I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

"What...just happened here?"

At the foot of the sacred mountain, Anno saw the dwarf corpses lying on the ground, and his expression changed drastically.

Instructing Sasser to be vigilant, Anno began examining the bodies.

Amidst a pile of corpses, Anno discovered a dwarf soldier who had been cut in half at the waist, yet his health points had not yet reached zero.

Next to the latter is a magic cylinder that has been cut in half.

When the dwarf soldier saw Anno approaching, his cloudy eyes suddenly cleared.

"Temp...traitor...Lucius...is...dead! Traitor...Temp..."

Anno only heard a few words before the dwarf soldier who had been cut in half at the waist had his health reduced to zero, staring blankly without making a sound.

Unlike dwarves and monsters, Anno cannot absorb their souls for sacrifice.

"Lucius is dead?"

Anno looked incredulous.

He looked around and found that the equipment worn by the headless corpse looked familiar.

This should be Lucius's body, except his head is missing.

Anno and Lucius had just met two minutes ago.

After the signal flare was raised on the Holy Mountain, Lucius arrived a little faster.

But Anno never expected that a seventh-level expert would die in such a short time.

The only way to achieve this level of skill is to be ambushed by another seventh-tier expert.

This proves that the information Anno just heard was correct.

"Temp, I remember this dwarf."

Anno recalled the time when he first discovered Theodore the Feathered Demon, when Owen arrived at the scene with several high-ranking dwarves.

Temple was one of them.

At this time, Anno was unaware that Temple's responsibility was to oversee the defense of Sagunto; otherwise, he could have deduced more information.

Anno stood up from beside the dwarf's corpse, which was now only half-dead, and prepared to tell Lord Orn this information.

A high-ranking traitor poses a great threat to Sagunto.

However, just as Anno was about to leave, a white figure quickly approached.

"Anno?"

Camilla's eyes were filled with confusion when she saw Anno among the group of dwarf soldiers.

She didn't suspect that Anno had killed the soldiers.

Instead, they wondered what kind of enemy the dwarf soldiers had encountered that caused the entire team to be wiped out.

Judging from their equipment, this group of dwarves has several Tier 6 captains.

When Anno saw Camilla, he immediately looked at her with a wary gaze.

The other party is also a Swift Walker, and may very well be connected to the turmoil in Sagunto tonight.

But then I thought, Camilla is the goddess of priests, and the possibility of her colluding with the demons is extremely low.

"There are indeed quite a few monsters hidden within the city."

Camilla didn't notice the change in Anno's eyes, and instead told Anno about the situation she had encountered with a serious expression.

"I found a hidden stronghold of the demons in the outer area. They slaughtered many dwarves for blood sacrifice."

Although I interrupted the blood sacrifice ritual, there are likely still lurking demons within the city preparing for another blood sacrifice.

"Blood sacrifice!"

Although Camilla didn't go into details, Anno could already imagine the scene of dismembered bodies.

"Sagontor is in serious trouble; there are traitors among the high dwarves."

Anno shared the information he had gathered, then said to Camilla, "We need to inform Lord Owen of this news."

"Traitors! If there are traitors among the dwarves, it could explain why so many demons have infiltrated the city."

With inside help and outside cooperation, it's not impossible for a group of sixth-tier monsters to infiltrate Sagunto silently.

Anno and Camilla ignored the signal flares rising around them and headed straight for the city lord's mansion.

At this moment, on the sacred mountain, Temple was holding the pointer disc and rapidly approaching the exact location of the seal.

Following the pointer's directions, Temple quickly discovered that the seal was not on the surface of the sacred mountain, but inside the mountain itself.

"If we damage the mountain, the noise will be too great, and it will definitely be discovered."

Once discovered, Temple will definitely be besieged by high-ranking officers who will rush over.

Even so, Temple did not hesitate to gather magic power into his axe, preparing to use a seventh-tier combat skill to split the sacred mountain.

But just as he was about to make his move, a chilling voice suddenly came from behind him.

"What do you want to do?"

Temple glanced back and saw a stranger, but one that was already etched in his mind.

"How could this be... the God Hunter!"

......

"Anno, is something the matter?"

When they were still some distance from the city lord's mansion, Anno and his party were discovered by Mandel.

"Lord Mandel, do you know Temple?"

Anno did not suspect that Mandel was also a traitor.

After all, when the two of them were tracking Finn, Mandel didn't make a move against Anno.

If they were enemies, Mandel would have ambushed Anno back then.

"Temp, what do you want with him?" Mandel asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Lord Lucius is dead. I learned from the dying dwarf soldiers that it was Temple who did it!"

"What?"

Mandel was taken aback.

But then he remembered that a few minutes earlier, Temple, who was in charge of guarding the city lord's mansion area, had suddenly said that he was going to see what had happened in the direction where the magic cylinder was used.

Mandel didn't think much of it.

"Temp just went in the direction of Mount Saint."

"really!"

Anno and Camilla exchanged a glance, then said to Lord Mandel, "We wish to see Lord Orn."

"Follow me!"

Mandel also realized that things were starting to spiral out of control.

After meeting Lord Owen in the conference hall, Anno recounted Temple's betrayal, while Amira spoke of the blood sacrifice array within the city.

"Temp was in charge of Sagunto's defenses. If he betrayed us, then many things that seem illogical suddenly make sense!"

Lord Owen lowered his head, his face so gloomy it seemed as if water was about to drip from it.

He sent his personal guards to relay the information that Temple was a traitor to the other high-ranking generals in the city, then said to Anno, "Anno, do you know where Temple is now?"

Anno shook his head.

When he arrived at the foot of the sacred mountain, he only saw a ground littered with the corpses of dwarves.

Upon hearing this, Owen lowered his head and pondered for a while.

Since Temple is a traitor, his exposure of his identity at this time likely indicates that he has already achieved his goal.

The purpose of these demons is clearly to seal Sagunto.

Not long after the Feathered Demon Clan was exposed, a dwarven god hunter approached Owen and told him that there was a very terrifying magical fluctuation outside the city, which was suspected to be the Demon King.

The hunter was about to leave the city to lure the Demon King away, and before leaving, he notified Owen to be aware of any unusual activity within the city.

"Currently, only two God Hunters know the exact location of the seal; even I don't know where it is. If Temple does discover the seal, the other God Hunter remaining in the city will also deal with him. The problem now is the blood sacrifice within the city!"

When Owen thought of the blood sacrifice, he felt a strong sense of unease.