I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Sodar, the capital city of the Kingdom of Niger.

Tester was sitting on the throne listening to reports from the kingdom's various military commanders and civil officials.

Tester had been preparing since Anno was set to convene the Expeditionary Alliance meeting more than a month ago.

Today, the army of the Kingdom of Nigar is ready to go anywhere.

But the only thing that worried Tester was the size of the army.

Even if Tester were to gather all the royal forces, he could only muster 500,000 soldiers.

Including the armies of the various nobles within the territory (except for those in Selangor), they could barely scrape together one million.

It looks like a lot.

However, at the last meeting, the number of the divine army alone may have reached hundreds of millions.

That's two orders of magnitude more!

Most importantly, according to the intelligence provided by Anno, the Protoss are stronger than the Humans in battles of the same level.

Although the Kingdom of Nigal has other allies in the Expeditionary Alliance, Angromros has to contend with more than just the divine realm.

"Have you contacted the Adventurers' Guild? How many adventurers are currently registered within the kingdom?"

Tester looked at one of the civil servants.

The latter immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we have already contacted the headquarters of the Royal City Adventurers' Guild."

According to statistics, there are approximately 1.5 million registered adventurers, but the vast majority are still at the zero or first rank, and their strength is incomparable to that of a regular army.

However, there are around 200,000 adventurers of rank two or above.

These adventurers are already capable of going to the battlefield.

The most powerful mid-level adventurers are mainly located in the royal city of Sodar, the adventurer's capital of Valcalm, and the city of Xuelong!

"Is that all already?!"

Tester has been busy with many government affairs lately and hasn't been paying attention to the Adventurers' Guild's development for some time.

Upon hearing this number, a hint of joy appeared on his face.

With 200,000 second-tier adventurers, the Adventurers' Guild is essentially providing the Kingdom of Nigar with an army of 200,000!

However, this army is somewhat unsuitable for use on the main battlefield.

However, they would be well-suited to be part of a guerrilla force tasked with missions in other dimensions.

"Anno's Xuelong City has a strong military, with an army of 100,000, and its mid-level elite troops cover 50% of the troops!"

"In that case, even if all the professionals in the Kingdom of Nigard are included, they can only muster a maximum of 2.6 million people?"

Hearing Tester's mutterings, Alek, the former lord of the northern border town of Wolengor, licked his lips and stepped forward, saying, "Your Majesty, if our enemy is truly strong, then besides these 2.5 million troops, we...we can muster about 50,000 professionals. However..."

Tester originally wanted to ask where there was another 50,000.

But when he saw the evasive look in Alek's eyes, he suddenly understood.

"No, absolutely not!"

Tester refused without even thinking.

"The Adventurers' Academy is our hope; it is filled with young people from all over the kingdom."

Sending them to the battlefield would not only result in the loss of lives, but also the loss of the kingdom's future.

The reason Alec mentioned the Adventurers' Academy is, of course, because the academy has begun to demonstrate its effectiveness.

Since the start of the school year in September, in just three months, 95% of the students have officially entered the professional field.

Those students whose talent for cultivation is too poor to become professionals, or those who become professionals but find that they are not suited for the path of cultivation, can learn a secondary profession.

For example, apprenticeships in medicine making, blacksmithing, and tailoring.

No profession makes their path more difficult than that of ordinary people, but through systematic learning, they can at least acquire a skill.

At the very least, they learned to recognize and write characters at the academy.

Since moving to the royal city, Alek has enjoyed studying Anno in his spare time.

He will study everything Anno does.

Adventurers' Guild, Adventurers' Academy, Craftsmen's Guild.

The more Alec studied it, the more he felt that Anno was an extraordinary person.

In his view, Anno's thinking simply doesn't belong to this era.

When he came to the academy, Alek discovered some data that shocked him.

Each university has a list of geniuses.

Only colleges ranked in the top ten in terms of overall strength are eligible to be included on the list.

Thanks to the intercity teleportation array, it became much easier for Alec to obtain intelligence.

He collected the genius lists from most of the academies and carefully examined the information of the students on the lists.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that there were simply too many brilliant geniuses.

Can you believe that a skinny, dark-skinned boy from the countryside in the Westerlands, who helped his parents with chores every day, became a second-tier retribution priest in less than three months?

Can you believe that a fisherman's daughter in the Southern Territory was born with superhuman strength, defeated all the students in the school who dared to challenge her in her first combat class, and even beat a first-class warrior teacher in a strength contest?

Can you believe that the third son of a down-on-his-luck baron in the North made friends with half of his classmates within a month of entering the school? With the college's approval, he formed a student organization to assist the school in managing students and to fight for various benefits for students in the local area. He even started to contact the local chamber of commerce to earn money to subsidize the student organization and the college.

Can you believe it? In less than three months, the top genius on the Royal City Adventurers Academy's list has already successfully hunted a Tier 3 magical beast under the academy's arrangement, thus qualifying for early graduation!

Without the Adventurers' Academy, the Retribution Priest would still be working on his family's farmland.

The girl with superhuman strength is still mending fishing nets and cleaning fishing boats.

The tenth son of a fallen baron had no right to inherit the throne, was looked down upon, and had no opportunity to use his talents.

The genius in the capital may still be a genius, but without so many outstanding peers chasing him on the genius list, his strength might not have improved so quickly!

These are just some of the more outstanding geniuses.

Moreover, three months is too short a time; many people may not have adapted yet.

Who knows how many hidden geniuses are among the first batch of 50,000 students?

Besides these 50,000, there are many other children of school age in the kingdom who have not yet entered the academy.

But when school starts next year, there will definitely be more students entering the college.

Once this generation graduates from the Adventurers' Academy, it will inevitably enhance the overall strength of the kingdom.

But if this generation sacrifices themselves on the battlefield, it will be a break in the line of an era.

"Your Majesty, I was just saying that."

Alec heard the words "absolutely impossible" in Tester's tone and retreated dejectedly.

Although he also wanted to protect these geniuses, as a hawkish nobleman from the North, Alec preferred to let these geniuses grow up on the battlefield of blood and fire.

It is difficult for a group of ordinary geniuses to save a country in danger.

But if just one more genius like Anno appears, it could change the landscape.

"Your Majesty!"

An elderly minister stepped forward, bowed, and said, "The end of the year is approaching, a time when the people of the whole country are preparing to celebrate the new year. Shouldn't the expedition be postponed until after the new year?"

Moreover, there's no need to use so many troops when launching expeditions to other planes.

"We've been through so many wars in the past two years, and now we're going to mobilize the entire army again? That will damage the foundation of our nation!"

Only a few people know about World War III.

At this moment, the ministers in the council hall, though holding high positions, only know about the expedition to other planes.

"Things have come to this point; it's time to tell you all about it!"

Tester took a deep breath and looked at the ministers below who were watching with bated breath, and said, "The main purpose of the Expeditionary Alliance is not expedition, but to defend against enemy attacks."

Ladies and gentlemen, the era of peace is over.

The Third War of the Gods is about to begin... and it has already started!