I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

"Your Excellency, is it really enough for us to simply escort the goods this far?"

Wen Ze watched as the coachman and mercenaries separated the horses and carriages, his mind filled with doubt.

What kind of nonsense is it to leave seven hundred fully loaded trucks here in this desolate wilderness?

Wenze learned about Anno's identity through a previous conversation between Anno, Cass, and Howell.

He never imagined that Anno was actually a nobleman of the Kingdom of Nigar and that he was related to Duke Howell.

The difference in their social status became immediately apparent.

Therefore, Wen Ze did not even receive any payment for this escort mission.

The purpose was to make up for the 'mistake' of taking 500 gold coins from Anno last time.

The mission only required escorting the goods to a mountain ten kilometers away from Zijinlan City, which was not difficult at all.

Anno turned around and smiled, "With so many supplies, it would take forever to transport them normally, and there's also the possibility of encountering monster attacks along the way, so we need to use a fast and safe method to get them there."

"A quick and safe method?"

Wen Ze's eyes widened, and he asked, "Could it be teleportation magic?"

Anno smiled without saying a word.

However, Wenze had already decided that Anno was preparing to use teleportation magic, or a similar ability, to transport these supplies to the royal city.

As for why he would use teleportation magic in such a place, it's probably because Anno didn't want others to know that he had this ability.

As expected, after all the horses and carriages had separated, Anno had Wenze take the coachman back to Zijinlan City.

"Is this telling us to avoid it?"

Wen Ze, who had already guessed this, was not surprised at all.

He then led his bewildered subordinates and coachman, along with the horses, back towards Zijinlan City.

However, after walking for about two or three kilometers, when his view was blocked by the mountains on the side, Wenze's curiosity made him unable to resist turning back to check the situation.

He left behind a few skilled men and sent the rest back to the city.

Wen Ze secretly took a detour to reach the hilltop near where the trucks were parked. Looking down from there, he was surprised to find that all the hundreds of trucks loaded with supplies had disappeared, leaving only an empty valley.

"Hey, hey, hey, am I dreaming? It's only been ten minutes, how did so many supplies disappear?"

The mercenary next to Wen Ze rubbed his eyes, his face full of disbelief.

"Roar~!"

The dragon's roar that echoed through the mountains and forests made Wen Ze and the others' expressions change drastically, and they instantly drew their weapons to look around.

Then they saw a red dragon fly into the air from another mountain and then descend into the valley below.

There are still three people at the location where the red dragon landed.

"Those are the Baron and his two maids."

The hunter in the group used his skill to see Anno's appearance from a great distance and couldn't help but exclaim, "Captain, should we go and save him... wait, that dragon doesn't seem to have any ill intentions towards the Baron."

"We've all seen it, do you need to tell us?"

Wenze watched as the red dragon bent down to let Anuo ride on its back, then flew into the sky and left, his mind filled with many questions.

But no one could answer their questions, so they had no choice but to turn back.

Three more days passed, and the soldiers on duty on the Iron Fortress walls saw a giant dragon approaching in the distance.

As they drew closer, the dwarves realized it was a red dragon.

On the back of the red dragon, there were several particularly familiar figures.

Anno landed in the city intending to find Kim and the others, but unexpectedly saw Lord Owen in the council hall.

After careful questioning, Anno learned that in the past week, the dragon scorpions that had occupied Sagunto had begun to spread to the surrounding areas.

Several cities around Sagunto have already been attacked by the Dragon Scorpion.

Fortunately, the high-ranking dwarves who were urgently sent from the capital and the original high-ranking dwarves of Sagunto were scattered throughout the various cities to assist in the defense.

The fact that the dragon scorpion god has remained in Sagunto is a major reason why many cities have not yet fallen.

Anno had already seen the dragon scorpions spreading when he rushed back.

Nowadays, large numbers of low-level dragon scorpions are scattered across the grasslands.

"The Dragon Scorpion problem is secondary right now; the city's food supplies are exhausted. In another two or three days, everyone will be starving!"

Lord Owen's tone was full of worry.

Although the dwarves of Saguntor had fled to Iron Fortress, each of them had received as little food as possible.

But there were too many refugees and too few supplies in Steel Fortress.

The supplies needed to get to Steel Fortress first had to get past the dragon scorpions that roamed the wilderness.

"In addition, amidst this atmosphere of panic, some cult members have appeared among the refugees in the city at some point."

Although the cult was discovered in time, no one knows if there are still hidden cult members.

"Cultists?"

Anno frowned and asked, "What religion is it?"

"Based on the information obtained during interrogation, it's the Barker cult!"

"Barker, these guys' church is really simple and brutal!"

Anno rubbed his forehead, thinking to himself: "Just now, after the Adrien Cult was dealt with in Purple Gold Orchid City, the Barker Cult appeared in Iron Fortress."

So, will there be Leopoldism and Galakrondism next?

Anno could guess some of the reasons for the emergence of the Barker cult.

It is highly likely that ordinary dwarfs in the current situation are not getting enough to eat or sleep, and some dwarfs may have lost loved ones, so they urgently need faith.

Meanwhile, cultists who were already hiding in the shadows took the opportunity to bewitch ordinary people into joining their religion.

There are definitely cultists among the dwarves of Saguntori; Temp, the seventh-tier dwarf who betrayed Saguntori, was a cultist.

However, once everything is back on track and ordinary people return to normal life, they will naturally not turn to cults.

Those cult members could only hide in the shadows once again.

"Lord Owen, I left this time to find supplies. I brought back about 3,500 tons of supplies, enough to last Steel Fortress for a month. If we use them sparingly, it should be enough for two months."

If 3,500 tons of grain were to last a month, that would mean consuming approximately 116 tons per day, or 232,000 jin of grain.

The grain was distributed among 200,000 dwarves, with each person receiving more than a pound of grain per day.

If you're going to eat this for two months, you'll need to be more frugal.

However, there are not 200,000 dwarves in Iron Keep at present.

Even if the supplies from the Dwarf Kingdom are slow, it's impossible for them to take a month to arrive.

Therefore, some of these supplies can actually be distributed to other dwarf cities.

"Three thousand five hundred tons?"

Lord Owen stared at Anno in shock and asked, "Where did you get so many supplies?"

"I went to the Purple Orchid City of the Roland Empire and bought it from the nobles there at a high price."

"Where? Where are the supplies?"

Lord Owen grabbed Anno's arm, his eyes bloodshot, as if afraid Anno would leave.

He was afraid that Anno would say the supplies were on their way.

Iron Keep now has a few high-ranking dwarves, but they cannot conjure food out of thin air.

"Find me a warehouse!"

Anno originally planned to leave the supplies on the grassland outside Iron Fortress and then have the dwarves send troops to bring them back, so that no one would think he had a huge amount of storage equipment.

However, with dragon scorpions in the wild, Anno had to change his mind.

Inside a warehouse, there were only Anno and Liz and a few others.

"Master, what should we do?"

"Draw a magic circle on the ground, and then send the goods out little by little."

Owen and the others waited anxiously outside the warehouse for more than an hour before the warehouse door finally opened.

Besides Anno, there were four more fully loaded trucks inside.

"Let's get it out of here first!"

Upon seeing the four wagons laden with supplies, Owen immediately ordered the soldiers who had been waiting outside to push the wagons out.

"Anno, there's no need to push yourself too hard. There's no need to send all the supplies over at once."

Owen looked at the magic circle inscriptions on the ground, already misled, and entered Anno's mental "trap".

Seeing Anuo's exhausted appearance, he assumed it was because Anuo had consumed too much energy while transporting supplies.

In reality, this was the result of Anno spending more than an hour working with a magic circle to make it look more convincing.

"It's alright, the main problem is etching the magic array, but it will be easier after that. However, you'll still need to avoid it for now."

"Understood! We'll get out right away, right away!"

Owen jogged out of the warehouse.

Then, less than ten seconds later, the warehouse doors were opened again, and four fully loaded wagons once again came into view of the dwarves.

In this way, Anno tricked the dwarves into using teleportation magic by transporting the goods in batches, gradually sending them all out.

Inside the warehouse, Anno, who was destroying the magic array, rubbed his aching temples and sighed, "It's really hard to be a good person. But with this favor, I think they won't refuse if I ask the dwarves to forge a few sets of high-level magical equipment."