I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Tap tap...

A series of footsteps echoed in the passageway.

Then Anno and the others appeared at the exit of the third floor.

Not far from the exit, in a plaza spanning tens of thousands of square meters, lies William and his men's stronghold on the third floor.

It contains the people's living supplies and some people who are chained up.

Without a doubt, these were the slaves that William and his men had asked Gilbert to bring over in order to scout ahead.

In the dungeon, these slaves have only one ultimate fate: death!

Even during the scouting process, some survived the first day, the second day, the third day...

In a dungeon fraught with danger, even exploration teams cannot guarantee their own safety, let alone these slaves!

Therefore, the eyes of these slaves were filled with fear.

Upon seeing Anno and the others arrive, they kept shrinking into the crowd, fearing that they would be chosen to scout ahead.

"Lord Anno, these are..."

Gilbert was about to offer a defense.

Earlier, when they were up there, Anno had asked him about slaves.

His answer at the time was that he would not engage in the slave trade.

But of the hundreds of slaves here, half are human!

"We'll talk about it when we get back!"

Anno is now preparing to explore ahead. Releasing these slaves now would require leaving people to watch over them and prevent them from running away. It would be better to take them with him when he goes up later.

Led by William, Anno then continued to advance into areas unexplored on the map.

After walking about 500 meters, a dark shadow suddenly flashed across a fork in the road ahead.

At the same time, a white, unidentified object shot towards William, who was walking in front.

Knowing full well the terror of the three layers, William remained on high alert while leading the way.

He twisted his body and dodged the unknown attack.

Snapped!

Buck's shadow, standing behind William, was covered in a ball of white spider silk.

Anno glanced at Buck, then focused his gaze on a fourth-tier professional between Buck and William.

Like a professional frozen in place, his body instantly shattered into dozens of pieces of mangled flesh after William touched him, with blood flowing all over the ground.

"Such sharp spider silk!"

After Buck Shadow tore off the spider silk from his body, he discovered that there were wounds one centimeter deep all over his body.

It's like having a spider web tattooed on your chest—the dragon scorpion is wrapped around your body, but there's no shadow.

After entering the third floor, Anno's mind was also in a state of tension.

But the shadowy figure was too fast, and we were at a fork in the road. After attacking once, it hid somewhere else.

Therefore, Anno did not see the other party's information.

However, judging from the power of this attack, it is most likely a sixth-order attack.

"Sir, although this place has been explored by us, it is still a dangerous area."

William explained with lingering fear, "Actually, apart from the stronghold, other places could be attacked by unknown monsters at any time."

The gargoyles and golems of the dungeon generally don't leave the areas they guard, but the monsters living there occasionally come out to hunt, and many of these monsters are quite powerful.

Upon hearing this, Anno ordered, "Elena, you go first. Buck, Samoro, and Sassil, you follow behind. If they show themselves again, Sassil, go after them and engage them!"

"clear!"

The group shifted, with Elena, a pig-headed shield-bearer who had taken one from Anno, leading the way. Melee experts like Buck and Samoro walked on Elena's left and right sides—these were actually shadows of summoned creatures, their original forms still in Xuelong City.

Sassi, in her more agile human form, followed behind.

Of course, the other summoned shadows also formed a formation, cooperating with the four people in front.

Inside the passage, the blood flowing from the corpses of the professionals, cut into pieces by spider silk, spread through the air.

The monsters hidden in the nearby rooms, attracted by the scent of blood, began to move.

......

Reaching the fork in the road, Elena discovered traces left by the spider-like monster on the surrounding walls.

William took out a map, pointed to a place marked with a red cross, and then pointed to the fork in the road on the left.

"My lord, the left fork in the path is very dangerous; a group of magical beasts lives there. When we were scouting, one of our sixth-tier monsters died inside. The right fork is safe and leads to the next area!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the attack struck again from the shadows of the left fork in the road.

However, this time Elena easily blocked it with her shield!

William then saw a dark figure rush out from beside him and disappear into the left-hand side passage.

Then Buck and the others followed.

Rumble, rumble.

Soon, a series of chaotic sounds, including the roars of battle and the howls of monsters, came from the left passage.

"this......"

William was about to offer a reminder, but seeing that Anno behind him remained motionless, he swallowed his words.

Anyway, with this high-ranking guy here, he'll take the blame if anything goes wrong.

The sounds of battle in the left passage grew increasingly chaotic.

There are more than a dozen different kinds of roars from various magical beasts.

More than twenty shadows had already passed by Anno, and Liz also rushed over at Anno's command.

When Anno and the others walked over, there were already several spider-like monster corpses in the ruined building.

Several other figures were fighting against the summoned shadows nearby.

Purple (fifth rank) and black (sixth rank) souls flew out from the corpses of the dead monsters and merged into Anno's body.

The monsters still alive at the scene are mostly Tier 6!

Upon seeing this scene, William's forehead instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

No wonder the sixth-tier professional who led the team to explore this path disappeared without even sending a message.

If the monsters lurking in the left fork in the road were to rush out all at once, they could probably wipe out more than half of his raiding party!

However, these monsters eventually fell one by one before Anno's summons.

There are thirteen magical beasts in total, seven of which are of the sixth rank, including the Dark Night Blade Spider, Shadow Weasel, and Burrowing Worm.

The remaining six are all fifth-tier Dark Night Blade Spiders, likely descendants of the sixth-tier Dark Night Blade Spider.

In order to level up Liz and Sassi as quickly as possible, all the sixth-tier magical beasts were dealt with by the two of them.

The shadows were just providing cover from the sidelines.

Although some time was wasted, the two of them gained a lot of experience points.

Anno then had everyone search this "special area," and they found more than a dozen spider eggs the size of human heads in a nest.

These can be trained by hunters from a young age to serve as battle pets!

Besides these, the group also found several gems inside, but most of the other items were badly damaged.

The area was too large, and after discovering that there were no other magical beasts there, Anno led his people back to the previous fork in the road and headed to the right.

Although the dungeon is underground, there must be a magic circle inside that converts the air, otherwise there wouldn't be enough air inside.

As the blood spread through the air, the monsters in the dungeon began to stir.

When William led his men on the exploration, they would return to their base to rest after each battle, and only continue exploring once the monsters had calmed down.

But Anno is clearly not worried about that.

The monsters that rushed out following the scent of blood basically became experience points for Liz and Sassi to level up.

Before long, the group arrived at the extreme location that William and his team had previously explored.

William pointed to the dark area ahead and said, "That should be the central area; we haven't been inside yet."