I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Sylvia's companion, Ocasio, looked at the professional at the door and asked, "Where did you hear that?"

"One member of the attacked mercenary group escaped but collapsed upon reaching the town gates. The town's soldiers took him to the square, where a priest treated his wounds. Upon waking, he recounted his mercenary group's encounter with the dragon!"

After hearing his explanation, most of the guild members sat back down.

"Two hours? That's a long time! The dragon could have flown off somewhere long ago!"

"The dragon is still attacking humans, which basically confirms that the Adventurers' Guild Master's report of capturing a dragon is false information! Unless the Adventurers' Guild Master wants to be wanted by the kingdom!"

"The Adventurers' Guild leader is just a low-level professional. What makes him so special that the Holy Church would go to such lengths to find him?"

"Unless you find Anno and then ask him! Hahaha..."

If Anno truly instructed the dragon to do it, even if Anno is the guild leader of the Adventurers' Guild, he will still be held accountable.

It's one thing to kill someone without cause, but to leave someone alive and then have it reported.

If Anno dares to appear with a dragon after that, his crime will be confirmed!

The laws of the kingdom are not just for show.

Of course, no one thought Anno, who could found an adventurers' guild and had a bounty of 100 million gold coins offered for his whereabouts, was a fool.

So stupid as to kill someone and then leave them alive.

Therefore, people have reason to believe that the dragon and Anno are not related.

Many mid-level professionals already had this assumption in mind.

Now we simply have more compelling evidence.

"To be honest, I've always felt that searching like this is too inefficient. The Aier Mountains are so vast, how easy is it to find a dragon? And even if we happen to find one, if we can't restrict its flight ability, it'll all be for nothing once the dragon flies away."

"Unless those fifth or sixth-tier individuals encounter it, they definitely have a way to shoot the dragon down!"

"But if they encounter it, the treasure on the dragon will be out of our reach! Even though it's only a fourth-tier dragon, it's still a dragon. Its entire body is a treasure trove!"

"Let's take a chance. If I can hunt down just one dragon, I can live the rest of my life without doing anything else!"

"Heh, what do you take the Demon King's army for? Haven't you heard that the Demon King's army is preparing to attack the northern border of the kingdom?"

"Heh, I'm not from the Kingdom of Nigar. I'm from the Roland Empire. With the Sword Saint here, we're not afraid even if the Demon King's army comes!"

"..."

Hearing the conversation around him, Anno turned to Grin and asked, "Lord Grin, the Demon King's army is preparing to attack the Kingdom of Nigal this time. Will the elves come to our aid?"

"The elves have been fighting the Demon King's army all along!"

Green explained, "The Demon King has always wanted to conquer the Elf Forest, and his attacks on it have never stopped. Although there haven't been any major wars in recent years, small-scale battles have never ceased."

On the surface, the Demon King's army is gathering forces in the northern border of Nigar, but who knows what the Demon King is plotting?

War is never one-sided.

An alliance of humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs battles the demon king's army.

A single hair can affect the whole situation!

Once a real war begins, no race can remain uninvolved.

However, a total war is not so easy to start.

It has only been ten years since the last time.

Even the Demon King's army needs to recuperate and rest.

I estimate that the Demon King's army will not deploy too many troops this time.

Perhaps it was just for training purposes.

Upon hearing this, Anuo remained silent.

Green's meaning is quite clear.

The Elf Forest has always faced the threat of the Demon King's army.

If the Demon King's army didn't go all out in this war.

The Elf Forest might only send a few powerful individuals as a symbolic gesture to provide support.

However, if the Demon King's army is truly preparing for a full-scale invasion of the Kingdom of Nigal, then the Elf Forest will definitely send a large army to support them or divert the Demon King's forces elsewhere.

In short, the number of members in the alliance cannot be reduced!

However, the Demon King's army made its move precisely during the time when Philomena was exposed.

Anno felt that if this war broke out, it was very likely to be related to Philomena.

The war is certainly not just a training exercise, as Greene suggests.

Anno chatted with Phil and Green for a while longer.

After finishing their meal, the group said their goodbyes.

Anno did not stay in the town of Gruul, but returned to the Forbidden Forest to find a secluded place to begin his cultivation.

Anno sent out summoned creatures to keep watch around the area, and then summoned Philomena.

"What a stupid thing to do. After studying under me, the God of Summoning, for so many days, you still haven't mastered a single skill."

"Your comprehension is really poor. Besides being slightly better than the slimes you see everywhere on the grasslands, what else can you do?"

As soon as they came out, Philomena started calling Anno stupid.

Upon hearing this, Anuo's forehead creased with a frown, but in the end, he resigned himself to his fate!

"Last time, I used the coordinates you gave me to enter the underworld and find the existence of the mist."

"If it weren't for the few evil spirits present, I would have already marked the mist with my soul and learned this skill!"

【Mist Summoning】is a skill that summons the mists of the underworld to your side, disrupting the enemy's vision.

This requires Anno's soul to enter the underworld, find the mist, and mark it with its own unique symbol.

Having experienced his soul (consciousness) entering the divine realm, Anno easily mastered the ability to "leave his body".

However, even with Philomena providing the coordinates, it still took Anno a considerable amount of time to sense the existence of the Underworld.

This underworld is different from the underworld where the demon spirits reside.

The latter can be seen as the name of the kingdom that Youpo established in the Demon Realm.

The former is where the souls of living beings go after they die, and its plane level is the same as that of the Demon Realm and Ungomulos.

According to Philomena, comprehending the underworld is a unique training method for summoners.

However, there are also dangers in the cultivation process.

If a soul encounters a powerful evil spirit while entering the underworld, it may be eaten.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up and mark that patch of mist!"

Philomena sat on a rock, dangling her legs and looking up at the moonlight.

Anno sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

After about three minutes, Anno's soul left his body, and a vortex appeared in front of him.

Once the soul enters, it vanishes instantly.

The Underworld!

An unnamed place.

The scorched earth was riddled with cracks, from which unidentified gases occasionally spewed out.

Anno's soul cautiously looked left and right, then walked towards a patch of black mist not far away.

This is the place where Anno's soul returned last time.

The evil spirit we encountered earlier seems to have left!

Click!

Not long after Anno's soul ran towards the black mist, a skeletal hand suddenly emerged from the ground where he had been standing.