"oh?"

Laura became interested after hearing this and motioned for Annuo to continue.

"Every spring, the activity of monsters increases significantly. They often attack the villages and towns around Valkham City!"

An Nuo's tone suddenly became serious. He looked at Laura and asked, "Miss Laura, don't you think Valkham City is a bit crowded now?"

"What do you mean?" Laura frowned slightly.

Valkham's development has always been smooth, and this is entirely due to her father, Viscount Renault.

Now that Anno actually wanted to criticize Valkham, Laura was naturally unhappy.

An Nuo knew that Laura had misunderstood him, and he quickly explained.

“Please don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean anything else.

As far as I know, Valkham was originally a border city of only 200,000 people, but now it has 300,000 people living in it.

The extra 100,000 people almost all escaped from the surrounding villages and towns that were attacked by monsters.

Over the years, the number of towns and villages around Valkham has continued to decrease.

There are less than forty villages and towns left in the southern part of the kingdom now!"

What An Nuo said was the information he collected in the city in the past two days.

On the surface, Valkham was prosperous, with the streets filled with people.

But the fact is, Valkham's population is about to exceed the threshold!

The extra people should have lived in the surrounding villages and towns.

However, due to the attacks of monsters, these villages and towns have now become ruins.

The reason for this is that these tragedies continue to happen because the forces within Valkham are not enough to disperse and protect the surrounding towns.

More and more villages and towns were destroyed, but the number of monsters seemed to have not decreased at all.

"so what?"

Laura frowned her pretty eyebrows, not understanding what Annuo meant.

"I think the reason why the monsters are so rampant is that we have always been on the passive defense and have basically never taken the initiative to attack!"

Anno's voice suddenly became louder. He stood up from his seat, pointed outside and said, "If we let the professionals in Valkham go out of the city and take the initiative to clean up the monsters, the safety of the surrounding villages and towns will naturally increase!"

Laura thought An Nuo could offer some unique insights, but she didn't expect that all he said was nonsense.

If Valkham's professionals could take the initiative, would her father have waited until now?

"Mr. Anno, you came here to cooperate with my father just to say this?"

If Annuo nodded, it would mean that the other party was just so-so.

But Anno shook his head!

“No, no, no, Miss Lola.

The Viscount is a man who can manage a city of 300,000 people in an orderly manner. He must have thought about such a problem.

But, for some reason, this method simply doesn’t work!”

An Nuo squinted at Laura and whispered three words.

"Mercenary Group!"

After Annuo's investigation, he found that except for a few mercenary groups that stood on the side of Viscount Renault, the rest of the mercenary groups in the city had already formed an alliance.

In order to get a higher bounty, they deliberately refused to accept the monsters offered by the Viscount, which led to tragic events happening again and again.

Every spring, they hope the monsters will cause more trouble so that they can get more bounty.

It is impossible to expect such people to leave Valkham on their own initiative.

Laura has been smart since she was a child. After she turned fifteen, she began to help Viscount Renault deal with affairs in the city.

Viscount Renault also intends to train Laura, his only child.

Now eighteen years old, Laura has actually taken over many things in the city.

Therefore, she was fully aware of the actions and thoughts of the mercenaries.

When she heard An Nuo say the word "mercenary group", a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.

“The mercenaries are just professionals who work for bounties. Unless there are monsters attacking the city, they are not under my father’s jurisdiction.

There are relatively few guards in the city, and they also have to guard the safety of the city and villages, so it is impossible for them to go out of the city to hunt monsters!"

After Laura explained the reason, there was a questioning look in her eyes.

"What do you think should be done?"

"I checked and based on the seals issued by each profession, a rough calculation shows that the total number of professionals in the Valkham City Mercenary Group exceeds 2,500.

Apart from the one thousand Chamber of Commerce guards who travelled back and forth between the various cities and the more than seven hundred guards stationed in the city and surrounding villages and towns, there were still nearly a thousand professionals in the city!

Among these thousands of people, although 90% are professionals at levels 0-5, there are also strong people like Mark.

These people can be used to their full potential!"

Laura didn't expect that Annuo had such a clear understanding of the number of professionals in the city.

But she still didn't know what role these second-rate professionals who were screened out by mercenary groups and chambers of commerce, or those who were eccentric and kept to themselves, could play.

“I know that these people are low-talented.

After they were eliminated, they did not have enough resources and their possibility of further upgrading was basically cut off.

However, although talent is important, hard work and sweat are equally important.

Who can guarantee that there won’t be a strong person among these thousands of people?

But now, they cannot join mercenary groups and guilds, so they have no commissions or money to upgrade themselves, and can only do the same work as ordinary people in the city.

This is a huge waste!

Not only that, every resident in the city can choose to become a professional.

But because of the existence of thousands of people, they feel that even if they work hard to become professionals, it is still possible to become an ordinary person in the end.

By then, the 5 silver coins spent on learning basic skills will not be recovered.

With this kind of thinking, the city's residents will be less willing to become professionals.

I think this is also the reason why there are only 5,000 professionals among 300,000 people!"

“Even if what you said is true, there are people among them who are buried.

But we cannot and do not have the ability to train everyone just for a few people who may be buried!"

Laura felt that what Annuo said made sense, but it was basically impossible to change the current situation.

There is no need to say much about the power of monsters.

Most of the professionals who were left behind were only level 2 or 3.

Without the leadership of senior professionals, they simply did not have the strength to go out and hunt monsters on their own.

It was even less likely that the Viscount would entrust the task to them - if he did so, he would simply be sending these people to their deaths.

The corners of An Nuo's mouth curled up wildly.

After saying so much and laying so much groundwork, I finally brought the topic to this point.

"I didn't ask the Viscount to train them, but I have a way to let them train themselves! When they grow up, they can completely relieve the Viscount's worries!"

Laura's eyes lit up, and she quickly asked, "What's the solution? Tell me now!"

"This method will take some time to see results, and it also requires the support of the Viscount..."

An Nuo chuckled and began to discuss with Laura.

The natural solution is to establish an Adventurer's Guild, let the professionals in the city register as adventurers, and then take on missions to make money.

The missions here are different from the large-scale missions undertaken by the mercenary group.

The Adventurer's Guild starts with small quests to give low-level adventurers a chance to develop.

And these tasks require the help of Viscount Renault.

This is also what An Nuo calls "the support of the Viscount".