"The Ladder Tournament is a battle for the Adventurers' Guild's highest honor.
At the center of the East Blue stands the Pyramid, built from countless enormous square platforms floating in the air. It has 100 floors, each with a defender. Defeat the defender to advance to the next floor. Of course, attacks against fellow competitors are unrestricted on every floor. You can cooperate or fight one another. Every ten floors you climb advances you to the next rank! The ranks range from one to ten.
Rank ten is the highest rank an Adventurer can attain.
This tournament is an unrestricted competition. Under the protection of the Miracle Holy Grail, no participant in the Ladder Tournament can truly die. Death means elimination, and anyone eliminated will be resurrected outside the arena by the Holy Grail's miraculous power.
If you consider yourself strong enough, you can enter alone. You can also form a team, of course, but teams may have no more than ten members!
The prize for this tournament is the Holy Grail of the Miracle of Light. Whoever touches the Holy Grail first takes first place! And the Holy Grail is on the hundredth floor!" In the most famous tavern in the Sabaody Archipelago, a young man holding a newspaper excitedly read its contents aloud to the people around him.
"You've said all that, but you haven't told us what this Holy Grail does! Don't tell me it's just for drinking!" A burly, bald man with unkempt stubble teased the young man in the yellow beret, whose face was lightly freckled.
Ace gave the burly man an exasperated look. "Hmph, clean out your ears and listen carefully to what I'm about to say. Don't let your jaw hit the floor!"
"Stop keeping us in suspense! Tell us! Tell us!" The