I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

To the cavalry's surprise, despite the extremely low visibility in the fog, they did not encounter any high-level creatures.

"Was that the final, high-level stage?"

One of the cavalry captains couldn't help but think this to himself.

The warhorse beneath him had already slowed down considerably, since he couldn't see anything inside and it would be too much of a loss to crash into something and kill himself.

Beside the cavalry captain were a large number of cavalrymen.

They crowded together to protect themselves from any dangers that might arise in the fog.

boom!

Suddenly, the captain of the knights realized that his horse seemed to have bumped into something.

But the visibility is so bad, I can't even see clearly at such a close distance.

The knight captain was startled and, without thinking twice, thrust his knight's lance forward.

But the spear that had been thrust out was clearly caught by an unknown enemy.

Before the knight captain could warn those around him, a tremendous force from the other end of the gun snapped him up.

Pfft!

The knight captain had just landed when a pair of large hands grabbed his neck and slowly lifted him up.

Despite wearing steel armor, the neck guard was crushed and deformed as if made of paper by the enemy in front of him.

"...Uh...uh..."

The knight's throat was constantly being squeezed by the contracting neck guard, making a cracking sound, while he struggled in Anno's hands.

The knight was certain that there were still comrades about two meters behind him.

But he was also certain that his comrades would most likely never see what he was going through.

"【Poisonous mushrooms】!"

Anno's free right hand glowed with magical light, and a magic circle the size of a palm appeared. Anno then placed it on the knight's exposed skin.

Then, the dying knight suddenly felt unbearable pain all over his body.

"Mmm...mmm...help..."

The knight's eyes bulged out and were bloodshot. He kept pounding Anno's arm with one hand, and his legs kicked wildly in the air.

boom!

The helmet was suddenly knocked off.

A giant, brightly colored mushroom suddenly appeared in Anno's field of vision.

Its rootstock was embedded in the knight's mouth, and its colorful cap was as big as two human heads.

The knight, who had already fallen silent, had mushrooms of all sizes growing on other parts of his body, and his flesh and blood were visibly shriveling up.

Anno threw the body in front of him and then raised his right hand again.

A magic circle with a diameter of one meter was quickly constructed, and then the light shot directly onto the falling corpse.

"Disaster!"

boom!

The cap of the poisonous fungus burst open, and countless tiny mycelia clung to the nearby knights and warhorses in the darkness.

The knights wore full plate armor, which effectively prevented the parasitic growth of mycelium.

However, the clothing around the joints of the plate armor could not prevent the mycelium from taking root in the flesh inside.

They are like mosquitoes, piercing their skin with sharp tendrils and then frantically sucking blood and flesh to grow stronger.

Besides the joints, the eye area is also a major affected area.

The knights whose areas were covered by mycelium immediately let out a scream and fell from their warhorses.

Their warhorses also cried out in agony and began to flee in all directions.

The number of mycelia parasitizing a warhorse can be dozens or even hundreds of times greater than that on a knight!

The knights who had not yet been affected were all tense upon hearing the screams of their comrades and the neighing of their warhorses.

Just when all the knights who hadn't been parasitized thought that an enemy had appeared, the magic circle in Anno's book lit up again.

"Disaster!"

As the warhorse was parasitized by the fungus, it ran around wildly and spread the fungus to the surrounding area.

After the second [calamity] struck, no knight was spared.

A minute later, besides humanoid skeletons, horse-shaped skeletons, and fallen armor and weapons, all that remained around Anno was a layer of poisonous fungus covering the corpses, shimmering deadly in the mist.

For this war and the wars that may follow, Anno specifically upgraded the two early-game Summoner Skills to Tier 7!

Strengthening [Poisonous Fungus] and [Calamity] to the seventh tier consumed a full 1250 seventh-tier souls for Anno—250 for [Poisonous Fungus] and 1000 for [Calamity]!

This number is truly giving Anno a headache.

For ordinary skills, upgrading from tier 6 to tier 7 generally requires around fifty tier 7 souls.

After the enhancement, Anno's seventh-tier souls were completely drained—of course, Anno didn't just enhance these two summoner skills.

In terms of effectiveness, [Poison] and [Disaster] are absolutely amazing skills for clearing out minions.

Especially in the fog.

The enemy soldiers didn't even know how they died.

Rushing in blindly will only lead to pointless deaths.

"While they're useless against undead creatures, for you flesh and blood, no matter how many come, they'll only become nutrients for the growth of the poisonous fungus!"

Anno was enveloped in two layers of magical shields, as was Liz beside him.

The magical shield kept the mycelium out, so the two of them didn't have to worry about being parasitized.