I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

As a neighboring city, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor are familiar with Kelai City.

The previous Earl of Wei and the former lord of Xuelong City were the same kind of people.

Since Count Wey's death and Viscount Renault's appointment, the development of Glad City in just a few months has given the residents of the territory a completely new look.

Unfortunately, the previous lord and Viscount Renault were considered opposing forces, and there wasn't much communication between them.

But things are different now; Anno is a lord.

After learning from Hansen that Anno was going to take up his post in Xuelong City, Viscount Renault immediately sent someone to prepare gifts and then entrusted adventurers to deliver them.

Mark, the guild master of Glad City, has received instructions from the Royal City Guild and has set off for Royal City to prepare for the guild master meeting.

Therefore, the gift that Viscount Renault gave to Anno upon his inauguration was personally delivered by Hansen.

Merchants from Glad City also learned that Anno had become the new lord of Xuelong City, and they brought their acquired goods to Xuelong City to trade.

Therefore, when a large caravan of adventurers and merchants from Glad City underwent inspection and entered the city, it immediately attracted the attention of many people.

The main reason for attracting attention was that Hansen brought over a hundred third-tier adventurers to boost his reputation, bringing almost half of the experts from Glad City.

Of course, these adventurers were mainly there to join in the fun.

However, the arrival of these adventurers made the professionals in Xuelong City quite envious.

Because the adventurers from Glad City have far better equipment than these novice adventurers.

However, this also gave these novice adventurers hope for the future. They happily went to the guild to find quests to do, hoping that one day they could be like the adventurers in Glad City.

After entering the city of Selangor, the merchants found places to trade on their own.

Hansen then led the adventurers to deliver the gifts prepared by Viscount Renault to the city lord's mansion.

The six professional mentors who had just left the city lord's mansion immediately stood aside upon seeing a group of menacing adventurers.

Inside the city lord's mansion, Anno heard that Viscount Renault had sent someone to deliver gifts, and he went out to greet them with a smile.

Upon seeing Anno, Hansen, as if presenting a treasure, led the adventurers behind him to Anno.

"Looks like you two did a good job!"

Anno didn't hold back his praise and even chatted with the adventurers Hansen brought over for a while.

After chatting for a while, Hansen told Anno that he had important intelligence that Viscount Renault wanted to give to Anno.

After bringing Hansen into the conference room, Anno frowned and asked, "What intelligence?"

"I don't know either!"

Hansen took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Anno, saying, "But the Viscount said it is related to the previous lord of Xuelong City, and he urged you to keep it in mind."

"Oh?"

Anno took the envelope, peeled off the wax seal bearing Viscount Renault's stamp, and took out the paper to begin reading.

After watching for a while, Anuo's expression grew increasingly serious.

Regarding the execution of Antoine Alcott, the former lord of Selangor, Anno learned from the king that Antoine had severely tarnished the kingdom's image, damaged its interests, and undermined the stability of the six-nation alliance.

The reason was that the soldiers in the royal city who were in charge of investigating the case of the elf slaves in the kingdom had found Antoine and had obtained conclusive evidence.

This case was originally investigated by the Kingdom's guards when Anno saved the elf Phil, in order to give an explanation to the elven embassy in Sodar.

Anno, who was involved in this incident at the time, was only at the third rank and almost died at the hands of a fourth-rank soldier who came to chase Phil.

Anno never expected that after half a year, the investigation would lead to Antoine—and Antoine was not the only nobleman implicated.

However, the intelligence Viscount Renault sent to Antoine indicated that Antoine had done more than that.

Because of the poor relationship between Viscount Renault and Antoine, as well as Gilbert Field, the lord of Sunset Lands, Viscount Renault had planted spies in both Shirelong and Sunset City.

According to Viscount Reynolds' investigation, Gilbert frequently purchased large numbers of slaves.

Every month, hundreds of people are discovered by spies!

The slaves were mostly of orc, half-orc, half-elf, and there were even dwarves and elves among them.

The origins of orcs and half-orcs can also be explained as being from captured monsters.

But buying elves and dwarves as slaves is absolutely illegal!

The key point is that Antoine bought so many slaves not to use them.

Basically, all the slaves sent to Antoine's estate disappeared without a trace.

No matter how hard the spies searched, they could not find where the hundreds of slaves had been hidden.

After the king's guards found Antoine, they led their army into Xuelong City, escorted Antoine to the royal capital, and executed him in front of the elven ambassador.

When Viscount Renault learned of the news, he also shared the information he had with the soldiers from the capital.

However, the soldiers searched almost the entire manor but found no relevant clues.

And that was the end of it.

Viscount Renault found the matter too suspicious, and now that Anno had come, he warned Anno to be careful.

Upon learning of these events, Anno immediately had Ella summon the steward left behind by the king and inquired about the matter.

The butler recalled for a moment and replied, "That's what happened, but the soldiers didn't find anything suspicious."

Although this manor is not small, it is really impossible to hide thousands of people!

Therefore, we suspected at the time that Viscount Reynolds' intelligence was incorrect, and perhaps Antoine was not detected by Viscount Reynolds's spies when he secretly moved the slaves.

Upon hearing this, Anno looked around at the letter in his hand.

Viscount Renault repeatedly assured that the intelligence was reliable, and that several spies had personally witnessed slaves being brought into the manor at night, but none of them had ever come out of the manor.

"In that case, let's thoroughly investigate this place!"

Anno decided to trust Renault this time.

The manor is where Anno is currently living, and Anno doesn't want any problems to arise here.

Anno then walked out of the castle and summoned a large group of small creatures outside.

The soldiers, servants, and adventurers who had come with Hansen were all stunned by the sight of the group of monsters exuding a chilling aura.

What happened? Why make such a big fuss?

Even Adelaide, who was sleeping on the manor's grass, stood up and landed in front of Anno.

She thought she was about to fight.

Anno looked at the summoned creature in front of him and commanded, "Search the entire manor to see if there are any basements hiding hundreds or thousands of people, or secret passages leading out of the city."

Swish~!

A group of summoned creatures immediately scattered, some searching on the grass, some jumping into the fountain, some disappearing into the shadows, and others burrowing into the castle to begin their search.

The housekeeper, seeing this, felt that Anuo was making a mountain out of a molehill.

At that time, the soldiers also conducted a thorough search.

Although several hidden passages were found, they were all places where Antoine kept his treasures and gold coins.

If there were a place that could accommodate a thousand people, it would be impossible not to find it.

After Anno activated [X-ray vision], he also began searching the castle.

The entire estate is ten hectares, or 0.1 square kilometers.

It's not small, though.

To put it simply, with so many summoned creatures and over a hundred mercenaries, they quickly searched the entire manor.

An hour later, Anno confirmed that there was no problem with the castle.

Anno then began to suspect the underground.

There are limits to X-ray vision; Anno can currently see through a thickness of up to ten meters.

Beyond this thickness, even perspective is useless.

However, basements generally don't have walls ten meters thick.

As Anno was rubbing his eyes and resting, the lich came running up to him with a thick notebook, excitedly saying, "Master, I found a clue in this notebook. Those slaves may have been teleported away."