Chapter 232 Two-Star Shop!

In a quiet reception room, Shi Feng looked incredulously at the last line on the shop list.

Two-star shop!

There were indeed some two-star shops in Thunder Axe City, but they were not something players could buy if they wanted to. Not to mention the Barons of Thunder Axe City, even Viscounts might not be able to buy them, and it depended on luck and accumulation.

"Could it be the reward for being the first to purchase a high-level shop?" Shi Feng thought, not believing that the Bronze Inheritor had such a high status that he could directly purchase a two-star shop. The reward for being the first was highly likely.

For other large neutral cities, one-star and two-star shops didn't matter, but in Thunder Axe City, the difference between a one-star shop and a two-star shop was like the difference between a small town and a city.

This was entirely due to the different levels of attraction to NPCs. Two-star shops were more valuable and trustworthy in the eyes of NPCs, so they would choose shops with higher star ratings when doing business.

In addition, the scale was different. This scale not only referred to the size of the shop, but also represented the maximum transaction amount that could be conducted with NPCs each time. This was also why NPCs chose high-star shops.

A one-star shop could only conduct transactions with NPCs for less than 50 gold coins each time, but a two-star shop could conduct transactions for less than 300 gold coins, a direct increase of six times. Coupled with the fact that more NPCs were willing to do business, the difference in between was considerable.

Therefore, two-star high-level shops in Thunder Axe City were very precious. In the previous life, many guilds dreamed of buying one, but very few could buy one. They could only invest a lot of resources and time to slowly upgrade a one-star shop to a two-star shop.

But a step slow meant every step was slow…

For major guilds, the main goal of wanting to directly purchase a two-star shop was for a three-star shop. In NPC cities, the number of high-level shops of three stars and above, including three stars, was limited.

When a two-star shop reached the standard for promotion to three stars, it had to surpass the existing three-star shops to become a true three-star shop in Thunder Axe City, and the surpassed three-star shop would become a two-star shop…

A three-star shop was a qualitative change compared to a two-star shop. The transaction amount each time directly increased to one thousand gold coins. Although the increase in multiples was not as much as from one star to two stars, it was a watershed.

Because after reaching this amount of money, the nobles of Thunder Axe City would start doing business with the shop. The items in the hands of the nobles were not comparable to ordinary NPCs. They were all precious and good things.

It took a lot of time and resources to upgrade from a one-star shop to a two-star shop in Thunder Axe City. By the time a one-star shop was promoted to a two-star shop, the two-star shop purchased early would probably have become a three-star shop. After that, it would be very difficult to snatch one from the limited number of three-star shops in Thunder Axe City.

This was why the Underworld Guild only had a two-star shop in Thunder Axe City in the previous life. It was impossible to snatch a three-star shop. As far as Shi Feng knew, only super forces and a few top-tier guilds had done it. Ordinary top-tier guilds did not have the ability to snatch one.

Now that he could directly purchase a two-star shop from the start, how could Shi Feng not be surprised?

Moreover, this two-star shop was a blacksmith shop. Among all kinds of shops, this was one of the most valuable shops for guilds, much better than grocery stores and restaurants.

The reason for this was simply because NPCs did different business with different shops. NPCs came to the blacksmith shop to customize weapons and equipment, and they all brought their own materials. This allowed them to directly obtain rare forging materials. In addition, ordinary NPCs and NPC merchants would often sell the ore in their hands to the blacksmith shop, making the blacksmith shop a good place to obtain rare ore.

"Respected Bronze Inheritor, are there any plots of land or shops here that you like?" The beautiful elf looked at Shi Feng, who hadn't spoken for a long time, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "If there aren't any here, you can come back next week. There should be a new batch of people who want to sell them by then."

"No, I'm very satisfied. I want these five plots of land and these two shops." Shi Feng pointed to the plots of land in the inner area and the shops in the outer area on the list.

Because he currently only had the status of Baron, the plots of land he could buy were in the outer area and the inner area, and the inner area gave very few plots of land. It was already very good to be able to buy them. As for the high-level shops in the inner area, only Viscounts were qualified to buy them.

However, it was precisely because of this that Shi Feng breathed a sigh of relief. If it was a high-level shop in the inner area, the money he had with him now would probably only be enough to buy a two-star blacksmith shop.

But even so, a two-star blacksmith shop in the outer area cost as much as 90,000 gold coins, and the other one-star magic potion shop he bought cost 47,000 gold coins.

"Okay, five plots of land and two shops cost a total of 206,000 gold coins!" The beautiful elf quickly calculated the total price and said happily.

If the high-level executives of a top-tier guild saw Shi Feng spending 200,000 gold coins to buy two shops in the outer area and five plots of land in the inner area in a neutral city, they would probably think Shi Feng was crazy. With so much money, they could buy more than ten plots of land in the central area of any royal city.

However, Shi Feng paid all the money without saying a word, or rather, it was a matter of course. This kind of thing could not be seen in the early stages, but the effect became more obvious as it went on.

Shi Feng had only brought a little more than 170,000 gold coins, and he had spent more than 20,000 gold coins in Glory Stone Fortress. Fortunately, during the time he was doing the task, even though the guild was constantly expanding, it still accumulated more than 70,000 gold coins, barely enough to pay, but he didn't have much money left.

In a short while, the beautiful elf took out seven land deeds and handed them to Shi Feng. After Shi Feng looked at them and confirmed that there were no problems, he went directly to the two high-level shops in the outer area and deposited 5,000 gold coins in each of them to do business with NPCs in exchange for various resources. Then, he did not stay in Thunder Axe City for long and directly used a city return scroll to leave Thunder Axe City and return to White River City.

At this time, Shi Feng returned to White River City. White River City was not as deserted as Shi Feng had imagined. After all, Zero Wing had temporarily withdrawn from the battle for Witch Hill, and its prestige in Star-Moon Kingdom had declined a lot, but when he walked on the street, more players came to White River City instead.

Among the players on the road, there were many players from major guilds, all of whom were actively running around in the city, and the number was quite amazing, accounting for about 10% of the players on the street.

White River City was now a big city with a population of tens of millions, and accounting for about 10% was as many as a million.

"Melancholy, has anything happened in White River City recently? Why are so many people from other guilds coming to White River City?" Shi Feng returned to Candlelight Trading Firm, stored the obtained Titan ore, and asked Melancholic Smile.

"Nothing has happened in White River City recently." Melancholic Smile said with a wry smile, "So many people from major guilds are coming now entirely because our guild lost a lot in the battle with Starlight Alliance for Witch Hill, and then withdrew from the battle for Witch Hill. Moreover, Starlight Alliance has already released news that they will have a full-scale war with our Zero Wing Guild in Witch Hill. If our people don't dare to fight, they won't let go of any players coming out of Zero Wing City. Now, all of our guild members are fighting with the people of Starlight Alliance in various parts of Star-Moon Kingdom, but the results are not ideal. Therefore, the major guilds in Star-Moon Kingdom feel that this is an opportunity to compete for White River City, and they have sent people over to prepare in advance."

"These guilds… they really won't let go of even a sliver of opportunity." Shi Feng couldn't help but shake his head, "Since this Starlight Alliance wants to have a life-and-death battle in Witch Hill, then I'll help them! Immediately notify Aqua Rose and have her immediately organize a thousand Tier 2 Shield Warrior and Berserker members to gather at the White River City residence!"

"I'll go notify her now." Melancholic Smile nodded.