard."

"Facing these monsters in the dungeon, only the same level of equipment and strong personal talents are far from enough."

"Let me give you an example."

"For example, our [Sketos Dungeon]."

"For an ordinary adult male, no matter how much sophisticated equipment you wear, or how complete the equipment is, if you don't have abnormal talent, you don't have the sky-high price equipment that comes out of higher-level dungeons."

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

"It is absolutely impossible to defeat the gatekeeper at the end of the third underground floor, and it is impossible to enter the fourth underground floor."

"However, if you can find the real Adventurer's Guild, everything will be different."

Speaking of it.

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

"See that altar, and those adventurers who come and go in and out of the light circle?"

Xuan Yuan nodded.

Captain Thorfinn smiled and said:
"These apertures are the basis for the adventurer's guild to settle down, and it is also the core of the guild's ability to continuously cultivate powerful adventurers."

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

"There are Warriors Guild, Mage Guild, Scholars Guild, and the Thieves Guild I mentioned to you before."

Having said that, Captain Torfin took a meaningful look at the bow on Xuan Yuan's back:
"Of course, there is also the Archer Guild."

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

"I believe you also know that if you didn't practice arrows all the time since you were a child, the hit rate of bows and arrows in the fierce battles in the dungeon is very touching."

"In addition, the monsters in the dungeon are very powerful. No matter how hard you practice your archery skills, it won't be of great help to the battle except to make your aim better."

"Because you are just an ordinary human being."

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

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

"However, if you can successfully pass the test of the Archers Guild, you can change jobs and become a real archer."

"The Archer's Guild teaches you various powerful skills related to bows and arrows."

"These skills and training can make your strength grow by leaps and bounds."

"It's different from talent and equipment."

"This strength is what you can truly grasp and continue to grow."

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan felt a little emotional.

The adventurer's guild in this world, all kinds of invisible tests and routines are really one after another, which is really hard to guard against.

Xuan Yuan asked:
"The reason why the guild doesn't share these professional guilds with all adventurers and set up various tests is because the resources that the guild can invest in training are limited, right?"

Captain Thorfin nodded:
"You're only partly right, and more importantly."

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

"No matter how many weak people there are, they are all cannon fodder that cannot decide the outcome in a high-level dungeon battle."

"What the Adventurer's Guild really needs are those who face invincible enemies, but still have a firm will and awareness, and dare to challenge and surpass."

"Talent is just one of the dimensions."

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

"It's just the weak who are limited by their own talents. Once they leave their talents, or their talents are restrained by the opponent, they will be nothing."

Having said that, Captain Thorfinn has finished his meal.

He took out a tissue and wiped his mouth.

He reached out and patted Xuan Yuan on the shoulder.

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

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

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

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

"Xuan Yuan, keep going! Work hard to become stronger!"

"Okay, live on!"

After finishing speaking, Instructor Tolfin turned and left.

Leaving Xuan Yuan sitting there, thoughtful.

(End of this chapter)