I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

As the remnants of the Kingdom's Tenth Army and the Demon King's Seventh Army marched, their scouts began to engage in battle.

Human scouts consist of hunters with battle pets and thieves.

The monsters' scouts consisted of lizardmen and centaurs.

Lizardmen and centaurs are both agile fighters, possessing not only high speed but also strong attack power.

The former is a bipedal lizard, typically about two meters tall, with strong limbs!

Centaurs have four horse hooves, a human upper body and hands, and a horse's head with black horns!

Centaurs are a demonized race of centaurs, who have human appearances and belong to the Order faction.

The scouts from both sides met and began fighting.

The human side has a slightly higher level and more skills.

The monsters are strong and numerous.

After leaving behind more than a dozen corpses on each side, both sides began to retreat.

The reason for the retreat was, of course, that the main force had arrived.

If they don't run now, the scouts in the middle will be heavily bombarded by the ranged forces of both sides.

On a hilltop, Anno and his group of adventurers watched as the monster army approached from the distant horizon and the monsters hovering in the sky.

"Within the first hour of the battle, we must find a way to get close to the battlefield and collect souls!"

Anno and the others were ordered by Tester to stay here.

The thirty-odd Iron-level adventurers beside Anno had all experienced killing over a thousand monsters, and they had witnessed the shock of thousands of monster corpses when dealing with them.

Seeing thousands of monsters charging towards the Tenth Army from a distance of one kilometer, many people were only somewhat shocked.

But other adventurers and mercenaries don't have this mindset.

Most people feel their scalp tingle when they see a dense swarm of monsters.

Some people even regretted coming to join the fun, worried that monsters might rush over.

However, the first exchange between the two sides brought a sigh of relief to many mercenaries and Anno.

As the monster troops were about to charge, the hundred-man mage squadron of the Tenth Army unleashed powerful second-tier spells.

The monsters in front of the monster army are all cannon fodder below level 10. They are instantly killed if they are hit by second-tier magic of any element.

The continuous explosions, the tremors of the ground, and the screams of the monsters marked the official start of the battle.

A formation of hundreds of harpies and gargoyles flew over the Tenth Army.

The harpy unleashed wind magic downwards, while the gargoyle hurled the boulder in its hand at the mage squad below.

The mages immediately erected shields, and then, under Tester's command, joined the hunter squad to attack and eliminate the monsters in the air.

"Moo~!"

In the area bombarded by the first round of magic, a large number of monsters rushed out of the smoke and dust with a bellow, colliding with the front line of the Tenth Army.

Strong minotaurs, ugly cannibals, mountain dogs over three meters tall, and so on.

"kill!"

A deafening sound rang out, and the thousands of professionals of the Tenth Army charged towards the monster without any fear.

The entire battlefield was like a meat grinder, with large numbers of low-level monsters falling every moment.

The guards of the 10th Army had a hierarchical advantage over these cannon fodder who were charging ahead.

However, there were losses, though the casualty ratio was almost 30:1.

Thirty monster cannon fodder will die for every one human soldier who dies!

Soldiers with second-tier skills are simply not something that cannon fodder monsters can withstand!

However, with cannon fodder blocking the way in front, the ranged monsters such as cannibalistic mages and night hunters in the rear army unleashed a barrage of attacks.

Anno also saw a familiar scene: a group of high-level, large monsters began throwing stones at the human army!

This caused considerable casualties to the 10th Army.

The third prince frowned as he looked at the seriously wounded man who had been carried to the side of the priest at the back, and ordered several generals above level 15 to lead their soldiers into the battlefield.

The vanguard of the monsters is mostly level 5 to 10.

A group of elite troops at levels 14 and 15, led by several generals above level 5, moved like wolves among sheep, instantly tearing a gap in the vanguard of the monsters.

A large number of soldiers followed this opening, tearing apart the vanguard of the monsters and advancing towards the elite forces of the monsters.

Wielding a large, serrated sword, the Goat Demon rode a level 15 half-goat, leading the Lion-Headed Chieftain, the Lizardman Chieftain, and a host of elites, charging into the battlefield to fight against the human elites who served as the spearhead.

If Liz were nearby, she could also see her sister Ella fighting here.

Less than twenty minutes into the battle, a quarter of the monster's three thousand vanguard cannon fodder had been wiped out.

The 10th Army left only 500 men to deal with the remaining cannon fodder, while the rest fought alongside the elite monster troops.

Although there are many monsters, and their individual strength is stronger than that of humans at the same level, the Tenth Army has a level advantage and almost crushes the monsters with overwhelming force!

"Very good, very good, let's keep fighting at this momentum." Tester, who was riding his warhorse behind the Tenth Army, had a glint of madness in his eyes.

"The Demon King's Seventh Army, which brought countless disasters and humiliations to the kingdom ten years ago, will be buried by the kingdom's Tenth Army, which I lead today!"

This battle will not only wash away the kingdom's shame from ten years ago, but also mark the beginning of my rise to power!

Tester's reluctance to let adventurers and mercenaries join the battle was not out of arrogance.

The reputation gained from eliminating the remnants of the Demon King's Seventh Army on your own is far greater than the reputation gained from defeating a monster army with the help of others and by taking advantage of numerical superiority.

As his prestige increases, he will have a chance to become the first in line to the throne!

Soldiers kept falling in the battle ahead, but Tester didn't care at all.

Because the monsters suffered far greater losses than the Tenth Army!

Moreover, compared to the final harvest, what does the death of a few guards matter!

"The birth of a king is always built upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood!"

Tester thought to himself.

Forty minutes into the battle, the vanguard of three thousand monsters had lost more than half of their strength, and the elite force of two thousand had also lost more than three hundred!

The number of human casualties has just exceeded two hundred!

On a distant hilltop, Anno was already preparing to quietly join the battle.

The soul of a monster will dissipate if it remains for more than an hour after death.

Anno's current maximum absorption range for monster souls is two hundred meters.

There are now thousands of green souls and hundreds of yellow souls on the battlefield!

If it's absorbed, Anno will be rolling in money.

But just as Anno was about to slip into the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed.

Suddenly, a black mist appeared on the battlefield and spread until it reached a diameter of 100 meters before stopping.

Hundreds of humans, monsters, and magical beasts that were engaged in battle were affected.

Within the area shrouded in black mist, both humans and monsters collapsed to the ground in agony, howling in pain.

The fallen humans, monsters, and even beasts had their veins bulging and black patterns appearing on their bodies.

They seemed oblivious to the pain, frantically scratching their flesh with their nails or claws.

Blood splattered everywhere, and strips of flesh were torn off.

Before long, there were hardly any good pieces of flesh left on their bodies, and dark blood flowed all over the ground. Their bodies gradually fell silent.

Then, the surrounding black mist surged wildly into the corpses.

A few seconds later, the black mist on the battlefield completely disappeared, leaving only hundreds of corpses and a figure holding a black magic wand in the center of the corpses.

A fat worm occasionally crawls out from the rotting body, its white eyes, oozing pus, keep turning, its mouth, revealing its gums, splits into a smile, and its hands, which are almost nothing but bones, wave a staff.

As the staff was waved, the corpses around, which were being corrupted by the black mist, suddenly began to move.

Their flesh kept falling off as they shook, and soon only a skeleton remained.

The human skeletons picked up shields and weapons from the ground and charged at the humans around them, along with the monsters and the skeleton monsters formed from the monsters!

When the surrounding soldiers saw this scene, their fear intensified rapidly, and they retreated repeatedly.

Seeing this from the rear of the battlefield, Tester, along with his three-scarred warrior guard and the white-bearded old guard, exclaimed in unison, "A lich!"