I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

"Haha...Enjoyable, enjoyable!"

The shadow's figure flashed rapidly among the surrounding Netherworld Ninth-Tier experts.

Unlike the omnipotent original body, the shadow, while possessing the original body's mana regeneration speed, has a very low mana cap.

This prevents the shadow from using a large number of high-level skills to bombard enemies in a short period of time, just like the main body.

Shadow is better at fighting enemies using close-quarters combat skills and swordsmanship.

Of course, as part of Anno, the Shadow will possess all the melee abilities of the main body.

However, the main character's combat style prioritizes using skill bombardment and summoned creatures for focused fire.

The assembled ninth-tier Netherworld Clan powerhouses originally intended to join forces to eliminate the two Elf Kings.

However, the Elf King was simply too powerful; within the timeframe, he killed more than a dozen ninth-tier beings.

Two of the remaining three peak ninth-tier Netherworld race members died from their ultimate techniques before the Elemental Spirit King's duration ended.

The Fire Elemental King's ultimate skill, [Explosive Flame Spell], caused dense incantations to appear on the target's bones.

A level 50 Netherworld race member was directly exorcised in flames.

The Wind Elemental King's ultimate skill, "Gale Spell," transforms into countless swirling wind blades that slice the target into molecular-level particles.

The last peak ninth-tier Netherworld Clan member had just had his soul flame shattered by Shadow's sword.

The second wave of ninth-tier Nether Race members who gathered couldn't help but stop in their tracks.

Seeing Anno surrounded in the distance, the Dream Thieves who wanted to come to his aid couldn't help but swallow hard when they saw how fierce Anno was.

"They don't need our help at all!"

"That's incredibly powerful!"

Just as this group of ninth-tier dream thieves were about to turn around and leave to continue fighting the other Netherworld race, everyone stopped at the same time and looked at Anno in unison.

"Hey, hey, hey, are you kidding me?"

One of the ninth-tier dream thieves seemed to have seen something unbelievable, cursed under his breath, and rushed towards the shadow.

The other dream thieves also rushed forward with tense expressions.

I was so shocked by the shadow's power that I didn't react for a moment.

Only now have the dream thieves realized this.

Isn't that guy Anno?

Mid- to low-level dream thieves may not yet know Anno's true identity.

But how could these ninth-tier Dream Thief members not know that Anno is the Child of the World?

One of the objectives of this war was to protect Anno from being captured by the enemy.

As a result, the protected target simply swaggered onto the battlefield.

These dream thieves were emotionally devastated at this moment.

They could have outmaneuvered the enemy, fighting and retreating simultaneously.

But now that Anno has come to the battlefield, they must protect him.

Clang!

The fastest ninth-tier Dream Thief had barely flown near the shadow when he was cleaved away by the shadow's sword.

If the Dream Thief hadn't been quite skilled, that lightning-fast sword strike might have killed him.

"What happened?"

The Dream Thief was covered in cold sweat and looked at Anno with a puzzled expression.

Seeing this, the other dream thieves dared not approach Anno.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Shadow sheathed his sword and said coldly, "Sorry, I attacked the wrong person. But I held back at the last moment, otherwise you definitely wouldn't have been able to withstand my sword strike."

The dream thief who was slashed by the shadow did not doubt Anno's words.

Because he never expected Anno to cut him.

Caught off guard, if Anno had used his full strength, he wouldn't have been able to block it at all.

Despite this, the Dream Thief still looked rather grim.

He came out of kindness to protect someone, but was almost killed by the other party.

It would be hard for anyone to feel this way.

"I roughly know what you're here for."

Seeing that no one spoke, Shadow took the initiative to say, "I am not Anno's true form; you can think of me as an avatar."

Upon hearing the shadow's explanation, the dream thief suddenly understood.

No wonder those god-level powerhouses in the Sunset Ruins didn't stop Anno.

It wasn't the real thing after all.

Have any of you seen the Phoenix Queen, one of the Twelve Adventurers' Kings?

Since there were people on their side, Shadow simply asked.

The dream thieves present exchanged glances, each seeing confusion in the other's eyes.

What are the Twelve Kings of Adventurers?

They are dream thieves, and their main focus is on the movements of armies in various planes of the God Alliance, information on powerful adversaries, and the dynamics of war.

The twelve adventurer kings were not even within their scope of attention.

Seeing this, Shadow immediately realized that these people were unaware, and asked, "Where is the Elf Queen now?"

"My name is Abbott, and we are not responsible for the Elf Queen's security."

Abbott, the Dream Thief who was almost hit by Anno, stepped forward and said, "Our main task is to hold back the enemy's ninth-tier powerhouses on the battlefield and prevent them from indiscriminately slaughtering our soldiers."

As for the Elf Queen's guards, they were mainly the responsibility of the Elf race.

Of course, when we arrived to help the Elf Royal City escape the siege, we also sent thousands of high-ranking officers into the city to assist the Elf Guard in resisting the Underworld Clan.

However, their main task is also to restrain the high-ranking Netherworld race within the city.

Elf Queen..."

Hearing this, Shadow interrupted impatiently, "So you mean you don't know?"

Abbott nodded helplessly.

"Go on with your work!"

Shadow, having failed to obtain the information he desired, became too lazy to continue the conversation with these people.

However, after such a long delay, hundreds of high-level Nether Race members have already gathered in the surrounding space.

Among them, there are about fifty ninth-tier experts.

"We can't continue fighting them!"

Shadow twisted his neck, intending to get rid of these Netherworld Clan members and hurry up to find Geng Qingxue and Elisana.

If he wanted to leave, these Netherworld race members basically couldn't stop him.

As Anno's shadow, unless the other side sends out figures of the level of high-level Divine Walker, ninth-level Protector, Time-space Apostle, or god-level powerhouse.

Either the shadow is completely surrounded and unable to break through, leaving them with no choice but to fight to the death.

Otherwise, the shadow would hardly encounter an opponent.

Just as Shadow was preparing to kill a few of the strongest Netherworld beings and then leave.

A giant fire phoenix suddenly flew up from the battlefield below.

"Geng Qingxue!"

Shadow instantly understood that this was Geng Qingxue doing the same thing as he had just done, using her skills to transmit coordinate information.

"I don't have time to play with you guys anymore!"

Upon seeing that Geng Qingxue's location was surrounded by layers of Netherworld Clan members, a cloud of black mist suddenly burst forth around the shadow.

"This is... the black mist of the underworld."

The nearby Netherworld beings, seeing the spreading black mist, immediately realized what was happening and exclaimed in alarm, "He's trying to escape!"