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When I found out that I was eligible for the D-rank promotion exam at the General Alliance Annex, I just entered the General Alliance Headquarters and went to the Adventurer Registration Reception Desk, where Mirimaria, an elf, sat in charge when I registered as an Adventurer.

"Welcome to the General Guild Barga Branch of the Kingdom of Kurt Melga, oh, are you... Mr. Schwartz, were you? Could it be an application for promotion to the D-rank?

"Hello, Mirimaria. I finally earned guild points. Please apply for the promotion exam"

"Finally, how dare you, Mr. Schwartz... your 'exorcism', right? And yet I can't believe I'm earning Alliance Points in less than a month..."

"You knew I was a demon."

Mirimaria gave me a slightly worse look and told me about the crystal that registered me as an adventurer.

That crystal, when transcribing biological information to the guild card, first blinks white, then it develops to match the number and attributes of skills and skills it possesses, and they repeat the blink. However, when my information was transcribed, it was only one instant of the basic information, so Mirimaria, who has a long business, immediately found out that I have no magic.

Speaking of which, both Mr. Ashley and Mr. Millimaria were surprised by something at that time... so you noticed Ashley too.

"Is that so, well, but there's nothing wrong with that. This is how we repeatedly accomplish our request."

"Well, to be honest, I'm surprised, but that's all Mr. Schwartz has. Then let me also assume that as an official of the registration desk, I will perform my duties. It's a promotion to D-rank, but the exam involves going to the labyrinth of the tooth wolf, in the woods east of the fortified city of Barga, with the examiner, and running through the first basement floor to reach the second basement."

"Huh? Is that all?

"Mr. Schwartz, the labyrinth is by no means an easy place to say the first basement floor. Besides, this exam has a stronger pedagogical significance for the qualification of a Labyrinth Explorer, which is added at the same time as the promotion to the D-rank, rather than an aptitude test for the D-rank."

"I see, I get it. So, what does it feel like on the schedule of the exam?

"Please have a day to arrange for the examiner and come to the General Alliance main building the morning after tomorrow. You will also be able to view materials related to the labyrinth in the Library at the stage where you have applied for the D-rank promotion exam.

The day will be a day trip, so you don't need to prepare for the camp, but the exam begins when you have all the supplies and tools you need to explore the labyrinth, such as food. Find out for yourself what you will need and prepare "

"Okay, the morning after tomorrow."

To thank Mirimaria, I left the main building of the General Alliance and returned to the White Flower Pavilion of the Labyrinth.

The next day, I was in the library on the grounds of the General Guild in preparation for tomorrow's exam. The library is located on the third floor above ground, the basement floor is unknown, and the ground floor is mainly, they say, with various materials and books in nature, and labyrinth-related materials on the basement floor.

Labyrinth-related materials are not available to the public because they place restrictions on information in order to make it easier to explore them and prevent their lives from being hunted by the Labyrinth.

I also feel like I should make the danger known, but it still seems that adventurers have a lot of temperament to make reckless challenges, and in the past low-ranking groups have made reckless challenges and stimulating the labyrinth has been endless.

For this reason, they are fundamentally keeping general information about the labyrinth away and telling labyrinth seekers not to easily blow information about the labyrinth. But he says that what he says about people is a creature who wants to know secrets, and on the contrary, few adventurers are interested in keeping them secret, but he makes them a class privileged position where he said that if they become D-ranked, there is no regulation whatsoever, rather, less than an adventurer who can't be D-ranked, and he is aware that less than D-ranked aspires to that privilege and doesn't cheaply disparage the value of that privilege beyond D-ranked.

I was allowed to enter the basement floor for the D-rank promotion exam, but in fact it was only an opening of space on the basics of the labyrinth on the first basement floor.

Apparently the others will be opened up after passing. Bring several books into your browsing space to see what you need to explore, the basics, and more.

I will use the screen capture feature of the head goggles and capture and save where I can't seem to remember. There was also a map of the first basement floor of the labyrinth of the tooth wolf to be tested, but somehow it was like a graffiti with a clearly distorted scale.

The basics we found out about the labyrinth are that the size of each layer varies with the degree of growth of the labyrinth, and the labyrinth, which lives for hundreds of years without being able to attack, is so deep that the lowest level is not known, that even the newborn labyrinth has 10 layers.

The aisle width inside the labyrinth is between 8 and 10 m, while the small rooms on the road are also larger than 20 m on one side. Because there is essentially no light in the aisle, it is considered one of the tasks of the searcher to always bring seeds of white light grass and sow them in the dark when searching for the labyrinth.

Sown seeds grow with the magic of the labyrinth, and when flowers bloom, they bring light to the white light passage, the warcraft and subraces of the labyrinth continue to suck magic and bloom because they show no interest in white light grass.

The warcraft and subraces present in the labyrinth are like phantoms, created by the labyrinth using magic in its nucleus with demonic stones, and the labyrinth spits out demons into nature, calling warcraft and subraces around it, reading its information and producing the same in the labyrinth, apparently.

Therefore, to crusade the labyrinth, it is necessary to destroy or collect the Great Magic Stone (Dungeon Core) internally, as well as continue to crusade to prevent strong species from gathering around the labyrinth or producing superior species.

Warcraft and sub-races born in nature naturally use corpses as material, but only demonic stones remain when individuals in the labyrinth are basically killed. However, it seems that individuals who inhale enough magic vegetables internally and settle their bodies become superior species, and in addition to demonic stones, areas of particular magic can fall as drop items, which are characteristic horns or called biological weapons, swords and shields worn from the moment of birth.

They also absorb the equipment and belongings of the Explorer who died in the labyrinth into the labyrinth, but that can suck the magic vegetables of the labyrinth and be spit out into the labyrinth as a magic item, which is not falling on the side of the road, but appears on a pedestal in a large room inside the labyrinth, or in a temple behind a hidden passage, etc.

It's a mystery why this kind of thing appears, but some researchers say it's bait that attracts the common and beast races, which are predatory for the labyrinth, inside the labyrinth, and it's a play.

"I feel more cynical than I thought about the connection between the Labyrinth and the Explorer's life..."

So groaning, closing the book I was looking at, suddenly reminds me that I'm hungry.

"I'm hungry, and you want to buy me some tools for tomorrow and go home"

Let's get ready for tomorrow's D-rank promotion exam and try to get some sleep early today.