I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

These are the thoughts of several regimental commanders.

However, Anno's next words made the others' faces darken.

"Everyone's here, saving me the trouble of visiting each family individually! I know you're all sensible people, so I'll just get straight to the point."

Anno leaned back in his chair, looking at the gloomy faces of the crowd with a serious expression, and said, "This time the guild was disrupted. There were not many people involved, but during the [Number One in the World] competition, you all did some dirty tricks behind the scenes."

Each of you will compensate the guild with one million gold coins, and that will be the end of it.

However, if you continue to oppose the Adventurers' Guild in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless!

I know that your mercenary groups are all mid-level elites.

But believe me, with just a few hundred of you, I won't even need to lift a finger!"

As soon as Anno finished speaking, the thirty sixth-tier undead in the hall simultaneously summoned their shadows.

In an instant, the terrifying magic of sixty sixth-order undead attacked.

The eyes of the regimental commanders were filled with fear.

Sixty sixth-order units!

What does this mean?

The combined number of Tier 6 mercenaries from the lower five families and the upper five families is roughly this many.

"What the hell is a Summoner? How can there be people among humans who have such a profession?"

Ward, the leader of the Red Headscarf Mercenary Group, was the first to break down, his lips trembling as he spoke.

In his mind, necromancers and liches were the most disgusting monsters, capable of creating large numbers of skeletons, zombies, or undead knights to fight.

However, while the number of skeletons produced is large, their strength is weak; the undead knights are very strong, but their numbers are at most three or five.

But Anno, being a summoner, actually revealed sixty Tier 6 summons!

Even he, the guild leader, was only level 31, while all the undead here were level 32.

If Anno wanted to wipe out the Red Turban Mercenary Group, it would be a piece of cake.

"Please rest assured, Guild Master Anno. The one million gold coins are well-deserved for any inconvenience caused to the guild. From now on, the Blazing Mercenary Group will be the adventurers' best partner!"

Daisy tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and gave Anno a flirty wink.

"That woman!"

The other team leaders were quite displeased with Daisy's underhanded actions.

We all agreed to work together to deal with the Adventurers' Guild.

Now that Anno has revealed his strength, he has immediately changed his attitude.

How can this be allowed?

What happened to our promise to unite and boycott the guild?

Anno is very strong, but if everyone joins together, they can gather two or three thousand mid-level professionals, and the number of sixth-level professionals can reach more than a dozen.

Would he really start a war with us and cause a lose-lose situation?

"Our Beasts Mercenary Group apologizes for our past actions and will offer one million gold coins in full. We hope Guild Master Anno will forgive us!"

Vic walked up to Anno with an expression that said, "I regret dealing with the Adventurers' Guild before, and now I know I was wrong."

Anno brought up the mercenary group's disgraceful act during the competition—disregarding the rules and killing their opponents—to show that he was ready to settle scores.

If they fall out with Anno over a million gold coins, who in the mercenary group will dare to leave the city in the future?

We must face attacks from sixty sixth-tier undead at any moment!

Would anyone stay in a mercenary group like that?

"From today onwards, Ghost Hand will treat every adventurer with courtesy. One million gold coins can be delivered tomorrow."

Tyronn stepped forward, not to be outdone.

Seeing this, Blaise and Ward promised Anno that they would no longer provoke adventurers, and that the one million in compensation would be delivered within two days.

Although they could fight Anno if they united, there was already a competitive relationship between the mercenary groups.

If it weren't for the emergence of the Adventurers' Guild, they would never have formed an alliance.

Moreover, what would it prove if they combined the strength of several mercenary groups to deal with Anno alone, even if they won?

Moreover, although Anno's mid-tier summons were all killed by the undead bone dragon Chris, his summoning slots were still empty.

Anno's strength is not at its peak right now.

"Very good, pleasant conversation!"

Anno happily shook hands with the group leaders.

The Draip Mercenary Group's attack on the guild provided Anno with an excuse to attack the Royal City Mercenary Group.

Anno, who rose to rank six during the Battle of the Gazelle River, is preparing to expand the Adventurers' Guild to other countries.

Before that, it is essential to demonstrate absolute strength and subdue the mercenaries of the Kingdom of Nigar, in order to prevent problems from arising in the main base during expansion.

Even if the mercenary group didn't attack the guild, Anno was already prepared to secretly sow discord between the two sides upon his return.

After all, in Anno's current view, the mercenary group is no longer in a position to negotiate with the adventurers' guild based on its strength.

After shaking hands with several commanders who wore smiles but whose thoughts were unclear, Anno said to them, "By the way, I remember you also sent troops to Worenger before. Although Worenger has been defended, the army has suffered heavy losses, and the Dawn Legion has lost nearly 80% due to a period of lack of command."

The remaining thousand or so men are still in Warrengle; after all, they are nominally now part of the army. If you have any ideas, please ask His Highness Simmons to call your men back.

Anyway, when the adventurers left, I saw they all had envious expressions on their faces.

Anno's words caused a momentary lapse in everyone's minds.

"President Anno, you just said that Warrengel held on?"

A slightly unnatural smile appeared on Vic's face as he asked, "But I heard from Prince Simmons and my men that the undead legion attacked fiercely, capturing the city walls equipped with defensive weapons in a short time using special methods. Then, they used war weapons within Worengle that were ineffective even with seventh-tier holy light magic, and the Worengle defenders were no match for them and have already fallen?"

"Yes, that's what my subordinates said too!"

Tyron looked at Anno's smile and his heart skipped a beat.

Was it all a lie?

But would someone really spread rumors about something as important as whether a border fortress had fallen?

"As you all think, Prince Simmons deceived everyone and withdrew prematurely when the war was at a disadvantage."

However, Prince Tester has now returned, bringing news that Worengle has not fallen!

After Anno finished speaking, he summoned back all the spirits in the hall and then turned and went upstairs.

"Commanders, please!"

The wolf girl, who had been hiding behind the front desk watching Anno confront the other leaders, stepped out at the opportune moment and waved for the guests to leave.

Tyron and the others had long lost the will to stay there and left the guild with mixed feelings.

"Have you guys finished copying the mission sheets?" Wolf Girl looked at the mercenaries by the table.

The group nodded repeatedly, saying, "We've finished copying it all. Please take a look!"

Although the group was stronger than Wolf Girl, they still kept their heads down and smiled ingratiatingly.

Simply because the other party is a member of the Adventurers' Guild.

The leader of the Adventurers' Guild is someone that none of the top ten mercenary groups dare to mess with.

"not bad!"

Wolf Girl looked at the neat handwriting and nodded in satisfaction.

She then looked at Liz and asked what to do with the detained mercenaries.

"Let them get lost. Their leader has already prepared 20 million gold coins in compensation, so we won't bully these small fry."

"Thank you so much!"

The underlings quickly thanked them and then rushed out of the guild hall.

Outside the door, the onlookers who had been waiting to hear what was happening inside were shocked when Omar was carried out by his subordinates.

Five level 6 individuals went in, including Omar, who was only level 35. They didn't make a sound inside and were carried out in the blink of an eye.

The remaining five guild leaders arrived, and everyone expected the adventurers outside the door to try and stop them.

But I didn't expect it to be put in directly.

After staying inside for a while, they all came out with gloomy faces and left without saying a word, leading their men away.

This disappointed some well-meaning people.

They were even planning to watch the two sides cause trouble!

But this also made everyone incredibly curious about what happened in those few minutes in the hall.

At that very moment, the dozens of Draber mercenaries who had been detained earlier escaped.

The conversation between President Anno and several guild leaders then spread throughout the royal city.