I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

The guards at the city gate stopped Anno and carefully checked his identity.

Even the bag of monster-hunting artifacts on Anno's back was examined – Anno had taken these things out beforehand to avoid revealing his storage ring.

A whole bunch of possessions, at least a hundred.

This is because Anno only contributed a small portion.

After all, hunting down more than a thousand monsters in just over ten days is quite remarkable.

Even so, it still surprised the soldiers at the city gate.

The way they were looking at Anno was strange.

Is this ordinary-looking guy really that strong?

After confirming Anno's human identity and seeing the contract marks on Liz and Sassi, the soldiers let them pass.

"There are quite a few professionals returning from outside today, supposedly due to an increase in the number of monsters. We're conducting this routine check to prevent monsters from disguising themselves as humans and sneaking into the city. It's not targeting you personally!"

Hearing the soldier's explanation, Anno nodded silently.

"Could it be that I'm not the only one who encountered a regular Demon Lord army? Judging from the fact that we can see traces of a regular Demon Lord army right now, the day when the Demon Lord army attacks Worengel shouldn't be far off."

Anno was somewhat uncertain.

But he was already feeling a bit anxious.

He has only just entered the fourth tier and hasn't even mastered the fourth-tier skills yet.

"Even if war breaks out, I'll at least need to master fourth-tier summoner skills before I participate!"

Having made up his mind, Anno led Liz straight to the army's exchange office.

Before leaving, he wanted to exchange these things for money.

A fourth-tier possession can yield a considerable reward.

The exchange point was not located in the military camp.

To facilitate the exchange of bounties by mercenaries and independent professionals leaving the city, an exchange point was set up more than 200 meters away from the city gate.

Having already visited twice, Anno was very familiar with the process.

There were quite a lot of people at the exchange counter today.

Recalling what the soldier had said about many people returning from outside, Anno understood.

Among the crowd, some professionals recognized Anno.

After all, Anno, the succubus, and the Silver Moon Blood Wolf team, along with their previous performance, are still well-known to many people.

"Hey, An, long time no see! I didn't expect you to still be alive!"

A bold voice came from the side.

Upon hearing this, Anno turned around and saw a red-haired warrior wearing silver-white armor.

The soldier was tall and handsome, and looked to be in his early twenties.

However, his condition was not very good.

His head was wrapped in blood-stained bandages, and his armor was tattered and torn.

He walked up to Anuo with a loud laugh and asked, "I heard you left the city half a month ago and haven't come back."

Everyone previously thought that you had encountered a powerful demon outside the city and died!

Hahaha......"

"How can you talk like that?" Liz frowned from the side. "Do you want me to beat you up?"

"Liz!" Anno winked at Liz, then looked at the warrior in front of him and smiled, "Lance, you just got back from outside today too?"

Lance was the one who had been trying to invite Anno to join his mercenary group and had promised Anno the position of vice-captain.

The level is 22.

Anno had met with him twice.

Lance is a generous and easygoing person who doesn't fuss over details and speaks in a very blunt and outspoken manner.

So Anno didn't pay attention to what he had said before.

Moreover, on the surface, Lance is a fourth-tier mercenary group leader.

However, Anno noticed from the information panel that Lance's surname was the same as that of the city lord, Lord Warrengel.

This inevitably makes Anno think more.

An image of a noble young man who loved passionate battles immediately came to mind.

However, this is just speculation, and Lance's identity cannot be determined solely based on his surname.

"Ah, that's right!"

Mentioning this, Lance's face instantly darkened, and he pointed to the wound on his head, saying, "I almost didn't make it back!"

Lance then told Anno about his experience.

Lance's mercenary group has about twenty people.

This morning I found a monster's stronghold outside.

Upon investigation, it was found that there were dozens of third-tier monsters inside.

Because Lance himself is a fourth-tier combatant, and his subordinates are all third-tier.

So he decided to take action against this monster stronghold.

"We were planning to finish this quickly, but we just happened to run into a passing demon army."

There were only ten people.

But they're all Tier 4!

"Sigh, I'm the only one from the entire mercenary group who escaped; the rest of them are all dead."

Anno could hear the sadness in Lance's voice.

My condolences!

Anno could only offer words of comfort from the sidelines.

Lance patted his cheeks, let out a heavy sigh, and then asked, "Ann, did you encounter the Demon King's army?"

Anno nodded and said, "We encountered them, a total of fifty people, all at the fourth rank! But I spotted them beforehand and hid, so there was no battle!"

"You're really lucky!"

Lance thought Anno wouldn't exaggerate, and praised his luck.

Fifty fourth-order units, once discovered, are absolutely doomed.

"By the way, have you successfully broken through in all these days?" Lance stared at Anno and looked him over.

When Lance asked this question, the person in front of Anno had just finished exchanging their currency.

The exchange record clerk, seated behind his desk, said to Anno, "Hello, please show me the tokens for the monsters you hunted!"

boom!

Anno took off the large bag from his back and placed it on the table.

The recorder opened his backpack and saw hundreds of monster parts such as ears, teeth, tails, and horns.

These are some of the more important parts of a monster's body.

To remove it, a life-or-death battle will definitely occur.

Moreover, some parts are valuable in themselves and can be used to refine potions or craft equipment.

This is why the exchange office gives out rewards, and the prices are higher than what merchants usually pay when they buy goods.

Unfortunately, the rewards for parts from many low-level monsters are not much.

Most of what Anno showed up were second-tier.

The reward for a hundred monsters would only be a thousand gold coins—Anno planned to sell the remaining monster parts in other cities.

Although the price would be lower, they didn't know that Anno had killed them all in a short period of time, so naturally it wouldn't attract attention.

The fourth-tier lizardman chieftain that Anno killed could be identified as a mid-tier lizardman by the ring-shaped feature inside his tail.

Bounty: 1700 gold coins!

Besides Asar and the lizardman chieftain, Anno had seven fourth-tier summons, of which Anno took out two.

Their possessions are all parts that can prove their mid-level status.

The bounty for three Tier 4 monster parts is 5000 gold coins.

In other words, Anno received a bounty of over six thousand gold coins.

This is even with Anno keeping a low profile.

However, it still stunned some of the professionals at the exchange counter.

Many people know that Anno was only at Tier 3 before.

Even if I successfully break through to the fourth rank on this trip, I can't just kill three fourth-rank monsters directly!

I need to come back and learn fourth-tier skills to improve my combat power!

Not to mention that each fourth-tier monster has at least dozens or hundreds of subordinates by its side.

This is something a professional who has just entered the fourth tier cannot do.

It requires the cooperation of many people.

Anno's team consisted of only him, a human, a succubus, and a wolf.

"Anno, how...how did you kill so many fourth-tier monsters?"