I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Lizardmen are a bipedal orc race covered in hard scales.

Adult lizards are physically robust, standing around two meters tall, and all possess strength at least at the first rank.

Most lizardmen are skilled in close-quarters combat, equivalent to the human professions of warrior and knight.

However, there are a few exceptions who can use magic.

Lizardmen who can use magic are generally quite powerful.

They belong to the wise men of the tribe.

Once they appear, they become leaders of the entire tribe after reaching adulthood.

The chieftain of the lizardman tribe that Anno attacked happened to be a wise man among the lizardmen.

It has always been in the yurt-shaped wooden house closest to the pool.

Although it was already dark, the lizardman chieftain was still reading books by lamplight.

It brought out the tribe's elite troops this time because it had heard that the humans in Warrenger had been quite active recently, so it was preparing to hunt them down.

If it could capture a human mage alive and obtain the human's method of cultivating magic, then it would have made a huge profit on this trip.

"The world of magic is truly vast!"

The lizardman chieftain closed the tattered magic book he had somehow acquired and sighed.

"If my magic can advance further, my people will march towards a more glorious future under my leadership, and becoming one of the top races among the orcs is not impossible!"

Just as it was lost in thought, it suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the cabin.

"Ugh~!"

A low groan, like one of pain.

Although the sound was soft, the lizardman chieftain still heard it.

"Has the enemy invaded?"

Being on the front lines, the lizardman chieftain was extremely vigilant.

It quickly picked up the wooden staff that held the blue crystal at its feet, cast a shield around itself, and began calling out the names of the guards outside.

After receiving no response, it immediately let out a piercing scream.

Upon hearing the sound, the lizardmen who were sleeping in the other cabins were immediately awakened, grabbed their weapons, and rushed out.

When the group of lizardmen came out, they suddenly froze.

A faint smell of blood lingered in the air outside.

More than two hundred first and second-tier tribesmen around the camp were all lying motionless on the ground.

Apart from the nearly one hundred lizardmen sleeping in a dozen or so wooden huts, all the other lizardmen had been killed in a sneak attack by the Ghost Soul.

"Watch out for those flying things, they're the enemy!"

A lizardman, seeing the ghostly spirits drifting in the sky, quickly warned them.

More than twenty Tier 3 lizardmen arrived at the wooden hut where the lizardman chieftain was located immediately.

They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their chieftain emerge unharmed.

The lizardman chieftain used a perception skill, and the pitch-black night became clear in his eyes.

The surrounding environment and the ghostly spirits emanating magical energy came into its view.

"These are the Ghostly Souls from the Demon Realm. Why are they attacking us?"

The lizardman chieftain had a gloomy expression.

Although they are all monsters, it is not uncommon for them to kill each other.

It didn't even realize that humans were manipulating everything behind the scenes.

"Even if you are a creature of the demon realm, you must pay with your life for killing so many of my people!"

The lizardman chieftain roared, and the tip of his staff crackled and popped.

As a ghostly spirit drifted by, a lightning ball the size of a human head flew toward it at an extremely fast speed.

Click!

The ghost soul struck by the lightning ball was instantly killed before it could even scream!

"Level 21, and knows lightning magic!"

Anno, who was hiding in the distance, was shocked to see this.

Although he had guessed during the day that there might be a high-level lizardman in the cabin, he estimated that it was only around level 20!

According to his plan, the forty level 20 Ghost Souls, empowered by the [Berserk] skill, would first silently eliminate the first and second-tier lizardmen outside.

Then go deal with the second and third-tier lizardmen sleeping in the wooden hut.

Unexpectedly, during the Ghost Soul's operation, the lizardmen guarding the wooden house by the pool noticed something was wrong.

Anno quickly ordered the three Ghost Souls to focus their attacks on the opponent.

One uses intimidation, one uses deception, and one uses soul-stealing.

Unexpectedly, the other party still made a sound, which was noticed by the lizardmen inside the wooden house.

"The leader is a level 21 lizardman who knows lightning magic, and there are twenty-three third-tier lizardmen next to him, and the remaining sixty-odd are all second-tier!"

I'm only one step away from reaching the fourth tier; in this situation, it's worth using [King's Power]!

Anno made a decision in his mind in an instant.

Unlike when he rescued the elf, he fought against Horace, a fourth-tier warrior from Selby City.

Lightning magic is extremely fast; even a ghost cannot react to it.

Moreover, upon being hit, the lightning instantly spread throughout the body, shattering the crystal and causing immediate death.

Clearly, this magic is very powerful!

If Youpo doesn't use [King's Power], he's likely to be killed by the opponent first.

It just so happens that the reptilians are all gathered together right now.

A group of ghostly spirits were drawing the attention of the lizardman chieftain.

Two more, under Anno's command, sneaked in from behind.

Once they were close enough, the two ghostly spirits immediately accelerated their approach.

Upon sensing the intense magical fluctuations behind him, the lizardman chieftain quickly erected a spherical protective shield around himself.

Some of the higher-level Tier 3 lizardmen also sensed the danger and instinctively fled in all directions.

boom!

A white light appeared.

A violent tremor came, and the pool next to it shook a few times.

"They're definitely not that easy to deal with!"

When Anno saw dozens of green souls and a few yellow souls flying towards him, he knew that the magic-wielding lizardman was not dead.

The opponent is at the fourth rank, and their soul color is orange!

Although mages are physically weak, they all possess several shield-granting skills.

Stab it!

A bolt of lightning shot out from the smoke and struck the ghostly spirit in mid-air.

Lightning continued to emanate from the hit ghost spirit, connecting to the other one.

The lightning struck five ghostly spirits in succession before stopping.

The cores of the five ghostly spirits shattered instantly, turning into white light and disappearing.

In the past, Anno would have felt heartbroken.

But now, Anno has reached level 21.

Among the several yellow-level souls just now, although they were all level 16 or 17 lizardman souls, Anno only needed a few hundred more experience points to level up.

He has now reached level four!

Physical fitness has been enhanced in all aspects.

Anno clearly felt that this enhancement was stronger than any before.

In the past, when advancing to a higher level, the overall physical fitness was enhanced by about one time.

But after the enhancement just now, Anno felt that his strength had increased by at least two times.

"No wonder mid-level professionals are so strong!"

Anno recalled the scene of being brutally beaten by Horace.

If Anno hadn't acquired a lot of Ghost Souls in Gray Dream Village, and if his [King's Power] hadn't been comparable to a fourth-tier magic, he wouldn't have been a match for him in that battle.

The lizardman in front of them was also a fourth-tier powerhouse.

This explains why it could so easily kill a third-tier Nether Soul and defend against [King's Power].

The fourth-tier shield is also very strong!

"Have you already reached level four?"

A familiar voice suddenly appeared in my mind.

"She's really awake!" Anno breathed a sigh of relief, then said, "Let me deal with this fourth-tier monster first, then we'll talk!"

After saying that, a necromancer's heart appeared in Anno's hand!

This is the undead heart of Asar, a level 25, fourth-tier zombie, who was killed by Sylvia during the great battle against the zombies besieging Val'kam.

"Although you are very strong, fortunately I also have a fourth-tier summon!"

As the light flashed, a necromancer with a festering, mangled body appeared before Anno.

"Long time no see, Asa!"