I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

"Oh?"

Laura became interested upon hearing this and gestured for Anno to continue.

"Every spring, monster activity increases dramatically. They frequently attack villages and towns surrounding Val'kam City!"

Anno's tone suddenly turned serious. He looked at Laura and asked, "Miss Laura, don't you think Valkam City is a bit crowded right now?"

"What do you mean?" Laura frowned slightly.

Walcham's development had been very smooth, entirely thanks to her father, Viscount Renault.

Now that Anno was criticizing Valkam, Laura was naturally displeased.

Anno realized that Laura had misunderstood him, and quickly explained.

Please don't misunderstand, I didn't mean anything by it.

As far as I know, Warkam was originally a border city of 200,000 people, but now it has 300,000 inhabitants.

The extra 100,000 were almost all people who escaped from the surrounding villages and towns that were attacked by monsters.

Over the years, the number of villages and towns around Varkam has been decreasing.

Now, there are fewer than forty villages and towns left in the southern part of the kingdom!

What Anno was talking about was all the intelligence he had gathered in the city over the past two days.

On the surface, Walkam is prosperous, with streets full of pedestrians.

But the truth is, Walkam's population is already close to exceeding the threshold!

The extra people should have lived in the surrounding villages and towns.

However, these villages and towns have now been reduced to ruins due to the monsters' attacks.

The reason for this is simply that the forces within the city of Valcalm were insufficient to protect the surrounding towns, which allowed these tragedies to continue to occur.

More and more villages and towns are being destroyed, but the number of monsters doesn't seem to be decreasing at all.

"so what?"

Laura's beautiful brows furrowed, not understanding Anno's meaning.

"I think the reason the monsters are so rampant is because we've always been on the defensive, and we've basically never taken the initiative to attack!"

Anno's voice suddenly rose as he stood up, pointing outside, and said, "If we let the Val'kam's professionals leave the city and actively clear out the monsters, the safety of the surrounding villages and towns will naturally increase!"

Laura thought Anno would offer some unique insights, but it turned out to be all nonsense.

If Val'kam's professionals had taken the initiative, would her father have waited until now?

"Mr. Anno, you came here to seek cooperation with my father just to say this?"

If Anno nods, it means the other party is nothing special.

But Anno shook his head!

"No, no, no, Miss Laura."

The Viscount is a man who can govern a city of 300,000 people in an orderly manner; he must have thought about this kind of problem.

However, for some reason, this method simply couldn't be implemented!

Anno squinted at Laura and whispered three words.

"Mercenary group!"

According to Anno's investigation, apart from a very few mercenary groups that sided with Viscount Renault, the rest of the mercenary groups had already formed an alliance.

In order to obtain higher bounties, they deliberately refused to accept the monsters offered by the viscount, leading to a series of tragic events.

Every spring, they would love for the monsters to cause more trouble so they could get more bounties.

It's impossible to expect people like that to leave Walkam on their own initiative.

Laura was clever and quick-witted from a young age, and after the age of fifteen, she began to help Viscount Renault handle affairs within the city.

Viscount Renault also intended to groom Laura, his only heir.

Now eighteen years old, Laura has actually taken over many things in the city.

Therefore, she was fully aware of the mercenary groups' actions and thoughts.

A glint flashed in her eyes when she heard Anno say the words "mercenary group".

"Mercenary groups are only for bounty hunters, and they are not under my father's jurisdiction unless monsters attack the city."

The city has relatively few guards, and they are also responsible for protecting the city and villages; they cannot possibly go out to hunt monsters!

After Laura explained the reason, her eyes held a questioning look.

"What do you think we should do?"

"I checked, and based on a rough calculation using the stamps issued to each profession, the total number of professionals in the Valcalm City Mercenary Group exceeds two thousand five hundred."

In addition to the 1,000 guards from the Chamber of Commerce who travel between various cities and the more than 700 guards stationed in the city and surrounding villages and towns, there are nearly 1,000 professionals in the city!

Of these thousands of people, 90% are professionals at levels 0-5, but there are also strong individuals like Mark.

These people can be put to good use!

Laura was surprised that Anno had such a clear understanding of the number of professionals in the city.

But she still didn't know what use these second-rate professionals, who were either filtered out by mercenary groups and chambers of commerce or were eccentric and solitary, could be.

"I know that these people are all low-talented individuals."

Once they are eliminated, they lack sufficient resources, essentially cutting off any possibility of further advancement.

However, while talent is important, hard work and sweat are equally important.

Who can guarantee that among these thousands of people, there won't be any strong individuals?

But now, unable to join mercenary groups or merchant guilds, they have no commissions or money to advance, and can only do the same jobs as ordinary people in the city.

This is a huge waste!

Moreover, every resident in the city can choose to become a professional.

But because of the existence of these thousands of people, they felt that even if they worked hard to become professionals, they might still end up as ordinary people.

By then, the 5 silver coins spent on learning basic skills will be gone forever.

With this kind of thinking, the residents of the city will be less willing to become professionals.

I think this is also why, out of 300,000 people, there are only 5,000 professionals!

Even if you're right, there are some who have been overlooked among them.

But we cannot, and do not have the capacity, to cultivate everyone, just for a few who might be overlooked!

Laura thought Anno made sense, but changing the status quo was basically impossible.

The power of monsters goes without saying.

Most of the professionals who were left out were only at level 2 or 3.

Without the guidance of advanced professionals, they simply lack the ability to hunt monsters on their own.

The Viscount was even less likely to entrust the task to them—doing so would be sending these people to their deaths.

Anno's lips curled into a wild smile.

After all that talk and buildup, we've finally brought the topic to this point.

"I didn't say that Your Excellency should train them, but I have a way to let them train themselves! Once they've grown up, they can completely relieve Your Excellency's worries!"

Laura's eyes lit up, and she quickly asked, "What method? Tell me quickly!"

"This method will take some time to show results, and it also requires the Viscount's support..."

Anno chuckled and began discussing with Laura.

The solution, of course, is to establish an Adventurers' Guild, allowing professionals in the city to register as adventurers and then take on quests to earn money.

The missions here are different from the large-scale missions that mercenary groups take on.

The Adventurers' Guild starts with small tasks to give lower-level adventurers opportunities to develop.

These tasks would require the assistance of Viscount Renault.

This is also what Anno meant by "the Viscount's support".