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Adventurer's Guild.

To understand the adventurers' situation, just look out the door of the guild hall. Being a sneaky eavesdropper will give you 70% of the current situation.

When Chu Yan first came here, he learned about the various situations of the imperial blockade in almost the same way. If you prick up your ears, you can know a lot of situations. It just depends on whether you have the mind to pay attention to them.

During the time when Chu Yan was not paying attention to the adventurers' movements, everything was going on in an orderly manner.

Adventurers accept exploration commissions, come back to hand in their tasks, wait for the results to be announced, and compete with each other for rankings.

After taking turns to go back and forth, the adventurers have optimized their own internal plans.

Perhaps this is the benefit of having well-developed rules. Without the driver, everything can be carried out according to the set procedures.

But compared to the past, it always feels a little quieter.

Chu Yan stood in front of the guild hall for a long time, thinking about where this feeling came from.

Just as Chu Yan was deep in thought, his head was hit by something, neither light nor heavy.

Bending over to pick it up, Chu Yan discovered that it was a quill pen. This kind of thing was not like a branch that would fall off easily.

He looked up and found President Zhilan standing by the office window, looking down at her.

Her upper body was slightly leaning out of the window, and her charming and seductive face was quite attractive. As eye-catching as her appearance was her plump chest resting on the windowsill.

At first glance, apart from President Zhilan's outstanding face, there are two big nipples.

"Young lord, what are you thinking about downstairs so absent-mindedly? I called you twice but got no response. I only responded after I threw the quill pen at you." As President Zhilan spoke, the corners of her mouth curved into a graceful curve.

"I was thinking about the adventurers..."

Chu Yan was about to explain, but President Zhilan interrupted him and said:

"Come up and talk."

After entering the guild hall and skillfully going to the president's office upstairs, Chu Yan returned the quill pen to the pen holder.

He sat down on the sofa where he often sat. He felt that this seat had become his exclusive one and he sat here every time he came.

President Zhilan brought him a cup of coffee. She sat down next to Chu Yan. Her plump buttocks wrapped in the fabric of her skirt pressed down the sofa, faintly conveying a warm feminine fragrance.

Chu Yan took a sip of coffee and continued the previous topic:

"I just looked downstairs to see the situation of the adventurers. It seems that there is not much room for improvement, but it also feels a little deserted."

President Zhilan understood Chu Yan's words, stared at them and thought for a while, then she understood it and said:

"When the young lord said it was deserted, he probably meant that there were fewer clergymen, right?"

After hearing what President Zhilan said, Chu Yan realized that it was indeed a problem with the clergy.

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During the period before and after the second round of exploration commissions, clergymen served as staff and took on a considerable part of the affairs, and clergymen could be seen almost everywhere.

During that time, in addition to its original functions of worship, treatment, and teaching of ordinary combat skills and magic, the small church in the city almost became a second office for the Adventurer's Guild.

Nowadays, one can still see clergymen occasionally walking around in the city, but their presence has become much weaker.

"Does President Zhilan understand the reasons for this?"

"It's because of the dismissal of the Arch Sister. Many previous arrangements were finalized with the help of her influence, and she also has a high prestige among ordinary clergy. Even if someone else were to take over now, it would be difficult for her to have the same appeal as her."

During that period of time, it can be said that the interests of the church and the adventurers were aligned, and the clergy were naturally willing to serve as volunteers for the Adventurer's Guild.

Helping the Adventurer's Guild to share the pressure is ultimately helping the church itself, and then with Josephine's call for action, the clergy assigned to do the work do their best, considering it an important mission as a clergyman.

But some recent events have disrupted the previous unity.

After all, grassroots clergy are driven by faith, which is the core driving force of their actions. Events such as the Relic Square and the Mysterious City-State are shaking their faith one after another.

Josephine's previous decision to "refuse to approach the mysterious city-state" was against her faith and did not seem like something a devout believer would do.

But the clergy knew emotionally that Josephine would not harm them.

All these things are confusing the clergy. They lack some channels for cutting-edge information and are probably shrouded in confusion at the moment.

I can't figure out what the current situation is within the church, so which side should I listen to?

The clergy in the city are in such a confused state, how can they have the energy to help with other things?

Chu Yan nodded to show his understanding: "Is this what you, President Josephine and Zhilan, said?"

"It was Theresa. She came here yesterday and talked to me about this. Generally speaking, it is difficult to mobilize the clergy in the city to help deal with anything. I just don't know what decision the church leaders in the archdiocese will make later."

President Zhilan looked worried, but she had no idea how to deal with it, so all she could do was sigh.

She and Josephine and others were close partners. The church's top brass dismissed Josephine, and President Zhilan was also very dissatisfied, thinking that there was something wrong.

Ever since the bishop's cronies came to cause trouble, President Zhilan has doubted the ability of the church's top leaders.

Chu Yan sighed and said, "I will go to the small parish to visit them later. What's the situation with the adventurers?"

"No, the adventurers are much more stable, nothing has happened."

"But I see that there are fewer adventurers outside. It's even more desolate and deserted than the previous 'working days'."

Nowadays, the day when the results are announced every month should be considered a day of rest for adventurers. They come out to check the rankings for fun, replenish resources, rest for a day or two, and then go back into the tower.

President Zhilan explained with a smile: "The reason for the quietness is quite surprising. Some adventure groups plan to unite and set up camp deep inside for rest and supplies. They don't want to go in and out of the Tower of Babel frequently."

Chu Yan touched his chin, feeling that this was also a stupid move, and said worriedly:

"Is this safe? There are still many monsters in the deep layers. If the adventure team sets up camp, I'm afraid they will have to deal with the trouble of monsters harassing the camp at any time."

He said it very implicitly, but what he actually wanted to say was that only the Imperial Army had the conditions to camp in the deep layers, and it would be a bit suicidal for the adventure group to follow suit.

The Imperial Army can send a large number of people to carry out missions while leaving behind a few hundred people to guard the camp.

But it is difficult for adventure groups. A large adventure group has only about fifty people, which is too few. And if several adventure groups unite, how will the guarding work be carried out?

No one in the adventure group wants to suffer a loss. Once one person cheats or takes advantage, the cooperation will immediately fall apart.

The issue of profit distribution has always been the primary conflict among adventurers.

President Zhilan showed a mysterious expression, and she smiled and kept the secret:

"As for the reason, I was also surprised when I found out about it. Little Lord, try to guess it."

"Let me guess... I can't guess~ The difficulty of the adventure groups setting up camp together is no less than the difficulty of uniting to fight against the imperial blockade."

Chu Yan admitted defeat and smiled helplessly.

The Imperial blockade is related to everyone's livelihood. As long as the bad apples are eliminated, everyone's vision and goal are the same: enter the tower normally to hunt monsters and survive.

But it is not so easy to coordinate the distribution of benefits in this kind of joint camping cooperation, and no one wants to suffer any loss.

"It's related to the Empire. A large army of the Empire has set up camp. They have cleared out all the monsters in a fairly large area. In addition, some adventurers have discovered that this batch of Imperial troops has become much more 'kind' and will not openly target them.

Therefore, adventure groups began to set up temporary camps in that area, but they were also on guard against the imperial army. The camps were very simple and could be abandoned at any time."

Chu Yan smiled suddenly.

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How could the adventurers reach such cooperation spontaneously? It turns out they were just trying to take advantage of the fruits of the Empire's labor!

The Imperial Army's style of conduct is determined by the commander-in-chief.

The previous commander was General Shi Li, who was ambitious and needed to suppress adventurers to highlight his own achievements.

The current commanders are Princess Ye Na and Aunt Organ. Just for Chu Yan's sake, they will not target the adventurers.

"President Zhilan, you can let the adventurers stay here without worry. Send some guild staff to the tower and set up a temporary adventurer guild. There will be no problem. The imperial army will not target them anymore."

Seeing Chu Yan's confident tone, President Zhilan's expression was subtle and she found it funny. She said:

"So, the young lord really has a say in the Imperial Army?"

The projection magic stone that Chu Yan took out earlier directly showed everyone the "first-person perspective of the live battle in the mysterious city-state", which had exposed his relationship with the top leaders of the imperial army.

But this may just be a temporary cooperation, which will end when the cooperation is over.

When Chu Yan was in the Ruins Square, he had already revealed a little bit of his reputation. Anyone who was interested could probably find out that he had successfully dealt with the Angel of Discipline. It was understandable that the imperial army was going to attack the mysterious city-state that was highly related to the church and consult Chu Yan.

Now, what Chu Yan revealed seemed to be saying: You can set up a temporary guild at will, I just need to say hello.

This really made President Zhilan feel very complicated.

We all agreed that we were all members of a faction close to the church, but suddenly you have connections everywhere!

In the past, everyone thought that it was because of Chu Yan's family that the church paid attention to him and started in-depth cooperation with him, and it seemed that they were firmly bound together. But he suddenly showed off a little skill and revealed that his relationship with the empire was not as bad as imagined.

Although he was the one who killed the general of the empire and he was the one who manipulated and broke the blockade behind the scenes, it did not stop him from secretly communicating with the empire now.

Although he helped the church accomplish many great things and increased the church's influence in the Babel city area, it did not prevent him from killing the church's top leaders one after another.

It's really hard to figure out which side this kid's butt is on.

Chu Yan felt a little embarrassed by the gaze of President Zhilan. He pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled awkwardly:

"I'm not as powerful as you think, President Zhilan. I just helped suppress the other party's forbidden power and established a friendship with them. My lobbying may not necessarily make the Imperial Army and the adventurers get along well, but there should be no problem in non-interference."

President Zhilan still had some doubts, but since Chu Yan had said this, there was nothing to worry about:

"Then, little lord, do you have any new ideas? Regarding the adventurers, the previous concept of the arena is really eye-opening!"

"Thank you for the compliment. I've been running out of ideas lately. I guess I've run out of ideas... As for the arrangements for the adventurers, we'll have to see what the Discipline Pope says."

The Pope of Discipline said that she could guess the location of the first enchantment site, which could be regarded as a guide for the adventurers' subsequent work.

The exploration commissions issued by the guild can be directly adjusted to the direction given by the Pope of Discipline, without the need for map-based search.

When President Zhilan heard Chu Yan talk about this, she hurried to the desk and took out a new map.

This is the Tower of Babel map that the guild updates every day. After adventurers submit the results of their exploration commissions, Miss Milanqi will help add new areas and place the map on the president's desk.

Chu Yan was planning to go over and take a look, but President Zhilan waved her hand to signal him to just sit still and she would move.

Soon, President Zhilan walked back to the reception area and sat down gracefully. The side slits of her skirt revealed a pair of long, graceful flesh-colored legs. The brown flesh color was slightly darker than her skin, but it still had a visually graceful beauty and exuded the warm fragrance of a young woman.

"Yesterday, Commander De Luoya came over and asked me to arrange the recent exploration commissions in this direction."

Chu Yan took a look at the direction marked by President Zhilan and found that it was an undeveloped area, a large unknown region.

It seems like we have a specific direction to explore, but it doesn't seem much different from blind exploration. We still have to explore slowly, bit by bit.

He was a little surprised. He thought the Discipline Pope would keep it a secret and wait for him to ask. It turned out that she was just guessing based on the magic circle at that time.

"Commander Deloya only told me the location, did he circle out the general area?"

"No, Commander Deroya said that after further analysis by the Pope of Discipline, the location will be refined again, but it will not deviate too much."

Come to think of it, if the Pope of Discipline could directly mark the approximate location, with the current manpower, it would basically take two days to figure out all the cracks in the rocks there.

If we have a direction, we can only put all our manpower into it and explore in one direction to the end.

Chu Yan glanced at the time and said, "Okay, then I'll have to trouble President Zhilan to make the arrangements. I'll also give some advice to the Imperial Army and ask them to explore in this direction. This will reduce the pressure on the adventurers."

President Zhilan shrugged her shoulders and smiled charmingly:

"Why do I feel like the person I'm talking to now is the representative of the Imperial Army~?"

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This kind of joke is not allowed. It's too tempting for me. I should go back to eat."

Chu Yan responded jokingly, already intending to leave. He drank the cold coffee in one gulp, which was the etiquette as a guest.

President Zhilan did not force anyone to stay. She handed the map to Chu Yan, indicating that he could take it away. Finally, she asked:

"The arrival of the Pope of Discipline seems to indicate that something is wrong within the church system. I won't ask about this. I want to know whether the previous plans still need to be prepared as normal during the 'rest month' in a while."

The "rest month" she mentioned naturally refers to the Colosseum plan.

In order to keep the adventurers full of enthusiasm, specially prepared rest activities will not only relax them but also improve their strength and quality.

If you calculate the time, it will probably be another two months before the next “rest month”.