The second floor of the Adventurer Association in Tanzania City seems to be a place with the same generous and simple decoration, but it is much less popular than the first floor. The NPCs and players walking on this floor seem to be the same as those downstairs. There are some differences between the players. Both in terms of clothing and temperament, they are better than those downstairs: "...you two."
Reaching out to block the steps of a certain gray-robed magician who had just climbed up the stairs, the two swordsman guards guarding here looked at the faces of a man and a woman with condescending eyes: "What are you doing up here?"
"Well……"
Blinking his eyes inexplicably, the gray-robed magician, who was protecting Xue Ling Huan Bing behind him, asked in confusion: "Isn't this the place where commissions are issued, guilds are established, and large transactions are made?"
"This is the VIP area."
Sharp eyes scanned Duan Qing's face. The swordsman who asked the question pointed behind him with his armor-covered finger: "What you just said is correct, but that is an adventure that only those with permission can take." It’s something only a person can do.”
"Do you have permission?"
The clear voice, like the clear decorations around it, swayed back and forth around the stairs. The plain and unshakable doubts later attracted the attention of the other players passing by the stairway below, who looked at them with ridicule and excitement. Projected from the hall near the stairs. Scratching his head in embarrassment, Duan Qing secretly glanced at each other with Xue Ling Huan Bing behind him. He still did not retreat, but followed the movement of the two men pressing their hands on the hilts of their swords, moving closer. The direction of the door opened slightly: "Well... although I don't know what the permissions you are talking about are, but if it is something like a membership card, then we really don't have it."
"Do you know it by looking at you like this?" The swordsman let out a heavy cold snort: "There is no adventurer badge, and there is no adventure group logo... just you two idlers still want to enter this area? Let's go back."
"that--"
She quietly stretched out her finger. This time, it was Xue Ling Huan Bing who took Duan Qing's place and spoke longer: "But it was the lady who greeted us who asked us to come up? She just said that if we wanted to set up If it’s an adventure group, just let us come up or something like that…”
"..."
Following the direction pointed by Xueling Huanbing, the two swordsmen guarding the stairs focused their attention on the etiquette lady NPC standing at the door indicated by the cloaked woman. Face then returned to Duan Qing and Duan Qing after a period of silence: "You just said... that you want to form an adventure group?"
"Isn't setting up an adventure group one of the businesses of this place?" Duan Qing shrugged helplessly: "It seems that we just confirmed it with you..."
"go in."
Interrupting Duan Qing's words, the swordsman with a high level who raised one arm then took a step back, and then in the unexpected eyes of the two people, together with another guard beside him, he took a step back. The path was cleared: "The application for the adventure group is in the second room, which is the door on your left, but I want to remind you..."
"Don't try to cause trouble." He retracted his serious eyes into his silent expression: "Otherwise, we will throw you out from here with your own hands."
Carefully passing through the gap between the two swordsmen, the figures of a man and a woman entered the stairway of the second floor despite the surprised gazes of countless players around them. They looked no different from novice players. The image then disappeared like two pebbles in the ocean, sinking behind the wooden railing composed of pillars and carvings on the second floor. The players on the second floor who were walking among the wooden fence carvings also gradually slowed down their steps. The eyes that glanced at them with the same sense of surprise also began to make the two people feel uncomfortable. They stood there and hesitated. After a while, he wanted to head towards the depths of this area but was stopped by a questioning voice that suddenly sounded in his ears: "Novice player?"
"Are you looking in the wrong place?"
With an ID named "Xingluo French Fries", a fat player covered in armor fragments took the lead in making his own inquiry: "I didn't see any guild logo or anything like that... …Which guild is it from?”
"Uh, we want to issue a commission." Duan Qing, scratching his nose, replied cautiously: "Any questions?"
"If you want to issue a commission, the left hall on the first floor can also handle plug-in tasks." The fat player's face became even weirder: "Do you have to go to the VIP area above? You two... Hey, thin wolf .”
He turned back and shouted to another player-looking person sitting in the corner of the high platform: "Can I buy tickets to enter the VIP area now? How much does one cost?"
"How do I know such a thing?" A lazy reply came back vaguely from that direction: "About five hundred gold coins each."
"Then we can make a good profit." The fat man turned around and shrugged in vain: "So... which guild brought you two here?"
"No one brought us up." Duan Qing sighed in his heart and replied expressionlessly: "Although we do intend to set up a guild adventure group or something..."
"Set up an adventure group? Just the two of you?"
After scanning the appearance and attire of the gray-robed magician in front of him, Xingluo Fries made an involuntary sneer after confirming it for a while: "Have you ever seen what the ruins around Tanzania City look like? Can you beat the leader of the Wind Demon Wolf? Even if I gather five people for you, you probably won't be able to pass the trial issued by the association, right?"
"You don't have to worry about this." Duan Qing, who put one hand on his abdomen, replied politely: "It's just shopping anyway, so there's nothing wrong with taking a look, right?"
"Ha, do you think this is a place like a vegetable market?" The fat man muttered softly and sighed with squinting eyes: "Come when you want and leave when you want? Only the most powerful guild in Tanzania City can come here. VIP area! Two guys????
"Ah, Mr. Linyuan Duanshui!"
A sudden scream interrupted the fat player's words, and at the same time, a small player suddenly walked out from the corner of the second floor with a surprised look on his face: "You...how did you get here?" coming?"
"You are the……"
The atmosphere that was about to become anxious suddenly stopped in place with this shout, and then with the appearance of the player dressed like a thief, they all gathered together, looking in that direction as well. Duan Qing tugged on his gray robe, and after a while he unexpectedly said his voice: "Um... Walnut Rakshasa, right? Why are you here?"
"I help Brother Corn guard the house, so of course I'm here." Walnut Rakshasa scratched his cheek a little embarrassed, and then looked back at Duan Qing's face with a rather strange look: "Why, what's wrong? Of?"
"I mean... uh..."
His eyes kept turning back and forth on the other high-level players who were gradually gathering around. Duan Qing's hands that had been gesticulating also stopped: "Isn't this a VIP area? You..."
"Yes, this is the VIP area." The thief nodded naturally. In this way, the thief answered Duan Qing's question. He looked around at the rest of the crowd and then withdrew from the strange silence. It fell on the fat player who looked unhappy: "We are just like their Star Griffin."
"They are all VIPs here."
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Like various neutral guilds such as the Mage Council and the Warriors' House, the Adventurers Association is also a neutral organization located in every corner of the Free Continent. The association headquartered in the capital of the empire also has branches all over the continent. The same split management model manages numerous adventurers across the continent. Due to the growing power of players, the Adventurers Association's influence on the mainland has become more and more obvious in recent times. However, the corresponding management difficulty and the difficulty of solving problems when problems arise also increase with the players. The number of adventure groups they established has increased exponentially.
In order to facilitate the handling of these player groups who like to fight all day long and whose hatred relationship is as complicated as a spider web, some simple management methods and status distinctions have also emerged as the times require. The so-called VIP area naturally solves this problem. It's just one way to solve the problem.
"Although there are not many people left, our Fool Adventure Group is still one of the best adventure groups on the mainland."
Pushing the two fragrant wooden cups in his hands onto the table, the player named Walnut Rakshasa enthusiastically invited Duan Qing and Xueling Huanbing, who had been pulled into the room, to their seats: "This adventure group is here Countless astounding feats seem to have been accomplished in various parts of the continent, so it was naturally included in the ranks of high-level adventure groups by the Adventurers Association. However, how high the reputation of the adventure group is, I only joined this adventure group later. Even people don’t know.”
"When... did you join this adventure group?"
"I joined two months ago."
Scratching his head in embarrassment, Walnut Rakshasa showed a shy smile: "Our group of people just submitted their applications with the mentality of giving it a try, but we didn't expect that it would really work out later." We joined in. I heard that the group leader needed some guys to do rough work, so he recruited us temporarily."
"...doing rough work?"
Slowly holding up the wooden cup at hand, Duan Qing's eyes became a little strange: "Are you willing to join under such conditions?"
"Of course, after all, this is the Fool's Adventure Group!"
He gestured with his open arms to both sides, and a proud smile appeared on Walnut Rakshasa's face: "No matter how many rumors are circulated, this guild is the most legendary guild in the free world, let alone the Tower. The Battle of Nia and the Battle of Morna Star, the battle of light alone is already attractive enough!"
"Sorry, I'm a new player who just joined this game."
Duan Qing calmly filtered out the smile that gradually appeared in the corner of Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes, and cleared his throat forcefully: "So I have never heard of any of the War of Light you mentioned. …”
"Ah, sorry, I was a little too arrogant."
Nodding apologetically, Walnut Rakshasa's eyes then fell on the coffee table in front of him: "But that's right, since I came to this adventure group, I have never experienced any legendary feeling..."
"……Why?"
"Because this team has undergone a major change."
Rubbing his fingers, the thief player sitting opposite Duan Qing gradually focused his attention: "The flames in the blue sky are whispering, the red lotus girl Qianzhihe, the violent swordsman Jiecheng evil boy, the righteousness of the rivers and lakes smiles in the world of mortals." …These once famous figures have retreated and retreated, and now most of them are no longer here.”
"Except for some members of the Adventure Group branch in Liberty City, only our leader is still here." His tone became much lower: "But since we joined this adventure group , we have never seen her before.”
"...Then who recruited you here?" Duan Qing, who was silent for a moment, asked in a low voice: "We can't just recruit you in without anyone passing through, right?"
"That's the current Captain Black Corn."
Pointing towards the VIP area outside the house, Walnut Rakshasa showed a friendly smile again: "After he made us a member of the Fool, we have been following Brother Corn all over the world, although we have not encountered any big battles. , but it can be regarded as a lot of tasks..."
"Are you here to do a mission?"
Seemingly showing little interest in the other party's experience during this period, Xue Ling Huan Bing on the side promptly asked her own question: "What mission are you doing now?"
"Our captain didn't explain the details of our coming here." Walnut Rakshasa, who was slightly stunned and scratched his cheek, replied with an embarrassed look on his face: "After we came here, we just followed the captain's instructions. I was running around here and there under my instructions, except for some adventure rewards used to make a living, the rest is similar to the mission that Brother Linyuan Duanshui knows about."
"Is that the wooden box mission you mentioned?" Xue Ling Huan Bing glanced at Duan Qing and then continued to ask: "What happened to that mission?"
"Of course we'll let it go." Walnut Rakshasa's expression turned into an indignant one: "How dare you deceive us, the Fool Adventure Group, and think we are really fools? If not for the alchemist master Linyuan Duanshui and his brother who discovered I learned the secret… that’s right!”
"You are so powerful, do you want to join our Fool's Adventure Group?"
As if he suddenly thought of this, the expression of the Thief player sitting across the tea table became excited, and the action of slapping his thigh turned into eyes full of expectancy, which fell eagerly on Duan Qing, who was twitching at the corner of his mouth. on the bitter face.
