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

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

The next moment, the empty wall parted to the sides, revealing a cubicle of about twenty square meters.

Captain Thorfinn nodded to the chef in thanks.

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

The cubicle trembled slightly, and there was a slight sense of weightlessness under his feet, as if it was moving rapidly downward, and Genyuan guessed that the operation might be similar to that of the elevator in his previous life.

On the wall, a jumping number emerges.

Now, Xuanyuan has reacted.

Whether you order pork chop noodles or a small cake given by the other party, there is a vague code behind it.

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

The dish was ordered, but the gesture was wrong.

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

It's no wonder that after the other party saw his gesture, he suddenly smiled.

Looking back now, it's a little embarrassing.

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

The door slowly opened to the sides.

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

Captain Thorfinn strode out of the cubicle.

Turning his head, he opened his arms to Xuanyuan and smiled:

"Xuanyuan, congratulations on passing the screening."

"Welcome to the true Adventurers' Guild!"

Xuanyuan was confused and slowly walked out of the compartment.

The next moment, he was shocked.

What catches your eye is an open square with a length and width of several kilometers.

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

On the different circular corridors, houses of different sizes are attached to them, and they are rotating with the circular corridors.

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

Beyond the corridors, there is darkness that swallows up all light.

There are more than twenty white columns in the square, which stretch upwards beyond the endless darkness.

It 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.

When he turned around, he realized that Xuan Yuan himself had just walked out of the bottom of a white cylinder that connected to the sky.

A suspended fountain is flipping over the square, and a few gorgeous small fish jump on the water surface from time to time, leaving a rainbow-like trajectory before slowly dissipating after dozens of seconds.

Spherical 'light sources' float all over the air, each emitting a soft glow that is refreshing.

On the stone square, there are a variety of beautiful giant landscape trees.

There are also a few single-family shops scattered irregularly, and many adventurers come and go in these shops.

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

You can even see a number of formal scholars sitting sideways with brooms or various levitation tools, as well as some spell professions with staff in hand and robes.

Sit or lie down in the air and chat with fellow adventurers on the ground.

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

From time to time, adventurers walk up to the altar and disappear into the apertures, and new adventurers keep coming out of these apertures.

Scenes of fantasy and magic.

made Xuanyuan in a trance, as if he had stepped into an unreal magical realm.

Although Xuan Yuan knew that this world had the existence of occultism and magic, this was the first time he had really come into contact with a fantasy style that was completely different from technological concrete.

Soon, Xuan Yuan settled down and said curiously:

"Why is this the real Adventurer's Guild?"

Captain Thorfinn pointed to the high-level adventurers in the square, who were well-equipped, and the spellcaster classes that could be seen everywhere.

"The Adventurer's Guild you see outside is just a front, mainly responsible for handling all kinds of miscellaneous matters related to the life of adventurers 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 the training of new instructors and successfully surviving is the first test for trainee adventurers."

"The second test is more subtle, depending on whether you can find the true Adventurer's Guild."

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

"For example, [Old Rice Head's Adventurer's House], [Little Rice Head's Adventurer's House], [Female Rice Head's Adventurer's House] and so on."

"The incongruity can be detected in a variety of ways."

"For example, some restaurants have almost no diners but people always come in and out, and some restaurants often have people who go in and then don't show up, and if you ask the other person, the other party will insist that you are wrong."

"For example, although the names of these restaurants are the same, the names of each dish on the menu are completely different, except for the dish [Pork Steak Noodles], each one uses the exact same name, and if you order any of them, you can get almost the same response 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 right way to enter on your own."

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

"The last way is to be recognized by the new examiner of the guild through personal performance and be introduced by the examiner."

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan smiled:

"I'm in the third category, right?"

"So, what got me from you, Examiner?"

Thorfinn was stunned for a moment, then laughed:

"Yes, he deserves to be a newcomer who can be recognized by me."

"You're quick and receptive, and that's a good thing."

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

"First of all, you can survive the desperate situation where even the iron-level adventurers have not been able to escape, and report to the guild a mysterious monster that has existed in the dungeon for a long time, proving your powerful escape ability."

"Secondly, it was able to stun me, an iron-level two-star adventurer, and I was very calm in my subsequent sword-swinging temptation. Not only does it prove your strength, but it also shows that you are not the kind of person who panics when encountering a battle, or just knows how to escape. ”

"In the end, in the face of my invitation to duel, you had the courage to admit it, chose to apologize in public, and showed me your character without fighting bravely and not caring about face."

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

Xuanyuan nodded:

"Do I want a treat now?"

"After all, I'm having a treat now, is it considered a bribe to the examiner?"

Captain Thorfinn pointed to his face, where he had been stepped on by Xuanyuan yesterday:

"Please! You have to please! ”

"This is not a bribe to the examiner, it is to compensate me for mental damages!"

"Don't think about paying the bill!"

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

Such a fork.

The atmosphere that had become a little serious and depressing was relaxed and happy again.

Next, Captain Thorfinn took Xuanyuan and found a random restaurant in the square.

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

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

Xuanyuan didn't drink, and Captain Thorfinn didn't care.

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

Because you drink by yourself, you have to drag others to drink with you, which will be considered an extremely serious provocation and insult in the other world, and it is easy to cause a death match.

While the two were eating, Xuan Yuan asked:

"If you can't find the real Adventurer's Guild, what will happen to you?"

Captain Thorfinn shook his head:

"It shows that they can't walk on the road of the strong for the rest of their lives, so they can live their lives with ordinary efforts."

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

"Even if you spend your whole life working hard, at most you will become a [Pseudo-Iron Adventurer], and you will stop here for the rest of your life."

Xuan Yuan said curiously:

"What is a [Pseudo-Iron 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?"

Xuanyuan shook his head.

Captain Thorfinn swallowed the beef and explained:

"First the apprentice adventurer, then the iron, bronze, silver, gold adventurer, and so on."

"Iron-level adventurers, as people often call them—formal adventurers."

After that, Captain Thorfinn glanced at Xuanyuan:

"If you come to be an adventurer at your age, you usually want to become an iron-level adventurer before the age of 22 and then go to adventurer university, right?"

Seeing Xuanyuan nodded.

Captain Thorfinn continued:

"When you can successfully defeat the monsters on the third floor of [Sktos Dungeon], either alone or with your teammates."

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

"Iron-level adventurers are classified as one to five stars according to their strength."

"For example, I am an iron-level two-star adventurer, and my corresponding strength is a monster that can attack the fifth layer of [Sktos Dungeon] with the team."

"Pseudo-iron-level adventurers - refers to those adventurers whose strength cannot reach the iron level, and purely relies on doing tasks, accumulating points, and piling up qualifications."

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

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

"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 adventurer before the age of 22 because of talent advantage or some other reason."

"If you go to Adventurer's University to take the entrance test, you will also be brushed down by Adventurer's University in some clever way."

"He'll never understand, why?"

"It's just a mistake to think that the adventurer's university is too difficult to get into, that he doesn't work hard enough, that he's hardworking, or that he's just unlucky."

"In fact, from the moment when he didn't find the real adventurer's guild and went with the flow to become a pseudo-iron-level adventurer."

"His life is already doomed."

When Xuan Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"Why do you say that if you can't find the real Adventurer's Guild, your life is already doomed?"

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

"In the dungeon, stronger equipment can only be exploded by more powerful monsters."

"For example, you can't be lucky enough to get a piece of equipment that can easily kill slimes in the slime area."

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

"At the same time, the strength of the monsters on each floor of the dungeon has increased by leaps and bounds."

"The dungeon will not give you room to gradually become stronger, but deliberately creates a huge gap in strength between each floor, just to catch you off guard."

"In the face of these monsters in the dungeon, it is far from enough to have equipment of the same level and strong personal talent."

"I'll give you an example."

"Like our [Skketos Dungeon]."

"An ordinary adult male, no matter how much sophisticated equipment you wear and how well equipped you are, if you don't have pervert-level talent, you don't have the sky-high equipment that bursts out of higher-level dungeons."

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

"There is no way to beat the gatekeeper at the end of the third underground floor, and he will not be able to enter the fourth underground floor."

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

Speaking of which.

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

"See that altar, and the adventurers who are going in and out of the aperture?"

Xuanyuan nodded.

Captain Thorfinn smiled:

"These apertures are the foundation for the adventurer's guild to survive, and it is also the core of the guild's ability to continuously cultivate powerful adventurers."

"Each aperture represents a teleportation array leading to the professional guild."

"There's the Warrior Guild, the Mage Guild, the Scholar Guild, and the Thieves Guild I mentioned to you earlier, and so on."

Speaking of this, Captain Thorfinn glanced meaningfully at the bow on Xuanyuan's back:

"Of course, there are also archers' guilds."

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

"I'm sure you also know that if you hadn't practiced archery since childhood, in the fierce battles in the dungeon, the hit rate of the bow and arrow was very touching."

"In addition, the monsters in the dungeon are very powerful, and no matter how hard you practice archery, it won't be particularly helpful in battle, except for making your aim better."

"Because, you're just an ordinary human."

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

"So, you're now nothing more than a warrior using a bow as a weapon, not a real archer."

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

"The Archer Guild teaches you a variety of powerful skills related to bows and arrows."

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

"It's not the same as talent and equipment."

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

Hearing this, Xuan Yuan sighed with emotion.

The adventurer's guild in this world, the various tests and routines invisibly, are really one after another, and it is really difficult to guard against.

Xuan Yuan opened his mouth and asked:

"The reason why the guild doesn't share these professional guilds with all adventurers, and sets up various tests, is because the guild has limited resources to invest in training, right?"

Captain Thorfinn nodded:

"You're only partially 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, in high-level dungeon battles, they are cannon fodder who can't decide the outcome of the battle."

"What the Adventurer's Guild really needs is those strong people who still have a firm will and consciousness in the face of invincible strong enemies, and dare to constantly challenge and surpass."

"Talent is only one dimension."

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

"It's just a weak person who is limited by their own talent, once they leave their talent, or their talent is restrained by the other party, they are nothing."

Speaking of which, Captain Thorfinn had finished eating.

He pulled out a tissue and wiped his mouth.

Reach out and pat Xuanyuan on the shoulder.

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

"None of these are the decisive factors in determining whether you will be a strong person or a weak person in the future."

"Over the years, the guild has fought countless terrifying and desperate battles with the dungeon, and after countless sacrifices, it has finally been exchanged for a painful lesson soaked in countless blood:"

"Strength comes from the heart, not the outside."

"Xuanyuan, keep going! Try to get stronger! ”

"Okay, live!"

With that, Instructor Thorfinn turned to leave.

Leaving Xuanyuan to sit in place, thoughtful.