I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Although the dwarves in the border city had no money after this battle.

However, in business, it is not always necessary to use gold coins for settlement.

The dwarves' ability to craft magical equipment can also serve as a form of currency.

Fortunately, Anno currently has high-level materials, specifically Tier 7 Dragon Scorpions.

Even ordinary dwarven blacksmiths cannot forge high-level materials into high-level magical equipment.

This is a good opportunity to craft these materials into equipment.

Seeing Kim and the others leave with worried expressions to make preparations, Anno once again headed to the "nest" in Adelaide.

"Get ready, we need to leave Iron Fortress."

The Anor hadn't even entered the cave yet when the sound reached Adelaide's ears.

The red dragon, who was showing off his gold vault to Ella, quickly lay down and pressed the gold coins under his body.

However, due to the large movement, a gold coin bounced out and rolled to Anno's feet, who had just entered.

"Oops!"

A bead of cold sweat appeared on Adelaide's forehead.

She knew that the "devil" in front of her might find out about her hoarding of gold coins.

To Adelaide's surprise, Anno picked up the gold coins from the ground and tossed them to her, then tossed her a storage ring, saying, "A few thousand gold coins are enough for you? Come on, I'll take you to make big money!"

Ella helped Adelaide put the gold coins into her storage ring, and then fastened the ring to Adelaide's ear.

Nothing is safer than carrying your own treasure with you.

However, Adelaide still prefers the feeling of sleeping on gold coins.

But these are things we'll have to consider later.

Not long after, a loud dragon's roar came from an abandoned mine.

Then a huge roar shot up into the sky from the mine.

The dwarves living nearby were not alarmed.

Because they all knew that the Red Dragon, the leader of the Adventurers' Guild, lived there.

Not only will they not attack dwarves, they will also accept their requests.

Three days later, Anno appeared in Zijinlan City, the central city of Zijinlan Province in the northwest of the Roland Empire.

Two months ago, Anno entered the territory of the Dwarf Kingdom from this city.

As before, Anno left Adelaide and Ella outside the city while he and Liz rode Sassil into the city.

The purpose of this trip to Zijinlan City is to purchase food and daily necessities.

The reason for not going to the Dwarven capital to purchase supplies is twofold: firstly, the journey is longer, and secondly, supplies are harder to buy in the Dwarven capital at this time.

Upon returning to the city, Anno clearly sensed that the atmosphere was somewhat different from before.

The checks on pedestrians at the city gates seem to be more stringent.

People are questioned every now and then.

"Could it be that news of Sagonto's affair has already reached here?"

Although Anno arrived quickly, the method of transmitting intelligence between countries certainly does not rely on manpower.

In the past few days, the Roland Empire must have already learned about Sagunto's situation.

It's not impossible that the Emperor would share this information with Duke Violet, whose territory borders the Dwarf Kingdom.

However, after inquiring with those around her, Anuo learned that the reason for the strict entry checks was that several murders with the same modus operandi had occurred in Zijinlan City in the past week.

The clues to the murder point to a church that suddenly appeared in the city a month ago—now defined as a cult.

The church's followers were called heretics by the Duke of Zijinlan.

Notices offering rewards for information about cult members have been posted all over the city's streets and alleys.

Although a few cult members have been caught, they are all small fry.

Everyone is hiding very well.

The city of Zijinlan has been under martial law for almost a week.

This news is common knowledge in Zijinlan City.

The civilian who answered Anno's question suddenly realized this and looked at Anno with some wariness.

But when he saw the huge silver moon wolf behind Anno, he couldn't help but move away from Anno.

"Cultists?"

Anno frowned and sighed, "It's like one problem after another."

Anno had no interest in dealing with cult members.

This thing can be found in most slightly larger cities.

Cult members lure confused and lost people into joining their cults and spread their cult beliefs.

This group is defined as cult members because they have long lost their humanity.

They committed numerous massacres of their villages in the name of their faith.

If the cult members can defeat those who stand in their way, they will kill you; if they cannot, they will target your family members.

That is why, once signs of cult activity are discovered, lords will try to eliminate them.

In addition, the professionals of the Six Temples usually do their job of purging cultists, so the number of cultists is basically very small.

Some cults even have only a few members.

Most people may never encounter a cult member in their lifetime.

Now that cultists have appeared in Zijinlan City, Duke Zijinlan will certainly not let them go.

A duke's background is unlikely to be too bad.

There are still ways to deal with cult members.

"I just don't know which cult this is."

As Anno pondered, only one person remained in front of him—the same commoner who had just answered his question.

Just as the civilians were preparing to be questioned, an unexpected incident occurred.

"Guards! Guards! I suspect this man is a cult member! He might be a cult member!"

A small, thin man with small eyes behind Anno suddenly pointed at Anno and shouted at the soldiers at the city gate.

When the word "cultist" appeared, the area around Anno suddenly became empty.

The dispersed people all looked at Anno with horrified eyes.

The soldiers at the city gate immediately focused their attention on Anno, and then cautiously approached with their weapons in hand.

Anno glanced back at the thin man who had smeared her and realized that he was just an ordinary person.

But the other party's sudden reporting of his actions was too suspicious.

"Hands up!"

The leading soldier captain had already walked to within three meters of Anno.

He wanted to rush up and seize Anno, but the huge silver moon wolf behind Anno put immense pressure on the soldier captain.

At this point, the soldier captain had begun to doubt what the informant had said.

After all, cultists wouldn't bring such a large monster with them; it would be too conspicuous.

However, the soldier captain dared not be careless until he confirmed Anno's identity.

What if this person in front of you really is a cult member?

Besides the monsters, wasn't he also accompanied by a succubus?

Anno pointed helplessly to the mithril-grade adventurer badge on his chest and explained to the soldier captain, "I don't know if you can understand this badge, but I am an adventurer, not the cultists you're talking about."

If you're looking for cult members, I think the guy who rushed through the city gates while your attention was on me is more suspicious!