Chapter 2 adventure guild

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The doorbell rang, followed by the door opening. Rayleigh and Shakky walked into the building that had a sign that read "Guild" in front of it. Since on the front a notification sign reads open. Rayleigh and Shakky impolite went straight into it.

By the time they both entered. What they saw was an inner building not much different from a restaurant or bar.

The inside of the building has a size of about 100 square meters with various kinds of furniture. There is a dining table that can be used by 8 people totaling 4 units located in the middle and at the back of the building, there is a long sofa that can be used by 6 people totaling 3 units located on the left side of the building.

There are two large doors located at the rear of the building where one door is on the right side of the back of the building while the other is on the left side of the building with a sign that says "Entrance" on the left door while on the right side it says "Exit".

There is a long table that looks like an administrative desk or similar to the usual table in the bar to the right of the building, and the last one is the stairs that lead directly to the second floor of the building.

"Hey, Shaky. Do you feel anything strange here?" Rayleigh asked with a smirk on his face.

"Strange?" Shakky asked confused about it.

"Take a good look at the size of the inside of this room" Rayleigh paused and continued in a more excited tone like a child discovering interesting things, "The size between the inside and the outside has no balance at all"

Shakky looked back for a moment, "I guess so" Shakky nodded, "On the outside of this building… The building itself looks very small. But the inside—"

"Oh? New offender?"

Before Shakky could finish her sentence. Suddenly a male voice caught their attention.

Rayleigh and Shakky immediately turned their attention to a man who was currently standing behind the administration desk smiling at the two of them with a friendly smile like a receptionist.

The man has the appearance of a height of about 185 centimeters, a slender body, has long black hair, white skin, neatly arranged eyebrows, long eyelashes, and beautiful blue pupils. The man wearing casual clothes while supporting his body looked at Rayleigh and Shakky.

"Young man, is this a bar or maybe a restaurant?" Rayleigh was the one who started the conversation first as he walked towards the young man followed by Shakky beside him with a look of interest.

"That restaurant and bar is one of the functions of this place." The young man replied.

"One of the functions?" Shakky raised his brow.

"This place itself is called the Adventurer's Guild. I am the owner of this place. Introduce my name is Ars. Really, I'm very happy that on the first day it opened, I was visited by two legends"

"I guess you know about our identities, don't you?" Rayleigh narrowed his eyes with a serious look.

Rayleigh would not be surprised if his identity was discovered by the other party. Even though he's been retired for a long time. There is still a lot of news about it in the newspapers and young people can still access it. However, it is different with Shakky. Shakky has long retired from the world of pirates. Even today's Navy Veterans know very little about Shakky's true identity.

"Let's just say I know the identities of you two well" Ars nodded and replied, "You two don't need to worry. I myself am not someone from the World Government or the Navy. I'm just an owner of this place" Ars paused and continued, "Ok. Forget about it. I'm sure you're both quite curious about the business that goes on in this place, aren't you?"

Rayleigh and Shakky lowered their guard a little after learning that this man in front of them was not a threat. Even though Rayleigh and Shakky had confidence in their power. The two of them themselves still sensed the dangerous threat from Ars directly even though they didn't feel it using their Observation Haki.

"I'm quite interested in the business in this place especially after you said that this place itself can be said to be a bar or restaurant. Besides, the Adventurer's Guild. This is the first time I hear these words apart from the word "adventurer" which can refer to people who are on an adventure in search of something. Is it possible that this place is a special gathering place for those adventurers?" Shakky slightly analyzed the words said by Ars earlier and gave a bit of her analysis.

"Wow, as expected of someone who manages the intelligence network. You have excellent analytical skills." Ars paused for a moment then continued, "What you said earlier wasn't wrong. This place itself is called the Adventurer's Guild. The Adventurer's Guild itself is a place for everyone who wants to become an adventurer or who has become an adventurer to gather. This place has facilities for someone who wants to register as an adventurer, exchange items using crystals they get from the dungeon and can also be used as a place to gather and talk together with their friends."

"Anyone who has successfully registered as an adventurer in this place will later be given an adventurer card" Ars took out a card from under the table then showed it to Rayleigh and Shakky who were now getting interested in his explanation, "This is the form of the adventurer card."

Adventurer Identity Card

Name  :

Group  :

Floor  :

Permissions  :

Crystals  : 0 large crystals 0 medium crystals 0 small crystals.

"At a time when one wants to register to become an adventurer. One only needed to drip one drop of their blood onto this card. The droplet of blood will then verify your identity on this adventurer card. In the group column, it will be arranged by me later. You want to form your own group or want to join the group. However, if you want to join the group, you have to get permission from the group leader before I can manage the group section. Then on the floor column it will record how far or to which floor you have reached in your adventure in the dungeon. Next in the permission column, the column will record how many you can enter the dungeon. If your permission has reached 0. You will not be able to enter the dungeon for adventure. While the last column is the crystal column. The column will record how many crystals you have stored in this card which you can exchange for various items prepared by the Guild."

"Ars-kun, what is a dungeon?" Rayleigh suddenly asked after the explanation of the adventurer card finished with interest.

"A dungeon itself is a place inhabited by monsters. The dungeon consists of seven floors. The first floor to the fifth floor has a size of 1000 square kilometers while the sixth floor has a size of 10,000 square kilometers. The environment within the dungeon itself is almost like the environment from this world or one could say the dungeon is almost like another world."

"Another World?" Rayleigh narrowed his eyes seriously.

"As what I said before. Dungeons are places inhabited by monsters and the strength of these monsters is very strong. The first floor is inhabited by a monster named Titan. Titan is a monster that has the smallest height of 30 meters while the largest is 60 meters high. Despite having a very large size. Titan's speed got in the way. In addition, Titan can also use the abilities of Armament Haki and Observation Haki very well. It could be said that the weakest Titan had a level of strength equivalent to an Elite Officer from the Marine Headquarters. Adventurers who can kill one Titan will get 1 small crystal which can be exchanged for items in the Guild later.

The second floor is inhabited by a monster called the Devil. The devil is a monster that has a height of about 5 to 10 meters. The devil himself is a monster that has a unique ability to fly and also has an ability called mana energy which they can use to release their abilities, increase body speed and so on. Demons also have excellent abilities in terms of Armament Haki and Observation Haki. Their abilities are even better than Titan's. The weakest Demonic Power was at the level of Rear Admiral Elie from Marine Headquarters. Adventurers who can kill one Devil will get 10 small crystals.

The third floor is inhabited by a monster named Ex-Machina. Ex-Maxhina is a monster that has a normal body size like a human. Ex-Machina has a unique ability like a Devil that is flying. They also have the ability to attack targets using a kind of energy similar to mana energy where they can unleash their abilities and also increase their speed and power. Ex-Machina is very good at Armament Haki and Observation Haki. Even their Armament Haki had already reached the advanced level. Ex-Machina's weakest strength lies with Vice Admiral Elie of Naval Headquarters. Adventurers who can kill an Ex-Machina will get 1 medium crystal.

On the fourth floor is inhabited by a monster named Shinigami. Shinigami are monsters that have a human-like appearance. They are a very skilled swordsman and also have a special power called Reiatsu. With a special power called Reaitsu, Shinigami can fly, increase speed, increase defense, and also increase attack power. They even have their own unit technique for each of them. Unlike the monsters that live on the 1st floor to the 3rd floor. Starting from this 4th floor. The monsters that live here have the abilities of Conqueror Haki, Armament Haki and Observation Haki. They are even proficient in using these three types of Haki and the exception is Conqueror's Haki. The other two Haki are already at the advanced stage. The weakest strength of the Shinigami is Admiral Elie from the Marine Headquarters. Adventurers who manage to kill a Shinigami will get 10 medium crystals.

The fifth floor is inhabited by a monster named Dragon. Dragons are monsters that only exist in legends but in dungeons these monsters live there and become one of the rulers of the floor. Dragon's abilities are the same as Devil's. They have an energy called mana. However, the mana they had was thousands of times more than that of the Devil on the second floor. In addition, Dragons have abilities with enormous destructive effects and skins that serve as their strongest source of defense. Dragon has mastery over all three types of Haki and has reached the advanced stages of all of them. The weakest Dragon's strength is at the level of the Elie Sea Emperor or it can be said that the weakest has a strength equivalent to Whitebeard when he was young. For adventurers who can kill a Dragon will get a prize of 1 large crystal.

The sixth floor is inhabited by a monster named Ranker. Rankers are monsters like Shinigami. They have an appearance similar to that of a human. Rankers have the ability to control an energy called Shinshuu. Rankers could be said to be the King of all the monsters in the dungeon. Because for a ranker with the weakest strength can kill a Dragon very easily. Even if the weakest Ranker faced 3 Dragons, they would still win even if they were injured. Rankers have excellent abilities in all three types of Haki even their Haki abilities have reached the highest level of Haki mastery. For adventurers who can kill one of them will get a reward of 10 large crystals.

While for the seventh floor. This floor is quite different from the other floors. Because here is not a place for monsters to live but a battle area. The size of this floor is only about 3 square kilometers. Usually this floor will be used for adventurers who want to fight or there is a cold tournament opened by the Guild. The battle will take place here