"My intuition is pretty accurate."

Lu Cang took out the letter, but did not place it on the tray.

Lu Cang looked at Maple King Nigeronzi, who was sitting on the throne.

He rebuked without any respect: "False King."

"Your disguise has been exposed, why don't you show your true colors?" Lu Cang conjured a flintlock pistol in his right hand.

A bullet struck Nigronz directly in the head.

Bang!

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However, the bullet failed to penetrate the opponent's skull.

The bullet fell off after hitting the opponent's forehead.

Nigellin realized the attack!

He immediately stood up, pointed at Lu Cang and the others, and roared, "They're assassins! Seize them!"

Instantly, all the guards sprang into action!

They surrounded Lu Cang and the others!

However, Lu Cang and the others moved much faster than they had expected.

In the blink of an eye.

Lu Cang and Leng Qingying charged straight out from the crowd.

Charge toward Nigerontz!

Nigronz's four health bars have also been displayed.

He was also a boss-level figure.

The world of Fantasy Realm is extremely free, so free that every NPC has a level, a health bar, and can be killed.

All buildings can also be destroyed.

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【Maple King - Nigeronzi】

Health Points: ???

[Level: ? ?]

【Skill:? ? ? 】

[Description: The King who rules over the entire Maple City]

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Although she didn't know what Lu Cang's reasons were for starting the war, Leng Qingying still chose to believe him for the time being.

"The brave are fearless, White Deer, do not kill the guards!"

Lu Cang issued the order.

The fearless warrior, who was about to unleash his dragon sword and wipe out all the guards, immediately stopped.

"Don't kill them? Then what should we do?"

"Nothing to do."

Meanwhile, Lu Cang had already jumped into the air above the palace.

This is a very large palace with a very high ceiling.

Lu Cang directly activated the ability of the fearless warrior.

Switch to greatsword.

Immediately afterwards, the Raptors drew their swords!

The dragon's sword strike is not an all-around, inescapable attack, but rather a cylindrical, expanding sword aura centered on itself.

The sword aura has a radius of 70 meters, but a height of only 3 meters.

Lu Cang slashed from top to bottom in mid-air, just in time to avoid accidentally injuring the guards!

puff!

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After the equipment was revamped, the Dragon's Sword Slash can now deal up to 400,000 damage!

Immediately afterwards, a double pull!

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"Maple King" hadn't even had a chance to retaliate.

After striking Nigeronz twice with his sword, his four health bars were instantly emptied.

*Thud!* He fell to his knees.

He then collapsed to the ground.

After his death, his body gradually changed and was no longer in its original human form.

"Stop! Look at your king!"

After Lu Cang instantly killed "Maple King", he immediately shouted!

All the guards turned to look in the direction of the throne.

But they discovered that the corpse on the throne was not King Fenghua.

Instead, it was a hideous monster with red eyes, white skin covered in wrinkles.

【Odushorn, the Shapeshifter】

Upon seeing this, all the guards' names changed from red to yellow.

This means they are no longer hostile, but they are not exactly friendly either.

War could break out at any time, depending on how the situation changes.

What's going on?

Why has the king become like this?

In fact, when the guard asked this question, he already had a corresponding guess in mind.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Cang took out the letter.

The contents of the letter were read aloud.

"Your Excellency Prince Nigronzi of Maple Leaf, our investigation team has recently obtained some startling intelligence."

"A shapeshifter capable of transforming into any creature could very well have infiltrated your mansion."

"It is still unclear what their conspiracy is, but the situation is extremely urgent. Please be careful and immediately investigate any spies within the mansion!"

"Investigation Guard Captain - Hans Qi Shang."

Lu Cang closed the letter and handed it forward.

"If any of you have any objections, you may come and view this letter."

"It has your Captain Hans's magical seal on it, so it's impossible for outsiders to fake it."

“Your true king should be in a special dungeon right now.”

The guards exchanged bewildered glances, then one of the captains immediately ordered, "What are you all standing there for! Go and investigate!"

After saying this, the guards hurriedly left the palace and headed towards the dungeon.

Brave Warrior and White Deer were also somewhat confused about the situation.

But soon, the brave and fearless realized: "I knew there was an ambush!"

Leng Qingying sneered: "It's just a blind cat catching a dead mouse."

The guards went to investigate.

Before long, several guards hurriedly returned.

It's true!

"King Maple Blossom is imprisoned in the dungeon!"

"His head was covered and he was put in magic-suppressing shackles, but the king has now rescued him!"

Soon, a disheveled man, but with eyes full of anger, walked out from outside the hall.

He was escorted by two strong guards.

When he entered the palace, all the palace guards knelt on one knee and bowed to King Fenghua.

"king!"

"It is our fault!"

King Fenghua walked straight to the throne.

Looking at the shapeshifter's corpse.

His expression was complicated.

He remained silent for a long time, then looked at Lu Cang and the others.

His eyes showed obvious gratitude.

"Great adventurers, thank you for your help."

"If it weren't for you, I don't know how long I would have stayed in that dark and sunless dungeon."

"It's hard to imagine if I'll go crazy if things continue like this."

Nigeronzi expressed his sincere gratitude to Lu Cang and others.

"I will deliver the agreed-upon reward as promised."

"In addition, to thank you for your help, I will prepare generous gifts for all of you adventurers."

"I will ask the best craftsman in my city to skin this shapeshifter and craft it into magical items to give to everyone."

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You have completed the unique hidden mission – The Imposter.

[Mission Objective: Locate the imposter disguised within the city lord's mansion and eliminate him.]

[Hidden Side Objective: Find the true Maple King, who has been hidden by the "False King"]

[Mission Rewards: Shapeshifting Mask (Delayed Reward), Four-Star Skill Book (Unique Skill) - Brilliant Flash, Brilliant Flash Skill Crystal]

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In reality, even if you receive the letter, the normal process would just result in a simple delivery reward, and then it would end there.

The "false king" would naturally not entrust the adventurers with the task of finding the shapeshifters.

If adventurers open the letter themselves, they can obtain some special information from it.

However, it is impossible to directly enter the city lord's mansion through this opened letter.

Catching the shapeshifter is naturally even more difficult.

There are multiple ways to complete and trigger tasks in the fantasy world.

You can even skip a lot of intermediate steps and directly achieve your final goal and obtain the final reward.

In fact, tasks don't always have to be completed; sometimes, failing a task can lead to a better outcome.

After completing the mission, you will serve as the team leader.

The reward was directly deposited into Lu Cang's backpack.

Delayed rewards mean that you will not receive them immediately upon completing the task; you will have to wait for a period of time to claim them.

"A four-star mage skill, Lux's ultimate, Lulu, you can use it perfectly."

As a game that was popular a few years ago, IoI's skills were often used by people to refer to the skills in Fantasy World.

Lu Cang traded the skill book and skill crystal to Bai Lu.

A free-to-play player can learn all class skills, but can only learn skills from the one-star skill tree.

This is a very significant limitation.

Of course, this only applies to the most basic casual player professions.

If you can get the only job advancement for a free-to-play character, that's a different story.

Therefore, Lu Cang has not learned any of his three-star skill books yet and can only keep them.

Bai Lu felt somewhat flattered to receive a four-star skill from her brother.

A four-star unique skill; even in the first-tier region, a skill of this caliber would be fiercely sought after.

Four-star skills require discovering hidden quests within the illusionary realm, and these quests are extremely difficult with a high probability of failure.

Even if the skill you ultimately acquire is not for your profession, you won't easily give it away.

Skill crystals are even more valuable items that can directly increase the level of the corresponding skill by 1 level.

One four-star skill crystal is equivalent to saving four skill points.

"Adventurers."

"Thank you again for saving me, but I have to trouble you again."

"If evil is left unchecked, Maple City may face an unprecedented crisis."

"It just so happens that there's an assassin in your team."

"Perhaps we can find the [Chaotic Shadow Meteorite Iron], which can be used to forge a weapon specifically for the assassin."

Upon hearing the city lord's words, Leng Qingying's ears immediately perked up.

Lu Cang kept one eye open and the other closed.

At this moment, Leng Qingying's attention was entirely focused on this slovenly city lord.

The city lord then took out a key inlaid with a ruby.

"This key can open the deepest room in the Black Crystal Mine of Blackwater Creek."

"I've received intelligence that there's an evil necromancer inside the mine, who is awakening a powerful undead army."

"If he summons the undead army, our Maple City will be devastated."

"You must stop his plot."

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[Accept the quest - Stop the deadly plot?]

[Mission Objective: Go to the Black Crystal Mine (Insane Difficulty), kill the necromancer in the deepest room, and prevent him from completing the undead resurrection ritual]

[Mission Failed: The Undead Ritual Reawakens, the Legion of the Dead Descends]

[Quest Completion Rewards: Chaotic Shadow Meteorite (possibly), 4-Star Skill Book: Death Dance, Title: Hero of Maple City, A Castle (Guild Base)]

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Lu Cang is an assassin who has lived three lifetimes.

Even if the rewards for guild challenge missions no longer include exclusive weapons, Lu Cang still knows where to obtain the assassin's exclusive weapon.

This is also why Lu Cang dared to make a promise to Leng Qingying.

In addition, Lu Cang also knew how to upgrade Leng Qingying's talent to SS level.

In fact, the reason I obtained the activation code for SS-level talent in my previous life (the third life) was because I learned it from Leng Qingying in my second life.

After upgrading an S-level talent to an SS-level talent, you can also obtain a corresponding activation code.

After the talent owner dies, the talent can be obtained by the next player through an activation code.