I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

"Lord Anno, someone presented me with this manual back then."

I was immediately shocked after seeing it.

I never imagined that there would be an underground city beneath the territory my family has passed down through generations!

As Gilbert led the way for Anno, he took a manual from his pocket and handed it to Anno.

"I did some research, and it seems that dungeons can be extremely dangerous. So before reporting it, I plan to go in and check it out myself."

Anno took the dungeon manual and laughed, "So, you've been reading it for half a year?"

Gilbert glanced at Anno and said awkwardly, "Mainly because there hasn't been much progress, I was just thinking of exploring a little deeper."

"Where is the person who gave you the manual?"

"He...he was killed by me!" Gilbert stammered. "The matter of the dungeon is too important, and I was worried that guy would leak it out."

"Since you employ so many professionals, aren't you afraid they'll leak information?"

"You know that? When I hired them at a high price, I prepared a contract: after leaving the dungeon, they must never tell anyone outside what happened inside, or they will die on the spot! They can't spread the news."

Seeing Gilbert's sly grin, Anno thought of the female mage he had threatened before.

"After leaving the dungeon? The people outside? Looks like that woman had pretty good luck."

Without these conditions, she would probably have been taken away by the God of Contract the moment she revealed the information to Anno.

Snapped!

Anno closed the dungeon manual.

The manual doesn't contain much information.

The identity of the dungeon's owner is unknown.

Besides describing the dungeon as having six levels, possibly containing numerous traps and golems, it also indicates that each level contains a large amount of treasure.

At the very bottom, there is a demonic eye.

"The Mystic Eyes that can control life and death, is this what you're after?"

Anno looked at Gilbert ahead and asked curiously.

"I did have this thought before, but now I've thought it through."

Gilbert said with a smirk, "I was just someone being used. I didn't even know there were demons and monsters hiding in the mansion."

The dungeon is real, but the demon eye inside is definitely fake.

Think about it carefully, no matter how powerful one eye is, it can't control someone's life or death!

"Yeah?"

Anno touched the closed Evil King's True Eye between his brows, thinking to himself, "A demonic eye that controls life and death might actually exist, right?"

Now that he has received news about the Demon Eye, Anno will definitely go to the bottom level to verify its authenticity.

"Lord Anno, this is the entrance!"

Gilbert led Anno to a building heavily guarded by soldiers.

The soldiers guarding the vicinity saw Gilbert's disheveled appearance and immediately looked at Anno warily.

But soon, Gilbert reprimanded them and sent them away.

"These men of mine have absolutely no sense of propriety!"

After reprimanding the soldiers, Gilbert smiled at Anno and then pointed to the square building, explaining, "The manual says the entrance to the underground city is underground, so I had a sloping staircase dug nearby to lead to the entrance."

This inclined staircase is about 200 meters long and about 50 meters deep underground.

I put in a lot of effort to build this inclined staircase, and it took me a long time to dig it to connect it to the underground city gate.

Then I sent people to build this building on top to conceal my true intentions.

"Just show my instructions to these guards, and you can get in."

At this point, he bent down and smiled at Anno, "Of course, Lord Anno can go in anytime!"

"Let's go in together!"

Anno put his hand on Gilbert's shoulder and walked down the stairs leading to the underground.

"Lord Anno, I...I can't do it!"

Gilbert forced a smile that looked more like a grimace and said, "This dungeon hasn't seen the light of day for who knows how many years, but there are still living monsters inside. Down there... it's very dangerous!"

"Don't worry, I'll protect you!"

Anno replied nonchalantly, "Or perhaps you've set a trap down there?"

"No, no!"

Gilbert repeatedly denied it.

He really didn't try any tricks this time.

This is the road they use every day.

No teleportation array is needed; you can go directly to the dungeon.

Antoine needs to use a teleportation array because the distance is quite far.

Anno led Gilbert, Liz, and Sassi to the entrance of the underground passage.

Upon opening the gate, a two-meter by two-meter, downward-sloping passageway appeared before Anno.

On the walls on both sides of the passage, every five meters, there is a crystal that emits light to illuminate the passage.

However, just as everyone lifted their feet to go inside, a series of wailing sounds and hurried footsteps came from inside.

"What happened?"

Gilbert was puzzled. Could there be a problem down there?

Not long after, two professionals covered in blood ran out of the passage.

The two looked terrified, as if they were being chased by death.

However, judging from their blood-stained clothes, they were indeed in trouble down there.

"William Dart? What's wrong with you two?"

Gilbert looked on incredulously.

These two were top-tier sixth-order mercenaries whom I had invited from the Duchy of Aureber at great cost. They were quite famous in the Duchy of Aureber, and their status was equivalent to that of the leaders of the top five of the ten mercenary groups in the royal city.

The two of them had been leading the raid team at the forefront of the battle, so why were they in such a sorry state today?

"It's a monster! A peak sixth-tier monster!"

After rushing up, William lay down on the ground and rested for a while before explaining, "When we were exploring the third level, a large number of monsters suddenly appeared on the first level. After receiving the notification, I immediately led the team back to prepare to clear out the monsters."

But we miscalculated. These monsters were likely teleported from below the third floor through a special area, and they were all at the peak of the sixth tier!

Each level of the dungeon has a special area.

These areas are either teeming with demonic puppets, and disturbing them means certain death.

Either it has a teleportation function, and people who go in may be teleported to unknown places, and the fate of many of those teleported is still unknown.

Dart, who was standing next to him, continued, "We met on the second floor. After we launched our attack, the raiding team suffered heavy casualties. We were no match for them at all."

William and I became quite familiar with the entire second floor during our exploration.

So we hid in a special area for a while.

Those monsters seemed unfamiliar with the terrain and couldn't find us.

After finding an opportunity, we rushed down to the first floor to report back, but we didn't expect there to be another one on the first floor!

We almost didn't make it back!

"Wait a minute!" Gilbert exclaimed, pointing wide-eyed at the sloping staircase. "Have they caught up with us?"

dong dong dong...

Heavy footsteps echoed through the passageway.