I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

After Anno left, a group of veteran Tier 6 mercenaries from the Purple Gold Flower Mercenary Group gathered in the conference hall, looking at Stanbeck.

"Sigh, more than ten years have passed. We've gotten this old without even realizing it."

Steinbeck suddenly sat down in a chair, looking somewhat weary, and said to everyone, "There's something I need to tell you all. I'm actually a member of the Duke of England's family in the Roland Empire..."

"For the sake of our brothers' future, let's do as Anno says and investigate the adventurers' deaths. We can't let Anno use this as leverage to label all the brothers in the mercenary group as spies. I'm sorry about this."

The group of sixth-tier mercenaries exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes filled with reluctance. "Captain, we know what to do!"

......

The Poison Gold Mercenary Group's headquarters are far from the Purple Gold Flower.

When Anno arrived, his leader and an old man were already standing at the door to greet him.

It was obvious that when Anno left the Adventurers' Guild and headed to the Purple Flower Mercenary Group, many factions sent people to follow him.

After Anno left the Purple Gold Flower, the scouts of the Poison Gold Mercenary Group rushed over and immediately guessed that Anno was looking for the Poison Gold Mercenary Group. One of the scouts went back ahead to inform the leader.

The leader of the Poison Gold Guild was a lean man with green hair, and he was only at the fifth rank.

However, the real person in charge of the group was the old man next to him, who was also the father of the lean man.

Lucas, a level 35 rogue.

Meeting with Anno is something Lucas will definitely have to do himself.

His son was just standing on the left.

Standing to Lucas's right was a woman whom Anno seemed to recognize.

After thinking for a while, Anno remembered that this thief named Raya had participated in the World's Number One Professional Tournament and even achieved a top-ten ranking in the fourth-tier group.

The matches involve using various expensive poisons to incapacitate opponents, which is extremely extravagant.

However, during the final battle, Lucas was worried that his beloved granddaughter might get injured while fighting the undead, so he sent someone to bring Raya back to the capital.

Therefore, Raya did not achieve any results in the final.

"President Anno, welcome to the Poison Gold Mercenary Group."

Lucas greeted Anno with his standard smile.

Although Lucas had seen Anno when he watched Raya's match, he didn't consider Anno to be on the same level at the time.

Now, he was somewhat worried about Anno's motives for contacting him.

Anuo came to him after she emerged from the purple-gold flower.

Lucas had no time to find out what Anno and Steinbeck had discussed.

"Commander Lucas is very enthusiastic, but I still have a lot of things to do, so I won't go in. I'll just say what I need to say."

Anno didn't waste any words and directly stated that he wanted the Poison Gold Mercenary Group to hand over the mercenaries involved in killing the adventurers, or to find out who was behind it.

The duration is also three days.

Despite Lucas's repeated assurances that he and his subordinates had never targeted the Adventurers' Guild, Anno bluntly stated that he harbored serious suspicions about the Poison Gold Mercenary Group.

After all, most of the members of the Poison Gold Mercenary Group are thieves.

They are very skilled at assassination.

However, they are also very good at investigations—which is their main business.

After watching Anno leave, Lucas walked back to the camp with a gloomy face.

"Dad, should we do as he says?"

Lucas's son, Kuras, frowned and said, "Could this be a tactic he's using to force mercenary groups to join the Adventurers' Guild?"

"Is there even a question? Of course, it's a given."

Lucas rubbed his temples and said, "However, it's true that mercenaries target adventurers."

This happened before the Lunar New Year. At that time, many mid-level adventurers in the guild accepted a special commission from Acting Guild Master Linda to investigate the deaths of adventurers.

"Weren't our mercenary group members who registered as adventurers also commissioned?"

Kuras nodded and said, "That's true. It seems this has given Anno an excuse."

Raya, who was listening to his father and grandfather's conversation, fiddled with the dagger in his hand and said, "Then why didn't you tell Anno about this earlier?"

Furthermore, why don't we mercenaries just join a guild?

It's just a name change; adventurer groups and mercenary groups are pretty much the same.

"What do you know, you little girl!"

Kuras glared at Raya.

The latter snorted and got up to leave.

After Raya left, Lucas sighed and said, "Although we found out some information, it involves the power struggle between Simmons and Tester, so we can't continue to follow up."

But judging from Anno's current momentum, if we don't take action, they might really attack us.

Once we become adventurers, we will be subject to the control of the guild to some extent.

Moreover, I worry that even if we provide the intelligence, Anno won't let us go.

Failure to report known information can also be used as a pretext for taking action.

Kuras's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Should we... ask someone higher up for help?"

Lucas thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "There should be enough time. Go find the envoy immediately and ask for instructions."

"OK!"

After finishing his speech, Kuras immediately left the camp.

......

Next.

Anno also went to see Beast, Ghost Hand, Draber, Valon, Black Python, Blazing Flame, and Red Headband. In addition to the two he had visited before, Anno visited all of the former top ten, except for the Miracle Flower that had become an adventurer's group.

Moreover, because Anno did not try to hide it, everyone who was paying attention to this matter now knew that Anno was investigating the case of the adventurers who died years ago.

Most people, including adventurers, didn't know about this before.

Now that the news has spread, many people believe that since Anno has already started taking action, he must have confirmed that the people making the move are mercenaries.

My opinion of mercenaries has dropped even further.

Adventurers' attitude towards mercenaries immediately turned wary.

Mercenaries walking down the street would notice that adventurers were all eyeing them.

very horrible!

When Anno came to their door, the group leader, including Omar, who was the mastermind behind the murder of the adventurers, immediately thought that he had been exposed.

Although I eventually realized that I had been worrying too much.

But the conditions Anno mentioned also made them very uneasy.

Unsurprisingly, Anno and all the mercenary groups said the same thing.

In other words, those who weren't involved are now investigating this matter.

Other mercenary groups are one thing, but the Poison Gold Mercenary Group might actually be able to find something out.

So, only one day later, several mercenary group leaders arrived at Simmons' manor.

With a mournful face, Vic of the Beasts cried out to Simmons, who was eating and drinking, "Your Highness, you must do us justice!"

"Now that Anno is threatening all mercenary groups to investigate this matter, we might be found out. Knowing Anno's personality, he will definitely retaliate against us."

Omar of Draup was also taken aback by Anno's decisive actions, and his reattached arm began to ache again.

"Your Highness, it's alright if we die, but after we're gone, you won't have anyone to run errands for you! There's something we need to do, we don't even have a dog to serve us."

In order to save his life, Tyrion of the Ghost Hand directly declared his loyalty.

Simmons was also involved in this matter.

But no matter how powerful Anno is, he can't harm the kingdom's prince, Simmons.

But if Simmons doesn't protect them, Vic and the others could very well die in three days.

After hearing Tyron's words, the other team leaders also realized what was going on.

For their own safety, they all pledged their loyalty to Simmons and declared him their master from that day forward.

Simmons, who had been eating at a leisurely pace, finally turned to look at the group, a smile spreading across his face.

"What are you saying? I was the one who gave you all the orders to take action. Would I abandon you? Stop kneeling. With me here, Anno can't touch you."

Simmons spat out a bone and said disdainfully, "Just a newly promoted seventh-tier cultivator, look at his abilities. Does he really think the seventh-tier cultivators behind me are just for show?"