Chapter 22

*Drink*

The guild entrance opened and showed Shanks and his crew plus Mihawk walking into the guild with a look full of interest and curiosity.

"Ah! Finally you arrived too" Rayleigh smiled upon seeing Shanks' arrival until his eyes suddenly turned to Mihawk with quite a surprised face, "Has Eagle Eyes also joined your crew, Shanks?"

"Ahaha… It's not like that" Shanks immediately laughed sheepishly at the question, "When you called earlier, Eagle Eyes was with us. So, he also listened to our whole conversation regarding the guild and other things. This is also what made him come with us because he was interested in the swordsmen in the dungeon."

"I see." Rayleigh nodded.

"Hey, Rayleigh-san. What drink are you drinking? Why did I smell it for the first time?" Shanks asked with interest as his eyes fell on the bottle of drink Rayleigh was currently holding.

It wasn't just Shanks who was interested in this. The entire cadre of Akagami and Mihawk pirates were also interested in the drink. They are all great drinkers and they have tried almost every drink in the world. It was the first time they had smelled such a fragrant drink.

"This drink? I got it from the guild. If you want, you can collect a large number of crystals and get this drink for the price of 2 small crystals for each bottle of drink" Rayleigh's face suddenly sneered, "What do you think about this drink?"

"What a wonderful scent. It's the first time I kissed him."

"Hehehe…" Rayleigh smiled then said, "This drink I drink is a low-grade drink from the guild. There are three more grades that are better than this drink."

"Really?" Shanks' eyes filled with joy hearing this.

"He was telling the truth. The Guild still has 3 tiers of drinks that are better than those drinks."

The voice immediately got the attention of Shanks and the others.

"Welcome to the adventurer's guild. I am the owner of this place, Ars. I didn't expect to be visited by one of the pirate groups that holds the status of the Emperor of the Sea and also…" Ars' gaze fell on Mihawk, "A Shichibukai who holds the title of the World's Strongest Swordsman"

Shanks and everyone who came to the guild for the first time were immediately attracted by Ars' appearance.

"I didn't expect to be known by someone like you" Shanks smiled and walked towards Ars.

"Your popularity is quite large. It's a bit strange for adults not to know you" Ars shrugged his shoulders and continued again, "I'm sure, you guys must already know about the information as well as various things about this guild, right? However, I better explain it again to you. Because there might be some additions that you need to know or maybe the explanation given from Rayleigh is lacking"

"Hey, even though I'm an old man. My ability to explain is still pretty good." Rayleigh said in a dissatisfied tone.

Ars didn't reply to Rayleigh's words and began to explain the guild to the Akagami pirate group as well as Mihawk.

"Hey, boss. I think you have very good luck this time. You only need to find 1 medium crystal and then exchange it for 5 elite grade healing pills in order to restore your left hand" Hongo said while speaking in a teasing tone.

"Hahaha… I guess so" Shanks laughed excitedly because he had the chance to regain his lost left arm.

"Eagle Eyes, you came here because you wanted to fight with swordsmen, didn't you?" Ars looked at Mihawk calmly.

Mihawk nodded.

"If that's the case, within the dungeon itself there are two places that have swordsmen. Fourth floor and sixth floor. However, your current strength is unable to fight the monsters that inhabit the sixth floor. Even I'm not sure if you have the qualifications to be able to rise to the fifth floor with your current strength. Practice first on the fourth floor. There all the monsters that inhabit the floor are swordsmen who have the weakest strength on par with Admiral Akainu while the strongest person there is on par with Whitebeard when he was at his peak strength."

"Hahahaha… This is the first time I've heard that you don't have the qualifications to go where you want to be, Eagle Eyes." Shanks immediately laughed at this.

"I see" Mihawk didn't listen to Shanks' taunts and just nodded. Even though he wanted to try fighting the best swordsman in the dungeon. Mihawk also certainly knew that his current strength wasn't enough especially when listening to the power distribution of each floor-dwelling monster from Ars clearly.

"By the way, Ares. Can a group control more than one territory?" Ben Backman had previously tried to derive some important points from the explanation Ars had given them and asked the question he had always wanted to ask.

"Each group will be able to make what is called a group card. And to use the group card only six people consisting of the leader of the group along with five officers who will later be appointed by the group leader. Each group will only be able to control a maximum of six regions. Each of these areas will be represented by one of the six people who have influence in the group."

"I see." Ben Backman who had received an immediate answer set up a plan in his mind for the move that would be made later.

"Hey, Ares. Do our cadres of Monsters also need an adventurer card to enter the dungeon?" Shanks asked with interest.

"Monsters? Is that a monkey?" Ars asked while pointing at the monkey currently on Bonk Punck's shoulder.

"Yes. He is one of our commanders. Does he need to also make his adventurer card?" Shanks asked again.

"Can he speak human language?" Before answering Shanks' question, Ars asked again.

"No, he can't" Shanks shook his head, "However, he has human-like intelligence and strong fighting abilities"

The monster that had received Shanks' praise instantly raised its chest with a sense of pride.

"Then he doesn't have to. Unless he can talk like a human and have wisdom like a human for example like the mink tribe. They are required to make an adventurer card in order to enter the dungeon."

"I see." Shanks nodded.

"Ok, any other questions before we get into your registration stage?" Ars asked again.

"Not. We are ready to register" Shanks replied with a smile.

Ars then took 10 new adventurer cards along with a group card and looked at Shanks, "What's the name of your group and also who do you want to be the officers of your group?"

"Our group name is the Akagami Pirates. The officers are Ben Backman, Yasoop, Lucky Roo, Limejuice, and Building Snake."

Ars nodded and immediately made their group card.

"This is your group card. Please take good care. If you lose, you have to pay 5 small crystals to get a new one."

Shanks nodded and immediately gave the group card to Ben Backman because it was safer to keep to him than Shanks himself was holding.

"Next enter your registration" Ars then looked at Mihawk, "On the individual adventurer card there will be a group column. For all members of the Akagami pirate group, I will set it to be the Akagami pirate group. How about you, Mihawk? Do I need to organize your group the same as the Akagami pirate group? Or do you want to be arranged individually?"

"Hey, Eagle Eyes, how about you come along with our group" Shanks asked with a grin, "There are many benefits you can get by using our group name one of which is that you can come directly to our base and not have to teleport to random locations. "

"No need" Mihawk said calmly while looking at Ars, "Organize my group into individuals"

"Che~ Boring"

"Hahahaha… Boss, you got rejected again" Yasoop seera laughed and started mocking Shanks.

"Not cool, Boss. You were repelled by Eagle Eyes. Hey Snake, how many times has the Boss been rejected today?" asked Bonk Punch excitedly.

"Not sure. Maybe about 5 times" Snake said with a grin.

The entire Akagami pirate crew laughed heartily while Shanks also started laughing along with them without getting angry even if he was ridiculed. Only Ben Backman was calm as he inhaled his cigarette.

Ars chuckled at the atmosphere he was seeing at the moment. Ars then started to arrange their respective group cards. After the arrangement was complete, Ars then gave 9 new adventurer cards to the Akagami pirate group while the other to Eagle Eyes. They all immediately verified the registration using their blood using the knife they had.

After the process was complete, Ben Backman immediately took out 900 thousand berries from his pants pocket then handed it to Ars, "Give each of us 10 dungeon entry permits"

Mihawk also did the same thing by taking out 500 thousand berries and handing it over to Ars, "Everything is for admission"

Mihawk himself previously had no money at all. However, on the way here. The Akagami pirate group met with a small pirate group where Mihawk immediately rushed to destroy them and robbed all the treasures belonging to the small pirate group. All the treasures obtained by him were given to the Akagami pirate group as payment while he only took what was necessary.

Ars immediately processed the entry permit. It didn't take long for the process to be completed and the adventurer cards were redistributed to their owners.

Ars then took out his information book, "You guys probably still don't know about the exchangeable items in this guild. Please use this book to see it. Also, if you need extra, you can borrow Rayleigh's information book. He has one too."

Ars gaze looked at Mihawk, "You better take a look too, Mihawk. The journey to the fourth floor itself is quite far. In addition, there are many good items that you can later get in the guild which can help you stay in the dungeon such as housing, food, drink and others. Even our guild provides weapons of higher quality than the quality of the weapons you and Shanks are currently using."

These words from Ars immediately caught everyone's attention.

"Better than my weapon? Is that true?" Shanks asked with great interest.

"Yes. There is one more level higher compared to weapons with the quality of Saijo O Wazamono. You better read it in the information book. It's long enough to explain while in that book all the information about swords of that quality is recorded." Ars said calmly.

Shanks nodded. However, before Shanks could take the book that Ars gave him, Mihawk had already picked it up and started walking towards the sofa, "Hey, you cheated, Eagle Eyes"

"I'm not cheating, Akagami" Mihawk replied without looking at Shanks, "You already have Rayleigh that you can borrow the information book from. This book will be used by me."

"I think so too" Shanks nodded and immediately turned towards Rayleigh who was currently sitting leisurely on the sofa followed by the commanders of the Akagami pirate group.