About the Adventurer's Guild.

Apart from the majestic building on the surface, many adventurers privately speculate that the building must have unknown structures—like a hidden basement below.

Of course, this is just one of the many wild guesses of the adventurers.

However, Mira Belle knows, although it's just a wild guess by the adventurers, it turns out to be true; there's indeed a basement beneath the guild.

Moreover, because it is deeply buried underground, the Demons from the Demon Tide haven't caused any damage to the basement, and every brick here comes from the original guild.

At this moment, she's walking through the passage to that basement... accompanied by the new guild leader.

Besides the two of them, there is only the maid who follows Chairman Fa'er like a shadow.

Having already inquired about the relationship between the new guild leader and the headquarters' president, Mira Belle was initially worried that her position might be replaced by the subordinates brought by the new guild leader.

But after a few days of interaction, the other party seemed to somewhat acknowledge her abilities, without raising any issues in taking over the work thus far.

This brief calmness did not make her completely relax, as she vaguely sensed that this new guild leader did not just want to keep the branch as it was.

Under his leadership, it surely can't be the same as before, slacking off.

Sure enough, shortly after taking office, a matter arose.

The air in the passageway is cold and stifling, with a scent of dust and dampness, indicating that not many people pass through here regularly.

The stone steps spiral downward, as if sinking into the core of the earth.

Every step they took on the stone steps, their footsteps were mostly swallowed by the thick darkness, leaving only hollow echoes spiraling, dissipating in the unseen depths below.

It seemed as though a giant beast below had devoured everything.

Fa'er suddenly stopped, frowning at the small magic crystal lamp on the wall, then looking at the darkness below the stairs.

"Mira Belle, is the guild's finance very tight?"

"Ah?" Suddenly asked an unexpected question, Mira Belle took two seconds to respond, "No, not really tight."

"Then why aren't the lights on? Don't you think it's a bit too dark?"

"Oh! Yes! Yes!"

As Mira Belle moved somewhat flusteredly, the array on the wall was activated, and the small magic crystal lamps lit up with orange-yellow light.

The underground passage suddenly brightened up.

Although there remained the dusty scent, at least it no longer looked like a way to a dungeon.

Before long, the few of them arrived at the end of the passage, in front of a stone door with a defense array.

Fa'er raised the branch president's seal, injecting magic power into it to activate the mark.

The massive stone wall silently slid open without a hint of friction noise, revealing the monitoring room behind.

Swiping away the falling dust, as Fa'er stepped forward, Lillian had already entered first and scanned around.

This was a monitoring room for the dungeon, albeit an old version.

The work of monitoring the dungeon had been assigned to the intelligence department long ago.

The intelligence department had several devices placed in different layers of the dungeon to collect changes in magic power, merely to predict the arrival of a Demon Tide in advance.

As for this monitoring room before them, it was responsible for direct monitoring of the Dungeon Core.

The principle was pretty much the same, collecting magic power changes through devices installed not far from the core for some analysis.

However, this thing hadn't been used for a long time.

Since the installation time of the devices was about two hundred years ago, many of the alchemy designs within were outdated.

Compared to the newly installed monitoring devices, it was energy-consuming, had fuzzy information, and was cumbersome to operate.

The key point was that it couldn't yield any useful information.

The core had been the same for hundreds of years, in a bird-like state.

If it's just for the Demon Tide alert, the new devices were enough.

During Obel's tenure as the branch president, it was never used, Mira Belle wasn't even sure if this thing still worked!

No one knew what Chairman Fa'er was thinking, insisting on coming to try it once.

Looking at the old and complex equipment structure before her, Mira Belle could only take out the manual and operate the array on the device according to the instructions on the manual with specific runes.

Fortunately, although Mira Belle wasn't familiar with this thing, her professional quality was still intact.

With the help of the manual, she successfully started up this old antique in just two hours.

Mira Belle's only thought upon seeing it light up was: it actually still works!

Soon, the information from the monitoring devices was presented before them.

No visuals, no specifics, just data about the magic changes near the core.

Looking at the data, Mira Belle frowned immediately.

Repeatedly comparing the manual with the data before her.

"What's wrong?" Fa'er asked.

He was not an expert in this area and was unaware of the meanings represented by the content.

After taking several more looks, Mira Belle replied: "Very strange, the recorded activity level of the Dungeon Core's magic power is much lower than recorded in the manual, and…"

"And what?"

"And it seems to be continuing to decline?" Mira Belle herself couldn't quite believe the answer she was speaking out, "But this is impossible! Such a situation never happened in the dungeon."

At least not before.

Magic power activity level continuously decreasing?

If the activity level keeps declining, what would happen to the dungeon?

Mira Belle didn't know, but she was very afraid of that situation happening.

While Fa'er had a naturally expected expression on his face.

Same as he speculated on the way, Demons crossing layers were indeed a problem with the core.

Although he guessed right, there was nothing happy about it, it was a big trouble!

Think of the worst, the Purple Crystal Dungeon has a risk of collapsing.

So the question arises, is it the Demons causing changes in the core, or is it the core causing the Demons' abnormality?

What's the situation with other dungeons, is it only the Purple Crystal Dungeon like this, or are others the same, just this one was discovered first?

The Tide Sanctuary located in the Western Islands, the Purple Crystal Dungeon situated in the southern kingdom, the Scarecrow Abyss located at the junction of Elf, Dwarf and human territories.

These are all dungeons managed by the guild, and it's necessary to inspect them all.

Thinking of this, Fa'er said, "Mira Belle, directly activate the communication device to contact Guild Headquarters, explain the whole situation, and have them notify the other dungeon branches to conduct inspections, and send 'experts' here!"

So-called experts refer to both engineering personnel familiar with arrays and alchemy, as well as those truly high-end combat personnel.

Delving into the Dungeon Core isn't some outing, there are numerous Demons with strength far beyond Diamond Level, without sufficient force protection, going down would be like signing one's death warrant.

Mira Belle quite agreed with the new guild leader's approach of tossing the trouble away, fearing those hot-headed ones, wanting to solve everything themselves, in the end, turning into a clown and implicating their subordinates.

However, Fa'er's commanding tone to the Guild Headquarters still made her eyelids jump, probably only someone of Fa'er's status dared to speak like that...

She also knew the importance of the matter, hurriedly shut down the old equipment, and rushed to the communication room.

As for Fa'er, he didn't intend to do nothing before the headquarters' 'experts' arrived.

The 'experts' were responsible for investigating the Dungeon Core, while he planned to start from the anomaly with the Demons to see if he could gain any insights.

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Two days later.

In the meeting hall of the Adventurer's Guild responsible for receiving important personnel.

A dead illuminating Puki was quietly lying in the center of the long table, and surrounding it, were the elites invited and prepared to take part in the action.

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