As for the so-called "second floor" of the Barracuda Bay branch, which only Adventurer of Professional rank were qualified to enter, Xia Nan had already formed a guess the moment he followed the stairs down from the Association entrance and saw the sunken "courtyard-gallery" design inside.
And the final result was just as he had expected.
After asking and receiving Mar's affirmative answer, this extremely conscientious and responsible receptionist very considerately led him out of the small meeting room.
Their destination was the wall to the southeast of the courtyard gallery.
When he had first arrived at the Association, Xia Nan had not noticed it because of the Adventurer coming and going around the nearby shops and the structure of the building itself.
Now, after Mar's reminder, he looked again and saw a small, inconspicuous stairwell quietly sitting there.
However, the spiral Sea Rock steps inside did not extend upward to a second floor like in River Valley Town, but curved all the way downward, descending into deeper underground reaches beyond sight.
Clearly, because of Barracuda Bay's unique geographical environment, as well as the special location of this branch beside the bay.
The "Association Second Floor" Xia Nan had originally imagined had, in this place, already become a "basement level."
The stairwell leading downward was not hidden. To a certain extent, it could even be said to be completely exposed to the sight of every Adventurer in the courtyard.
Xia Nan also did not detect any kind of strength-testing, or movement-restricting, spell effect near the stairs.
But after so many years since the Association's establishment, it had long since made these Adventurer, who entrusted their lives to Gold Coin and threw their weight around in towns, develop the habit of obeying Association rules.
The rows of lines before the counter,