Chapter 1 Stone Forest City

The emergence of Stone Forest City instantly alarmed the players throughout the entire Death Forest.

What was once a small Stone Forest Town, occupying only a small portion of the magic barrier, had now transformed into Stone Forest City, occupying nearly half of it.

Although the upgraded city walls were the most ordinary type, they still stood over six meters tall, enveloping the entire Stone Forest City. Combined with the divine inscriptions etched onto the walls, players were simply unable to scale them unless they destroyed them. Otherwise, players could only enter and exit through the city gates, making its defenses incomparable to guild towns.

Moreover, after the upgrade, Stone Forest City not only possessed sturdy city walls, but even the buildings inside had undergone significant changes. In particular, Zero Wing's residence, a magnificent guild hall over sixty meters tall, resembled a mountain, easily visible from thousands of yards away in the Death Forest.

Besides Zero Wing's guild hall, the Zero Wing Auction House experienced the greatest improvement.

The Zero Wing Auction House was already an advanced building, but after Stone Forest Town was upgraded to Stone Forest City, the entire advanced auction house revealed its original form.

A twelve-story building stood tall on the main street, its scale even surpassing that of auction houses in ordinary NPC cities.

Furthermore, not only the auction house, but even the other buildings on the streets had also been greatly improved.

"Stone Forest City is too prosperous!" Purple Jade stared at the towering buildings before her, almost unable to believe her eyes.

Guild cities in God's Domain were rarely seen by ordinary players, but as a core member of Heaven's Secret Pavilion, she had seen quite a few, even personally investigated them.

However, compared to the guild cities she had seen, Stone Forest City was clearly much stronger, even more magnificent than Zero Wing's own Zero Wing City, completely unlike a new city.

Not only was Purple Jade surprised, but Feng Shui Yi Lao, who had accompanied her, was also dumbfounded.

The development of a guild city was a gradual process, as had been thoroughly proven by the information they had obtained from Heaven's Secret Pavilion, but Stone Forest City completely defied the rules...

"Although I don't know what's going on, the fact that Stone Forest City has reached this level greatly increases our chances of holding it," Yuan Tiexin said, glancing at the towering buildings. He immediately instructed, "Immediately notify headquarters and have them rush over via temporary teleportation. We must complete the defensive arrangements in Stone Forest City before the major super forces arrive."

In God's Domain, the more prosperous a guild city was, the better the NPC guards it could hire. The extent of the city's construction was a major indicator of its prosperity.

In this way, Stone Forest City would have a significant advantage over other new cities in the initial recruitment of NPC guards. After all, there was a huge difference between recruiting Tier 2 NPCs and Tier 1 NPCs, especially since the combat power of Tier 2 NPC guards in the city would also be affected by the city's prosperity. The more prosperous the city, the higher their combat level.

In the earliest upgraded guild cities, the combat level of the Tier 2 NPCs inside was comparable to that of experts in the later stages of the fifth floor of the Trial Tower. Coupled with the fact that NPCs were inherently superior in attributes and also had higher levels, killing Tier 2 expert players was as easy as playing a game.

Perhaps Stone Forest City could not yet allow its NPC guards to display the strength of the later stages of the fifth floor of the Trial Tower like those old cities, but it should have no problem displaying the strength of the early stages of the fifth floor, or even the middle stages.

A group of Tier 2 NPC guards like that would be a considerable fighting force.

This was why the major super forces were fighting so desperately right now.

Stone Forest City had only just been upgraded, and its defenses in all aspects were at their weakest. If they waited until it was fully developed, the price they would have to pay to take it down would be ten or even dozens of times greater.

As for the question of how Stone Forest City could be so prosperous after the upgrade, which Yuan Tiexin and the others were curious about, Shi Feng did not explain. He simply smiled and walked directly into Stone Forest City through the main gate.

If a normal advanced town was upgraded to a beginner city, it would indeed be like the guild cities upgraded by other guilds, at most just increasing in area and adding a tall city wall.

However, Stone Forest City was upgraded using a Gold Upgrade Order, so after the upgrade, it would also strengthen all the buildings in the city. This could be said to be a hidden bonus of the Upgrade Order.

As the others followed Shi Feng into Stone Forest City, not only were the members of Heaven's Secret Pavilion stunned, but even the members of Zero Wing revealed ecstatic expressions, as if they had gone mad.

Stone Forest City was currently under the effect of the Mana Towers, but the concentration of mana in the city was unbelievably high, more than twice as high as in the previous Stone Forest Town...

It should be known that Stone Forest Town had already become a cultivation paradise in the hearts of everyone, allowing players' senses to improve by 10% and doubling their training efficiency, but now it was allowing their senses to improve by more than 15%.

It seemed like only a 5% increase, but it should be known that the higher the player's senses, the harder it was to improve them, and the greater the help it would provide to the player. A 5% improvement would at least improve their efficiency by another 20% or 30%.

"If ordinary players train here, they would probably become experts on the fifth floor of the Trial Tower in less than a month," Purple Jade said, her breathing becoming rapid as she felt the effects here.

An ordinary player might not clearly understand how difficult it was for an ordinary player to reach the fifth floor of the Trial Tower, or how much time and effort it would take, but as a force like Heaven's Secret Pavilion, they had done big data analysis and specifically studied how players could improve.

Normally speaking, even a player with decent talent would need two or three months to reach the fifth floor of the Trial Tower from an ordinary player's level, let alone other ordinary players.

But here, Purple Jade was almost certain that as long as ordinary players worked hard enough, reaching the fifth floor of the Trial Tower within a month was almost certain.

After all, improving one's senses was equivalent to indirectly lowering the difficulty of learning. Perhaps learning university knowledge was not easy for many people, but what about lowering it to the high school level?

One could imagine how much this would help players, not to mention the major forces of God's Domain. This was the real capital for dominating God's Domain.

The reason why super forces were super forces was not only because they had strong capital, but also because they had excellent systematic training and professional research teams that could continuously cultivate experts and improve player strength.

The major super forces had spent a lot to quickly improve player strength, but the results were not ideal, and not many players could enjoy this kind of treatment. However, Stone Forest City was a natural training ground with amazing training effects and could accommodate a huge number of players.

Just the thought of an entire guild full of experts above the fifth floor of the Trial Tower would make even the current super guilds feel a chill down their spines...

Just as the members of Heaven's Secret Pavilion and Zero Wing were ecstatic about this, a huge commotion came from the forest not far from Stone Forest City, the sound echoing through most of the forest.

Three Flame Behemoths emerged from the forest, each over a hundred meters tall. The flames burning on their bodies made the surrounding space faintly distort, and their terrifying aura clearly indicated that they were Legendary monsters.

Flame War Elephant, Elemental Creature, Legendary, Level 85, HP 450 million.

In addition to these three Flame War Elephants, thousands of people emerged from the forest, each above Level 66 and wearing the emblem of the Star Ring Guild. The cold and stern man at the head was none other than Star Ring Guild's Vice Guild Leader, Chenhui.