In the back of the Adventurer’s Guild Hall the group had followed the guild’s Clerk till they neared a large door that had what seemed another waiting room outside it, but this time it was much smaller with only a coffee table and one chairs on each side of it. Stopping outside the door the clerk only glanced at the top paper he grabbed before leading them here saying “Okay, Satoru? You go in, the others wait out here.”
After Satoru and the clerk went through the door Blaike and Alan quietly went about their own business as they were unsure as to when Satoru may come out. Less than a minute after Satoru went in the clerk left the door leaving the waiting room and heading back towards the front. Since the wait was long Blaike felt like practicing his skills so he started with the [Upgrade] skill using woodcarving to increase his wood sword’s sharpness stat and only checking his progress in improving the sword.
Equa Sword
44/44 Durability
7 sharpness
The time it took Blaike to use the [Upgrade] skill was about half an hour and only after checking up on the progress of his Equa Sword did the door finally open again with Satoru coming out with a confused look on his face and a metal card in his hand. Looking towards Blaike Satoru gained a radiant smile only to say to Alan that it was her turn to go in. The time taken for passed easier compared to when Satoru was in the door as he was the one that could come up with ways to entertain the group with games that never involved instruments necessary to play it.
As they were finishing the second game, Alan had come out with a metal card telling Blaike to head in and that Satoru and her will be in the main lobby waiting for him. Through the door was a large yellow crystal and a woman holding the papers waiting for Blaike to appear. When the door was fully shut the crystal lit up revealing a false floor and stairs under it, behind the woman before she brought Blaike down. The Staircase was a large spiral that seemed to go for a full 20 meters down.
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At the end of the stairs there was another yellow crystal, but this time it had a metallic core. The woman approache it before Blaike putting her hand and a metal sheet on the crystal before telling Blaike to touch the sheet and hold it to the crystal. Upon Blaike’s approach the crystal grew a dim glow only to absorb most of the sheet into its core leaving a metal card with all the filled out information on it covered in a thin layer of the yellow crystal. This process took a full minute to be complete and having Blaike only look at the card forming quickly under his palm in shock.
The woman took her hand off the crystal creating a repulsive force on Blaike making him take a few steps back. The card in Blaike’s hand had the same glow that the crystal had previously letting him see all the information inscribed on it. The woman told Blaike to fully register he needed to let a drop of his blood fall on the card and he may need a thing to pierce his skin handing him a small knife.
Only at this time did Blaike realize the true reason as to why it took so long for the other two to come out, it was that they had to cause harm to themselves. The woman patiently waited for Blaike to cut himself until he finally did cut the tips of his middle three fingers of the hand that held the card. He grasped the card tightly as he felt the crystal around the card dissolving into the card giving it a slight yellow luster.
The both of them left the room heading toward the main entrance hall where Blaike joined back together with Alan, Satoru, Kat, and Jahleel. The group left the guild after making sure that they could enter the forest, unobstructed the group went into the forest only to find the reason that they were not allowed to enter the forest was because goblins and a low level dungeon inhabited the forest.
With curiosity toward what the dungeon held Blaike lead the group through the forest looking for the dungeon to find a small cabin near a pyramid that stood as tall as some redwood trees.the group went to the cabin to see who would have build one next to the dungeon and with few people coming near.
The cabin had no residents, with only a sign at the door saying “this is a house for those who want to venture into the depths of the pyramid”. Taking a brief look into the cabin the group decided not to rest there as they would venture into the pyramid instead. The pyramids had a similar design to them as those from Indonesia allowing Adventures to easily walk into the entrance of the pyramid at the peak of it.
Upon entry to the dungeon Alan and Satoru were slowed by an invisible force pushing them back towards the entrance. They only pressed on to not be left behind seeing as the force would only slow their progress and not stop them. The group went down the first layer of the pyramid as it was small and had no monsters. The second layer was larger than what they expected since from the outside it looked only slightly bigger than the peak. With the unexpected increase of since there were now corridors and creatures resting within this layer forcing the group to be slightly more on edge as they had luckily not meet a monster when traversing the forest to find this place.
The first pack of monsters that had appeared before the group was a pack of wolves being ridden by goblins wielding small pointed sticks.