The Stone Forest Secret Realm is located in the east of the secret realm labyrinth where Shi Leiyin is located, and there is a small principality with only three cities in the middle, the Three Duchy Principalities.

The Duchy of the Three Duchies is a very peculiar principality, first of all, it is not subordinate to a kingdom like most principalities, but a direct principality of the Arrantic Empire.

Secondly, the ruler of this duchy was not a duke, but three imperial dukes. This is also the origin of the name Sangong. The three imperial dukes built three cities in this place, which can be said to be the land of projectiles, and this is how the Three Duchyes were created.

In the end, the territory of the Three Duchies was almost surrounded by secret realms. The east is the Stone Forest Secret Realm, the north is the Three Beasts Mountain Secret Realm, the south is the Shenyu Lake Secret Realm, and the west is originally the only place that the Three Duchy Principalities need to defend, but now it has become the Secret Realm of Life, that is, the scope of the Secret Realm Labyrinth. There are even people who suspect that there is also an unopened secret realm in the middle of the three cities of the Three Duchies, and the three dukes built a city here and built the Three Duchyes so harmoniously, there must be some ulterior motives. It's just that there is nothing unusual in the area in the middle of the three cities, and there is no place that is forbidden to enter, and the three dukes even encourage merchants to build a trade area there, which is very similar to the construction of the central area as an exchange point. This situation also makes people regard this speculation as jealousy of not being able to eat grapes and saying that grapes are sour.

Due to the special geographical location of the Three Duchies, whether it is the Mercenary Union, the Holy Light Church, or the Professionals Alliance, they have arranged their own branches in the three cities, which leads to the fact that the upper echelons of the Three Duchies are harmonious, and the lower levels are full of competition - the branch ministers who can say nothing in a principality can only care about the effect in a city here, which is unbearable for most people who can be the first leader of the upper branch.

The names of the three cities in the Three Duchy are also very interesting, and they are not named after the title of the lord or duke according to the naming method of most cities, but are simply named the Grand Duke, the Second Duke, and the Three Dukes. It is said that this is because the three dukes knew each other and referred to them as brothers before they inherited their respective titles, and this way of naming is actually a reflection of their brotherly relationship.

The Stone Forest Secret Realm is close to the Grand Duke City, and Shi Leiyin's first destination is also there.

Through the hard work with No. 13, Shi Leiyin finally solved the first big problem in his mission - the problem of joining a team of adventurers. Originally, it wasn't too difficult for Shi Leiyin to impersonate a lone assassin, even if it was a strange assassin who slashed his target to death with a two-handed broadsword. But it is far more difficult to get a strange assassin to join a normal team of adventurers than an ordinary adventurer. After Shi Leiyin threatened not to help solve it, he would rather not be an assassin to complete the mission, it seems that the thirteenth who would like to see Shi Leiyin wear armor and play assassination with a two-handed sword finally compromised.

All Shi Leiyin needs to do now is to take the name of the assassin of the Demon Sword Clan codenamed Hassan, go to the adventurer's union in Grand Duke City to find a person named Fujiwara, and join this person's adventure team, and then follow the other party into the Stone Forest Secret Realm.

The Grand Duke City Adventurers' Union, Fujiwara has been waiting for three days in a row in a corner of the recreation area.

Fujiwara is a veteran adventurer, and although he is only over 30 years old, he already has more than 20 years of adventurer qualifications. Not only has his own strength reached the sixth-order thirteenth-level powerhouse realm, but the adventurer's level is also as high as the eighth-level. You must know that although the level of adventurers is affected by strength, the most important thing is the task completion rate and customer satisfaction. Even if a ninth-order powerhouse wants to increase the level of an adventurer with his strength, he must complete at least twenty or more tasks of the same rank to reach the level of ninth. In terms of Fujiwara's age, reaching the level of an eighth-level adventurer is definitely the result of the dual efforts of genius and diligence.

And the reason why Fujiwara waited for three days with nothing to do in the corner of the adventurer's guild was for one person and one task. Of course, the two can be said to be the same thing, and Fujiwara needs to let that person join his own adventure party in order to meet his own conditions to undertake that mission. And that task is the key to the promotion of your own adventure group from an ordinary adventure group to an elite adventure group.

Adventurers are divided into ranks, and there are also levels for adventure parties. However, the level of the adventurer symbolizes strength and the ability to complete the task, while the level of the adventure party symbolizes the size and number of people in the adventure group. Generally speaking, the larger the number of people, the stronger the party. But there are also a few adventure groups that do not pursue quantity, but quality. This kind of adventure group, where every member is a high-level adventurer, is called an elite adventure group.

The Elite Adventure Party has very good perks in the Adventurer's Guild, not only with priority on most missions, but also with a large number of free intelligence qualifications, and is more likely to be selected by mission publishers.

However, the elite adventure group is not something that can be claimed by a few high-level adventurers. If you want to enjoy the benefits of the Adventurer's Union, you must be recognized by the Adventurer's Union. In addition to the mandatory requirement that all adventurers must be level five or higher, three Elite Test missions must be completed to be approved. After Fujiwara's adventuring group was formed, it only received three elite test missions in three years, and failed once. Therefore, for this mission, he is almost inevitable.

Fortunately, the key to this mission lies with the Assassin who is about to come to him, and as long as the Assassin approves of him and joins his team, the mission will surely fall into the hands of him and his party. Therefore, Fujiwara did not hesitate to sit in the adventurer's union two days before the agreed time and wait for the arrival of the other party, although this may reveal his intentions, but it is also a means to show favor to the other party and show his attention.

Habitually looking at the gates of the Guild, Fujiwara thought back to the few pieces of information the Assassin had.

On this continent, the title Assassin lost its original meaning after it was defined as an advanced class of thieves among the professions. Although it can still represent accurate hand-to-hand combat skills and strong stealth ability, only a very small number of people are still engaged in the original work of the title of assassin - assassination.

This time, the person to be invited was a real assassin who was still engaged in assassination. And although the class level is still stuck at the advanced stage of the Assassin rather than the higher level of the Cross Assassin, the actual strength has definitely reached or even surpassed those newly promoted Cross Assassins, which can be seen from the Assassin's completion of the mission - not only has a 100% mission completion rate, but the target even includes a veteran Knight Lord. Fujiwara, however, was not only superior to the knight lord, but also had at least two Cross Assassins as his guard, and if he wanted to deal with him, even if his own team attacked, it would take a lot of effort to do it. This assassin was able to accomplish the task on his own, at least not under his own strength. Just looking at the report on the Adventurers' Guild on the sixth order and tenth level of strength, Fujiwara preferred to believe that the other party had used the assassination techniques handed down by those real assassins to complete the assassination mission.