Chapter 1 Becoming the First Lord

System: Congratulations to the player for completing the subjugation quest of the Ice Dragon Heisweite. Rewarded Lord Token, player level increased by one, Star-Moon Kingdom reputation +300, Guild Fame +10000.

System: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first Lord in God's Domain, rewarded Lord Fame +100.

System: Congratulations, Lord Fame has reached one hundred points, automatically promoted to One-Star Lord.

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The system notification sounded three times in a row. Shi Feng's level also reached 102, but the system notification also made Shi Feng stunned.

"The first to become a Lord, and the fame immediately reaches one star?" Shi Feng looked at the system notification, somewhat disbelieving.

For the current players, the term player Lord is very unfamiliar, let alone the Lord's Fame. One hundred points of Fame is not worth mentioning to those major forces who are frantically farming Guild Fame, because which guild does not need to farm tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Fame to be promoted.

However, Lords are different. Guild Fame is for a group, while Lord Fame is for individual players.

In God's Domain, it is not easy for players who are Lords to recruit NPCs and form their own Knight Orders. After all, this kind of recruitment is no different from players looking for their own direct guards. A Knight Order has as many as five thousand places. It is conceivable how difficult it is for a single player to gather five thousand knights with decent skills.

The only quick and efficient way is to increase the Lord's Fame.

The higher the Lord's Fame in God's Domain, the easier it is to recruit NPCs, and the more tempted the NPCs with high potential will be. However, it is very difficult to increase the Lord's Fame. It is not something that can be solved by doing some quests, because only some special quests will reward Lord Fame, and even if these quests are completed, the Fame rewarded will only increase by a few points.

It takes a lot of time and energy to increase to one hundred points of Fame.

And every one hundred points increase in the Lord's Fame is a watershed. Reaching one hundred points of Fame means becoming a One-Star Lord. Players no longer need to run to major NPC cities to find NPCs, they only need to recruit them at the Adventurer's Association.

These recruited NPCs may be of mixed quality, but there are also some with good potential. If you are lucky, you can even recruit a mithril-grade guard.

Of course, the level of this recruited Knight Order member will also be improved according to the Lord's Fame.

Originally, Shi Feng was still thinking about how to increase the Lord's Fame to one hundred points later. Otherwise, just recruiting Knight Order members would exhaust him to death, and it would be impossible in a few months. Now it saves a lot of time.

"Executive Lorrain, I want to recruit Knight Order members at the association." Shi Feng looked at the beautiful elf executive with the Lord Token and said.

"Okay, but issuing a recruitment order, the fee is different depending on the scope. Generally, it costs ten gold coins per town per week, one hundred gold coins per city per week, three hundred gold coins per royal city per week, and one thousand gold coins per imperial capital per week. I don't know which towns you need to issue the recruitment order in?" Executive Lorrain explained.

"It's really not cheap." Shi Feng clicked his tongue secretly, "No wonder the Adventurer's Association is known as the fourth most profitable force in God's Domain."

In the previous life, things like Lords were out of reach for second- and third-rate guilds. They were completely monopolized by major super forces and those very strong first-rate guilds, leaving nothing behind.

Now that he has become a Lord, he didn't expect that it would cost so much just to recruit a Knight Order.

You need to know that recruitment itself depends on luck. It doesn't mean that there will definitely be NPCs coming after a recruitment is issued at the Adventurer's Association. Therefore, it takes a lot of time to recruit five thousand Knight Order members with decent potential in dozens of cities alone.

Generally, it is effective to recruit in hundreds of cities. Recruiting in just over a hundred cities, which is the cities of a kingdom, costs one or two thousand gold per week. This is a considerable burden for first-rate guilds. If the speed is accelerated to recruit in four or five kingdoms, it is enough to make a first-rate guild cough up blood. It can be said that the Lord is really not something ordinary forces can afford.

"Then recruit in these cities."

Shi Feng thought for a while and quickly selected some prosperous cities in various kingdoms and empires, including the royal cities and imperial capitals of the various kingdoms and empires, a total of more than four hundred cities. The cost at one time reached 44,500 gold, which is enough to hurt the bones of the current first-rate guilds. After all, the masters of the major guilds are frantically rushing to level 100, and the guild's consumption is very large, so they can't save much money at all.

Only Zero Wing can be considered relaxed. Several major towns and Candlelight Trading Firm are frantically making money for Zero Wing, and the income is no less than those of ordinary super forces.

However, because Zero Wing also has to support the expenses of the headquarters and the Tiandou Training Hall, the entire guild is not so rich.

"It seems that we have to find a way to increase the guild's income, otherwise, with the current income, we can't support a Knight Order of five thousand people at all." After Shi Feng paid the gold coins, he also began to calculate in his heart.

A guard Knight Order of five thousand people is certainly very awesome, but the cost is also very high. This is not comparable to those NPC guards who are directly recruited in the guild town, who only need to pay a small amount of gold coins.

The Knight Order belongs to the Lord's private combat power, unlike the city's NPC guards who belong to the kingdom and empire. Without subsidies from the kingdom and empire, all expenses are paid by the players themselves. Therefore, the cost of raising a knight in the Knight Order is very high, and the price is completely different depending on the potential.

Even a second-order knight with only bronze-level skills needs fifty gold for training and wages a week. Five thousand people a week is 250,000 gold, and this does not include the issue of weapons and equipment...

Thinking of this, Shi Feng couldn't help but admire those first-rate guilds that owned territories in his previous life.

After obtaining the Lord Token, Shi Feng immediately left the Adventurer's Association and rushed directly to the Candlelight Trading Firm, preparing to start the manufacture of the Crimson Dragon Airship.

After reaching level 100, the air is the foundation of development. Whoever has air supremacy is the boss. After all, the map environment and distance after level 100 are too far. The gap between having the ability to move in the air and not having the ability to move in the air will only widen.

For large forces, there are more people, more resources, and more masters. The chance of getting a flying mount is much easier than for ordinary forces. Therefore, the gap between ordinary forces and those large forces will become larger and larger in the future.

Flying mounts are something that can only be found by chance. Even if he has a lot of experience, the flying mounts he can get are very limited. Maybe he can still lead the major super forces with his experience in the early stage, but the super forces occupy too many places and the number of masters is even more needless to say. It is only a matter of time before they catch up in the number of flying mounts. It is not something he can reverse alone.

If you really want Zero Wing to last for a long time, then airships are essential.