BXBX NOVEL Chapter 51 Clearing A Dungeon
Chapter 51: Clearing a Dungeon
Two days passed, and it is finally the day that Kayn would meet with Rys and the team from the latter's father's guild to enter a dungeon.
But before he can meet the team, he has to meet with Rys at the Moon Core first because the latter had informed him beforehand that the location of the dungeon is being strictly kept confidential by his father's guild so for him to get there he has to meet with one of the team members, which in his case is Rys, and it would be him who will take him to the location of the dungeon.
Honestly, every single time a dungeon raid is being conducted, all teams or guilds that won the right to do a dungeon raid on the said dungeon would actually operate in a very strict and secretive manner. This is done so that other guilds, especially Villains, can't pull any tricks and schemes to the former.
Moreover, because this is a private dungeon, only the teams and the certain guild that they are a part of have the right to know the location, and any other third parties that are hired would have to go through a lot of trouble and processing in order to get to the location.
Only public dungeons won't operate in such a manner since it is accessible by the masses, albeit limited in numbers and the benefit that one could get is barely worth the effort and time they have invested. In addition to that, there's also a huge risk of meeting a Villain.
After he finished all of his morning routines, Kayn left his home with Natas. Not long later, they arrived at the Moon Core where they immediately spotted Rys who was waiting for Kayn.
"Sorry for arriving just now,"
"No worries, no worries. I also just arrived. Anyways, are you ready for the job?"
"Yes,"
"Then let's make our way there," Rys said as he started walking.
"Are we just going to walk to get there?" Kayn wonders while following Rys.
"The reason why I ask you to meet me here is that the dungeon is actually very close to the Moon Core," Rys explained.
Hearing that, Kayn felt a bit surprised. Although this wasn't his first time encountering a dungeon that opened right in the middle of a city. But whenever something like that happens, it's usually the big guilds that would take care of them. After all, the management of a city naturally can't just let any weak guilds take care of a dungeon that has the potential to bring a lot of harm to their city.
Based on the standard of the Dragon Beast Republic, Rys' father's guild, 'Ying Yang Dynasty', is not considered a small guild, but it is also not considered big as well. So, he is very surprised to find out that they actually got a dungeon that normally a big guild would contest. Not to mention, the environment of this dungeon is special, which means that it should have attracted even more attention from the big guilds.
The reason for that is that for a dungeon's environment to be considered special, it first must be a level higher than its counterparts.
All dungeons are ranked differently, respectively SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G rank. SSS rank is the highest-ranking dungeon, while G rank is the lowest-ranking dungeon. But each rank is further classified into three different levels; for example, A-, A, and A+. Each level implies that although the ranking of the dungeon is A rank, its difficulty is considered high-tier or low-tier from the rest of the dungeon with a similar rank, but still, it isn't yet in the same level of the rank after or below it.
Most of the time, in the case of dungeons with a special environment inside of them, they are labeled with the character '+' in their rank.
And all dungeons like that give better loot and inhabit stronger monsters. Simply put, more risk and more reward.
"If it is okay to ask, what is the rank of the dungeon your father's guild has bought?"
"Hmmm… If I heard it correctly, they said that it was an E+ rank dungeon under the 100th floor," Rys replied after thinking for a bit.
'E+ rank dungeon under the 100th floor' implies that the dungeon is located on the 21st floor to the 30th floor of the 'Tower.
Kayn breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it wasn't a dungeon C- rank dungeon or above. Otherwise, with his current capability, it would be very difficult for him to survive even as a mere Porter.
The reason for why he thought of that is because only Heroes could actually clear dungeons from C- rank and above as this declares that the dungeon is located on the 41st floor until the 100th floor of the 'Tower'.
If a group of superhumans tries fighting against the monsters from the 41st floor to the 100th floor onward, then it would be no different from committing suicide or just giving their own lives away.
A good example of that is when he fought against the Flame Gorilla. If it wasn't because of his fighting experience and battle sense, then he would have long died in that battle. However, that Flame Gorilla is nothing compared to the monsters that will appear on the 41st floor to the 100th floor onward.
Although this kind of rule only applies to the floors under the 100th floor. The floors from the 101st and onward can only be cleared by Heroes and any Superhumans that dare to enter will have their lives taken away the moment they stepped foot on their soil due to how strong the mana density is.
"If it's okay to ask, where is the dungeon located?" No matter how much he thought about it, he can't think of any possible location where a dungeon could be secretly hidden from the eyes of the masses, especially considering that it is located somewhere nearby the center of the Moon Dragon City.
"It's alright, we'd get there soon anyways," Rys trust that Kayn isn't a person that works for another Guild that opposes his father's guild. Well, if he was, then he wouldn't be living in such a poor condition.
"Do you remember the café we used to hang out at before we got fed up with the taste of their coffee?"
"Yeah. What about it?" In the past, they used to hang out in a coffee shop called Sunny's Coffee Shop. At first, the taste of the coffee the owner personally brewed was good, but with the new change in management, their coffee started to slowly get worst. Eventually, the sales dropped, and the manager who changed everything was fired. But despite that, the customers who already left never returned anymore.
"Just a few weeks ago, their coffee shop was closed for renovation. You have probably noticed their signs outside their doors,"
"Yeah…" Although Kayn has already forgotten about this, he still decided to nod his head and go with the flow.
"Well, the truth is, they didn't actually close for renovation. In reality, a dungeon gate actually opened in their basement storage. The store owner reported it immediately, and after a few days, the men that the Dragon Beast Republic had sent finally finished gathering information about the dungeon and started the bidding war amongst all the guilds that are interested,"
"Since the report says that the dungeon is E+ rank, how did you win the bidding?" Although an E+ rank dungeon isn't much or a huge deal for big guilds, it's actually a good opportunity for them to train their backup and reserve teams to adapt to the next dungeon rank. Moreover, it can also provide them the opportunity to equip themselves without affecting their budget that much since the loots inside dungeons with the character '+' are guaranteed to be good and no small or medium-sized guild would dare to compete with them in fear that they would experience a hard time afterward in the future bidding wars.
"Fortunately for us, at that time, the 200th floor of the 'Tower' was coincidentally about to open. So, all big guilds in the Moon Dragon City focus their attention over there, hence leaving us medium-sized guild to compete with good dungeon gates," Rys explains.
To put it simply, when the lion is away, the hyenas would come to play.
Since no big guilds were present during that time, the power naturally temporarily shifted to the medium-sized guilds. And because the bidding war was already over, even if the big guilds come to know of this information, they are already too late to change anything. Albeit underhanded and under-the-table methods still exist to get a guild to transfer their right to clear a dungeon to another guild, but they can't force that to happen or else they would make an enemy out of the Dragon Beast Republic itself.
"How lucky for the Ying Yang Dynasty,"
"Yeah," Rys agreed. It's indeed very rare for his father's guild to receive such a huge piece of a pie. And whenever they do, they won't let go of it no matter what.
"We are here," Rys announced. But instead of getting inside through the front door, they instead made their way to the back door located at the side alley. In that way, they won't attract any unwanted attention. After all, this place is supposedly under renovation.
As soon as Kayn walked inside the store, a bunch of men wearing different armor and pieces of cloth greeted him.
Tens of weapon racks could be seen neatly arranged on the side on a horizontal line.
High-performing computers with dozens of cables connected to the dungeon gate were currently analyzing the performance of the dungeon gate so as to get as much information about the dungeon before the team of Heroes would get inside.
In the center, a piece of huge map was lying on top with multiple flags with different symbols drawn on them spread all across some crucial points.
"How nostalgic," Kayn muttered under his breath. In the past, he used to always experience scenes like this, especially when his guild was still in its start-up phase. But as he gets stronger and stronger, over time his guild shifted all of their focus from clearing dungeons to helping clear the floors inside the 'Tower'.
All guilds would eventually come to that certain point in time in the future as long as they continue to develop. As a matter of fact, that's currently the case of the Ying Yang Dynasty right now. After all, this team in front of him is made up of a bunch of newbie Heroes, which means to say that the main team is currently doing something else that an E+ rank gate can't compare. And where else could one get that other than the floors inside the 'Tower', right?