Chapter 9 Explorer Association#1

16th, Ashadha, 1965

Today is Sunday, Ortson is in front of the Explorer Association,

Unlike other governmental bodies, Explorer Association is open 7 days a week, Their main employees are mainly warriors and mages whose main focus is on exploration and accumulating resources from the tower.

Explorer's working days are mainly irregular, they may work 2 days and take one day off, or many times due to injury they are unable to explore the tower, and need to take long breaks.

The architectural style of the Explorer Association is also similar to Victorian architecture.

Ortson enters the building and beelined toward the wide counter where many beautiful receptionists were accepting requests, answering inquiries, and giving quests to explorers.

Ortson stands behind a line and waits for his turn.

Little by little the number of explorers in front of Ortson began to dwindle.

And at last Ortson's turn came, before he could say anything he was asked.

"Put your hand on the crystal board."

Ortson puts his hand on the board.

Name Ortson Soy

Age 19

Constitution 30/100

Wisdom 30/100

Agility 20

Strength 25

Stamina 20

Endurance 19

Mana 35

Skills Proficiency

Slight of Hands Intermediate

Covert Intermediate

Mathematics Advanced

Engineering Intermediate

Chemist Advanced

Reading Advanced

Listening Advanced

Cooking Intermediate

Singing Intermediate

Linguist Basic

Atomic Mana circulation(new) Novice (1st circle)

Pranayama(new) Novice

Tower Points-0

The receptionist has blond hair in a ponytail, turquoise eyes, and a big chest. She has a name tag on her uniform, her name is Chelsea.

Chelsea makes a perfect service smile on her face.

"Mr. Ortson please wait for a while."

Chelsea takes out a metal card from inside the table drawer and puts it inside a metal box attached to the crystal board.

As the lid closed one can see green light coming out of the seam of the box, after a few minutes the green light stopped glowing.

Chelsea takes out a metal plate from inside the box and presents it to Ortson.

"Mr. Ortson here is your Explorer card, it can also be used as an identification card, it records information about the floors explored and dungeons raided by you."

Ortson takes the card in his hand, in front of the card his name is inscribed in bold letters with the logo of the explorer association, but on the back of the card, there is a magic inscription that records information about Ortson.

'It's like a barcode, and they need the crystal board to read that information.'

"Thank you, Miss Chelsea."

"It's my job. Now, Mr. Ortson are you hear for the challenging dungeon on the first floor."

"Yes, Miss. Chelsea."

"Then, you are in luck Mr. Ortson, there is a group about to depart toward the dungeon you can join them."

"Where I can find them."

"You can find them sitting in the waiting area, there will be a man with a huge broad sword and scar over one eye, he is the instructor of newbie explorers. His name is Adrian."

"Thank you, Miss. Chelsea."

As Ortson tries to leave the counter, Chelsea asks him to wait a little and hands him a package.

"Mr. Ortson, take these Explorer's starter packs."

Chelsea hands his leather armor, a knife with a 15-inch blade, and a small wand.

'This wand looks similar to my Harry Porter prop in my previous world.'

"Good luck Mr. Ortson. Happy Exploring."

Ortson is sitting inside a bus with the group of explorers he will be raiding the dungeon with.

The bus is one of the modes of transportation powered by natural gas.

The city of the first floor occupied the whole island.

Ortson was dumbfounded when he heard that 1st floor is the island, which is surrounded by seawater, if one wants to leave the island it is not possible because there is a barrier surrounding the island at the 10 km mark.

In the past 70 years people have developed the island into a huge city, to travel all around the city transportation was created by the dwarf diaspora. They invented the gasoline engine.

Outside the tower, there is a steam engine, but Dwarf found black oil on one of the upper floors.

Seeing its flammable property and explosive power it contained. They decided to use it as fuel.

Due to burning black oil, it emits black smoke which is very harmful.

The Elven diaspora protested the use of black oil.

Then the Alchemy Association had to step in to find a solution, and the solution they found was CNG(compress natural gas), due to it being a cleaner form of energy the Elven community stopped their protest.

While Ortson was musing on his thoughts, Adrian claps his hand to attract the attention of the explorers.

"Attention everyone, it may be the first raid of many of you here. This dungeon has the capacity of 10 people at a time. We will be raiding a goblin cave, the monster boss is a goblin general. He will be alone that's why he will not be able to showcase his full power. I will help you up to the boss's room. You guys have to defeat the boss monster yourself, there are 9 of you it will not be a problem."

As Adrian finish speaking the bus stopped with a screeching halt.

"We have reached the stop, everyone will be disembarking in a line."

As Ortson disembarks from the bus, a glowing swirling blue gate is in front of him.

Ortson started to give himself a pep talk.

'This will be my first raid, where I will be fighting for the first time no need to nervous it will be just like FPS, and I am an immortal level player, I can do it.'

Many vendors are present in front of the gate, advertising and selling potions and weapons which will be needed by explores. Many are buying goods from the vendors, some people notice a group of 10 people going toward the gate to raid the dungeon.

Nobody says anything or tries to stop them from entering the dungeon because it is a normal sight inside the tower, and that group will not be the last to do so.