TOP SECRET: Adventures in the Dark Continent

While Liu Yang was busy in Everguard City...

Somewhere very far from the Khisal Kingdom...

The location was on the other side of the Xinia Continent, if the Khisal Kingdom was on one extremity, that location was on the other extremity.

The golden sands completely cover the continent together with an infernal heat. But there was no sun on the Xinia Continent, how could there be the heat?

The heat in this immense desert came from underground.

The size of the desert was so large that if one looked from space, it was possible to see that it was as big as a large country. The name of this place was the Western Empire.

The Western Empire is where the Assassins League is located. This country is where the supreme base of the league is located.

As a large island in the middle of the ocean, the only way to get there was by ship or airship. There were no transport stones.

The vast golden sand desert covers one hundred percent of the kingdom, but there were some places with a little forest and crystal clear waters, those places were the paradises within that hell.

The cities were all made of white stone to avoid the heat, the population of this kingdom lives the heaviest among the nine kingdoms.

As there was not much water in the kingdom, the war for this resource was constant. People who are born with some water-related skill are treated like gods, as they can give water to the population or village.

Although it seems calm, the desert is covered by hidden dangers because the creatures live inside the sand and rarely come out, unless there is prey nearby.

As in other kingdoms, The Western Empire also has a hierarchy system, but they were not like the nobles or the like.

The country is a great desert, they were divided into tribes instead of noble families. The hierarchy was slave, servant, ordinary citizen, warrior, war chief, and elder.

Each of them had a different task within the tribe, but it was like a society like any other.

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Somewhere in this vast golden sands desert ...

Underneath the desert was a large and majestic underground city.

The place had millions of people living there, but most of them had strange and sinister auras.

Like a city any other, the place had shops, malls, slave markets, and all other types of common things. But there was one thing that this city was different from the others, murder.

Looking at various locations in the city, we can see people killing each other openly. Nobody intervened and just looked with happy eyes. The killing scenes seemed to be great fun for others.

This is one of the Assassins League's cities. The name of the city was Strong City because to survive in the city, one must be strong, the weak will be killed.

Seventy percent of the population was an assassin or something like that, the rest were ordinary people who worked in ordinary jobs like salespeople, maids, waiters, and among other things.

If everyone on the scene were an assassin, who would do the common jobs?

The Assassins League had a form of management similar to the Adventurers Agency, as they had missions to complete.

A customer posts a mission, those who are interested can take the mission. But when it had more than one interested group, it was a problem.

The only way to solve this problem was an agreement.

The two sides can accept to work together or they can make a dispute to see who will take the mission.

Overall, the Strong City was like a city like any other, but its population was assassins.

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Going to a certain place in the city ...

We can see that there was a large and luxurious mansion and covered with white and blue crystals. The crystals shine and the places around them are frozen. These crystals had freezing effects.

Because of the intense heat, everyone had to have some way of cooling off.

The infernal heat comes from the bottom of the country, but until now, nobody has been able to understand why magma under the big island.

In the areas around the mansion, there were several types of fountains spouting water and green plants. This was to ease the heat.

However, to do this kind of thing, people with skills related to water or elemental crystals are used. This type of person was highly sought after within the city, they were paid well to be squirting water from time to time.

At the entrance to the mansion, a large symbol was drawn. A hand holding a skull. This is the symbol of one of the famous assassins groups within the Assassins League. They were from the Death Hands Group.

In the center of the conference hall, a group was already assembled.

Looking at each one, we can see that the most influential members of the group were of all kinds of ages. Young, adults, and the elderly.

One of them got up and greeted everyone.

"We are meeting here again to talk about the missions that our members have taken recently, but some of them have failed. The purpose of this meeting is to talk about those who have failed." The middle-aged man announced.

"Debate on those who failed? Why should we do this? Those members were weak because that's what they died" A muscular young man commented arrogantly.

For him, if an assassin fails to kill his target, it proves that the assassin was not strong and skilled enough. Death was just an expected result.

"Well… Zaros, why did you decide to talk about this at the meeting? Did our members have a problem?" Another member asked.

Zaros was the middle-aged man who spoke first, he was a member of the blood race.

"Yes. We sent three members on a mission, they went along with two members of the Flying Dagger Group and an independent assassin. But it looks like four died and the other two are alive, but we don't know if they were captured as captives or not" Zaros replied.

"Wait. We sent three members of our group along with another group of idiots, but did they still fail? This is a shame for our group. We should have sent only our members, we cannot trust other groups. The two survivors must have done something to stay alive. They may even have left our members to death" The young man commented angrily.

"We still don't know what happens during the assassination attempt. The two members who survived belong to the Flying Daggers group, they must know what may have happened." Zaros commented.

"Fuck. They must have planned against us. That group of bastards" The young man was very rash.

"Tibarn, you need to calm down. We don't even know what really happened. We cannot accuse others that way" Another member commented.

"Well ... Zaros, who was their target?" That question attracted the attention of others

"Hawk River, but also as Garett in the Temore Kingdom. Or Allston in the Khisal Kingdom "