I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Valkam.

Colorful flags were hanging everywhere in the city, and the streets were bustling with activity.

The bustling crowd stopped at each stall, buying their favorite items.

On the last day of the year 1408 in the Union calendar, the residents of Valkam were enjoying the festive joy.

Compared to previous years, Walkam has changed a lot.

The most direct indicator is the prosperity of the streets.

Nowadays, anyone who becomes an adventurer can generally secure a source of income.

Moreover, because adventurers travel far and wide, they often collect many strange and wonderful things, which attracts many merchants who have heard the news to come here, thus promoting the development of Val'kam.

Nowadays, many people on the streets are dressed in casual clothes.

However, with careful observation, one can see that quite a few people wear adventurer nameplates on their clothes.

It's not just Valkam, it's the same in Glad City.

Now, almost every major city in the Kingdom of Nigar has an Adventurers' Guild, and the number of adventurers has exceeded 200,000.

The high mobility of adventurers promoted communication and development between cities.

This is precisely why lords in various regions allow adventurers' guilds to reside there.

Even within the territories of the nobility, there are adventurers' guilds.

As the current lord of Val'kam, Laura is most aware of the changes in Val'kam.

Val'kam is the birthplace of adventurers, and every day many adventurers from other places travel long distances to visit Val'kam.

"My lord, I'm back from the guild!"

Phoebe walked into Laura's office and said, "Quite a few adventurers from the guild have taken on security work for the festival. Salo is leading the team personally, so we've got enough manpower now."

"It's a rare holiday celebration, thank you so much, President Salo."

Laura tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear and stammered, "Um... President Anno still hasn't returned?"

No!

Phoebe shrugged and said, "Forget about that big devil, Lord Xue and Lord Lu haven't returned either. Don't they know tomorrow is New Year's Day?"

Laura glared at Phoebe and said, "How could you say Anno is the Demon King? Believe me, when he gets back, I'll tell him that!"

"My lord, Lady Laura, I was wrong, please don't!"

Phoebe, as if her most sensitive spot had been hit, immediately ran to Laura and begged for mercy.

"If he finds out, I might die mysteriously while walking, or be poisoned while eating!"

Seeing Phoebe's terrified expression, Laura said irritably, "Anno isn't that bad!"

Boom boom boom!

Scott, the butler outside the door, knocked lightly a few times and said softly, "Lady Laura, the year-end festival is all prepared. You should start preparing now."

"OK!"

Laura stood up from behind her desk and stretched.

The girl's slender curves are on full display.

The girl has grown a lot compared to before.

Growth in every sense...

Steel Fortress.

While the dwarves in Val'kam, thousands of miles away, were celebrating with lanterns and decorations, they were cheering that their midday meal would include meat.

Meanwhile, the dwarven blacksmiths in the various blacksmith shops of Ironforge were extremely busy, with the sounds of hammering and forging never ceasing.

Last night, Lord Owen gave them a large batch of mid-level materials and equipment requirements, and then told them to craft magical equipment as soon as possible.

Upon learning that the equipment was forged for Anno, the dwarven blacksmiths began work on that day, even though Owen had said they didn't need to start work.

"Master, it's snowing again!"

Wearing white fur coats, Liz and Ella built a snowman together in the yard.

However, Anno is closing his eyes to sense the earth element.

Last night, he used all the low-level souls he had accumulated to strengthen the other souls.

In the end, only ninety more Tier 4 summons were added.

It takes three hundred third-tier souls to upgrade a third-tier soul to a fourth-tier soul, which is a rather demanding condition.

However, there's not much use for Anno in keeping these low-level souls.

If you replace them with ninety fourth-tier summons, they would at least qualify as Anno's summons.

Anno currently has 1 Tier 7 summon; 75 Tier 6 summons; 212 Tier 5 summons; and 304 Tier 4 summons.

The remaining 408 seats are all empty.

Anyone below level 33 and at the seventh rank who dares to challenge Anno in a one-on-one fight will be guaranteed to never return!

"Sigh, every time I practice my skills, that's when I feel depressed."

Anno sighed after sensing the snow all morning, even though a thick layer had fallen, that he hadn't sensed anything at all.

"Where exactly are the earth spirits? If I dig a hole in the ground and lie down in it, will the earth element be more concentrated?"

While Anuo was thinking of crooked ways to get things done, Yinmu came running over excitedly.

"President, look what I brought you!"

Yinmu slyly pulled a piece of roasted meat from her backpack and presented it to Anuo like a treasure, saying, "Happy New Year in advance, President! This is what I grilled, it's delicious, eat it while it's hot!"

Anuo took it and smelled it; it did smell quite good. As she tore into it, she asked, "What kind of meat is this?"

Yinmu whispered, "The meat of the Whirlwind Lamb!"

Anno was taken aback by what he heard.

Just to be on the safe side, he still asked, "Isn't this the one I asked you to raise before?"

"It's not Little Flower, it's an adventurer. Yesterday, when he went out to hunt dragon scorpions, his Whirlwind Goat was killed by one. Because I helped him, he gave me a leg of goat."

"Sigh, if it weren't for the fact that dragon scorpion meat is poisonous and inedible, we could have eaten it tonight."

"Oh, I see!"

Anno took a bite.

Really fragrant.

He took out the Qingyue wine that he had packed up and taken away from the Sagunto tavern earlier, and poured a glass for Yinmu as well.

After downing a glass of wine, Anuo immediately put his cultivation troubles to the back of his mind.

Seeing that Yinmu was staring longingly at the wine jar after finishing her drink, Anuo smiled and refilled her jar.

"Let's have a drink today!"

After downing two cups of wine, Anuo felt that Qingyue Wine, which cost 100 gold coins a jar, was indeed potent.

After a few drinks, although she wasn't drunk, Anuo felt her vision was a little blurry.

Looking up at the snowflakes falling in the courtyard, he wondered how Xue Feibai and the others were doing.

"They should all be back in Walkam by now."

Anno poured himself another glass, then raised it to the snowman that Liz, Ella, and Sasser had built, which bore a resemblance to himself, and said, "A toast to everyone!"

Anno froze as soon as he finished speaking.

Snapped!

The bowl full of wine fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"President, why are you being so wasteful!"

Yinmu, who was fond of drinking, looked at the wine on the ground with a regretful expression.

But Anno seemed not to hear, and stood up and walked towards the snowman.

At this moment, in Anno's field of vision, several white dots the size of marbles kept circling around the snowman who was as tall as an adult.

The moment these white dots entered Anno's field of vision, the [Observer] had already displayed the information.

Name: Ice Elf

Race: Elemental Spirit