I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

Chapter 699 The Summoning God Has Lost All Face

A cool breeze occasionally swept across the dark earth.

The goblin, who was sleeping against a rock, was awakened by the wind, turned over, and closed his eyes again.

But the goblin's ears twitched, and it immediately climbed onto the rock behind it, peeking out with its eyes to look ahead.

"Hehehe..."

When the goblin saw two figures, one large and one small, walking towards it, it drew a short knife from its waist and quietly retreated behind a rock to hide.

Just as the two figures reached the trap the goblin had set on the road, it immediately emerged from behind a rock, brandishing a short knife and flicking its tongue.

The goblin had dug a deep pit on the road and filled it with sharp wooden spikes, then covered it with branches, fallen leaves, and black soil.

Any monster that walks on it will fall into the trap.

Then it only needs to kill the prey that isn't quite dead yet.

But this time, when it excitedly ran out, it was stunned to find two figures walking across the trap it had set without falling into it.

The running speed also decreased.

The goblin holding the dagger, standing frozen by the roadside, and Anno, who had stopped ahead because of its appearance, stared at each other for two seconds.

"No wonder there was such a low-level trap, it's a goblin!"

Philomena looked up, revealing her chubby face beneath her hat, and gave a slight smirk.

"Goblin!"

Anno watched the goblin, whose legs were rather short, darting into the nearby forest, and sighed.

In the Demon Realm, there are a great many of these low-level goblins.

However, the eighth-tier Anno and the ninth-tier Philomena are not afraid of a mere goblin.

There was no magic wand, no incantation.

A gigantic fire serpent rapidly materialized above Anno's head, charging towards the fleeing goblins.

Anno suffered a lot at the hands of the goblins back then.

He wouldn't let these evil and cunning guys go just because their strength was vastly different from his own.

"Lady Philomena, we've been searching in the Demon Realm for a week now. How far are we from the divine ruins you mentioned?"

Anno didn't even glance at the goblin engulfed in flames, but looked down at Philomena beside him.

Philomena pressed her hat down to keep it from being blown away by the heat, and held her Lolita dress in place with her other hand. She squinted and replied impatiently, "It's been over a thousand years, how would I know the exact location? But it should be somewhere in this area. Keep searching!"

Anno sighed and looked around.

He hadn't expected that Philomena would bring him to the Demon Realm right away.

According to Philomena, there was no such thing as a "magic realm" on the continent more than a thousand years ago.

What is now the Demon Realm was once the territory of a certain country a thousand years ago.

But now, this country is gone.

"Actually, there are relatively more relics of the gods in the Demon Realm, after all, the area is large."

The main locations of the original God War are almost all now located in the Demon Realm.

As for your so-called six-nation alliance, it seems that during the Second War of the Gods, the kingdoms of Angoros were almost wiped out, and the remaining kingdoms formed an alliance.

Philomena started teaching Anno some knowledge again.

With the unlocking of her power, Philomena's memories were also largely unlocked.

In the past few days, Anno has heard Philomena talk a lot about the Second War of the Gods—Philomena had nothing to do with the First War of the Gods, so she didn't know anything about it.

However, it mainly discusses factional relationships and the power balance among the gods.

Philomena remained silent about the true reason for the war of the gods.

"By the way, you said that the ranks of gods are divided into lower, middle, and upper levels."

Of these, lower-level gods accounted for 90%, middle-level gods accounted for 90% of the remaining 10%, and less than 1% of the gods were higher-level gods.

The higher gods rarely show themselves, and even during the war of the gods, no higher gods participated.

What level were you at before you were sealed away?

Upon hearing this question, Philomena crossed her arms, raised her small face, and proudly declared, "A mid-level god!"

"Is the God of Summoning merely a mid-level god?"

Anno asked in surprise, "Isn't it said that the God of Summoning is an enemy of the whole world, attacked by all the gods, and that there is no safe place for the God of Summoning to live in the divine realm?"

What constitutes the realm of a mid-level god?

According to Anno's conjecture, that person must have been at least a peak Upper God.

How could a mid-level god cause such a big impact?

Upon hearing this, Philomena glared at Anno and said, "Do you look down on mid-level gods?"

Do you think that once you reach the god-level strength, it's easy to advance further?

Do you know how slow it is to accumulate faith power?

Even now, humanity's six class gods, after thousands of years, are only mid-level gods!

Philomena's mouth fired like a machine gun at Anno.

"In short, all you need to know is that the God of Summoning is the greatest and most powerful deity!"

You little rascal, it's time for you to genuinely join my cult and become my follower.

"How about it? If you kneel before me now, I'll leave fanaticism's magic thread on you... Hey, what are you going to do?"

Anno grabbed Philomena's shoulders with both hands and lifted her up with a forceful movement.

Looking at Philomena, who was at eye level with him and whose anger was steadily building, Anno laughed and said, "Lady Philomena, I have always been your follower!"

Boom!

A fireball appeared in Philomena's hand. She looked up at Anno and roared, "I've never seen a believer dare to disrespect their god!"

Whoosh!

The fireball grazed Anno's ear and flew behind him, hitting a small hill.

Boom!

As the ground shook, the top of the small hill exploded.

Anno stared at the raging fire on the hill and the monsters scrambling to escape from the forest, then looked at Philomena with a dark expression and said, "Philomena, are you serious?!"

"Don't call me Xiaona!"

Philomena, cheeks puffed out, kicked Anno with her short legs and shouted, "Put me down! I've found the entrance to the ruins! It's in that mountain!"

Pfft!

As soon as Anno let go, Philomena, who was thrashing about wildly, fell to the ground and landed face-first in the dirt.

"Ah, so it's in the mountains?"

Anno's eyes lit up as he used [Far Vision] to search the area and headed towards the hill.

"I knew you wouldn't lay a hand on me; you really gave me a fright just now."

Before leaving, Anno said this last sentence.

"Hmm~~~~"

Filomena, sitting on the ground like a duck, clenched her fists and glared at Anno's retreating figure, baring her teeth and yelling, "Anno, if you do that to me again, believe me, I'll beat you so badly your own mother won't recognize you!"

"I almost forgot about you!"

Anno, who had already walked some distance, ran back and grabbed Philomena, who was sitting on the ground, and ran towards the hill.

"This is the Demon Realm, after all. We need to hurry since we've made such a commotion here."

Anno held her up in mid-air with one arm around her waist, and two lines of tears streamed down her face.

"I'm so sorry, Second Generation Lord, I've completely disgraced the God of Summoning!"