Chapter 1 The Promotion

As Shi Feng clicked the promotion button displayed by the system, a system announcement suddenly rang in his ears.

[Orc Empire Region System Announcement: Congratulations to Silverwing Town for becoming the first intermediate town in a neutral map! Rewarding the town with an increase of 10,000 points of fame and obtaining a Caravan Guard Token.]

[Silverwing Town Region System Announcement: Silverwing Town needs to be upgraded. All players will be teleported out of the town in one minute.]

[Silverwing Town Region System Announcement: It will take half an hour for Silverwing Town to be promoted to an intermediate town. Please wait patiently.]

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The three system announcements were issued three times in a row, echoing in the ears of all players.

“No way! It’s been promoted! Silverwing Town has been promoted so quickly!”

“What exactly did the Zero Wing Guild do?”

“Awesome! We'll be blessed after this promotion!”

For a time, the players in Silverwing Town were in an uproar, discussing the rapid promotion of Silverwing Town. The higher-ups of the major guilds, however, had grim expressions.

The tempting prospect of Silverwing Town had already stirred the hearts of the major forces, who were contemplating how to seize it. However, Silverwing Town's defenses were increasing day by day, and the recruited NPC guards were becoming more and more powerful. Especially after witnessing the power of the magic towers, they felt that their current strength was somewhat insufficient and needed to accumulate more.

But now that Silverwing Town had been promoted to an intermediate town, it was a major problem.

This was not only because Silverwing Town could build more defensive structures, but more importantly, the town's NPC guards could increase from the original quota of one thousand to two thousand, effectively doubling the town's defenses.

NPC guards were much stronger than players in terms of basic attributes, and their levels were generally very high, more than ten levels above the current players, making them difficult to deal with. They were usually entangled with a sea of people tactics.

Now that the guards had doubled, it meant that it would take twice the manpower to make Silverwing Town even harder to capture.

Not long after the system announcement, all the players in Silverwing Town were teleported out, standing outside the town. However, none of them left. Instead, players leveling up in the Orc Empire were rushing towards Silverwing Town.

The news of Silverwing Town's promotion quickly reached the ears of the major superpowers.

“Zero Wing Guild's actions are quite fast, but unfortunately, promoting Silverwing Town at this time no longer has much meaning.” Yuan Tiexin sighed slightly as he looked at the information he had just received.

“Uncle Yuan, now that Silverwing Town has been promoted to an intermediate town, it can accommodate more players, doubling the Zero Wing Guild's income. How can it be meaningless?” Zi Qiong asked curiously.

“It's normal for you not to know. I only received the news yesterday that the Nine Dragons Emperor of Dragon Phoenix Pavilion, in secret alliance with Blackwater and Beast Emperor, has already prepared to capture Scarlet Flame Fortress in the Orc Empire.” Yuan Tiexin said slowly, “This Scarlet Flame Fortress is located on a major transportation route in the inner region of the Orc Empire, which is a relatively safe route to the Orcish Royal City. With the fortress's own teleportation ability, they will not only be able to earn a lot of wealth, but also be able to conquer the Orcish Royal City faster.”

“No way, that's Scarlet Flame Fortress! Among the many fortresses we investigated, the difficulty of conquering it ranks at least in the top five. It's really too difficult to conquer with the current players, let alone with dark players obstructing it. They dare to conquer it?” Zi Qiong couldn't help but be shocked.

The number of orcs inside Scarlet Flame Fortress was as numerous as the hairs on an ox. The lowest level was 60, and the highest level reached 75. There were even legendary-ranked orcs guarding it. In addition, the fortress itself had many war weapons. Those weapons had no problem dealing with mythical monsters. It was simply not a place that the current players could conquer.

“That's why they joined forces with the Beast Emperor. The Beast Emperor uses the Evil Beast Army to guard the surrounding area, while also helping the armies of Blackwater and the Nine Dragons Emperor to conquer it together. If those dark guilds and dark players want to stop them, they will have to face the Evil Beast Army, so naturally no one is willing to obstruct them.” Yuan Tiexin explained, “As long as they capture Scarlet Flame Fortress, the status of Silverwing Town will become awkward.”

The Orcish Royal City's regional dungeon was only preliminarily investigated, but the resources inside were found to be beyond imagination. Not only were there a large number of magic crystals, but the leveling speed was also at least 50% faster than the outside world. The most important thing was the Orcish Royal City itself, which was an intermediate city that could be occupied.

If they could get this intermediate city, it would be no less than obtaining a magic crystal mine, and they would not need to send a large number of people to guard it for a long time.

If Blackwater and the Nine Dragons Emperor obtained the Orcish Royal City, they would obtain a large number of resources, and destroying Silverwing Town would be a piece of cake. Even the Zero Wing Guild in Star-Moon Kingdom would be in danger.

Because the Beast Emperor had forged an irreconcilable feud with the Zero Wing Guild. Not to mention that many of the Beast Emperor's foundations were in Star-Moon Kingdom, requiring him to obtain Star-Moon Kingdom, just the five important slots in the Beast Emperor's hands that they knew about were forcibly taken away by Shi Feng, affecting the Beast Emperor's future development. He was afraid that he would never rest until the Zero Wing Guild was destroyed.

If the Beast Emperor obtained a large number of resources, it would not be impossible to conquer the entire Star-Moon Kingdom, let alone the Zero Wing Guild.

“Uncle Yuan, why don't we notify the Zero Wing Guild now?” Zi Qiong said.

“Forget it. Even if we notify the Zero Wing Guild, they won't be able to do anything. Even if the Zero Wing Guild's main force showed powerful combat power in the Eclipse Gate, the current situation of the Zero Wing Guild will not change because of this. That is, they have more than enough to protect themselves, but not enough to attack. This is also the biggest problem for all new forces without any background.” Yuan Tiexin shook his head. “If Zero Wing had agreed to become our Heavenly Secret Pavilion's partner, we might have been able to stop it. Now, relying on themselves, even with Feng Qianyu's full assistance, it is impossible.”

In God's Domain, many new forces are rising every day, but these new forces have a major flaw, which is that they don't know the immensity of heaven and earth. Although Zero Wing Guild is one of the best among them, it is not so easy to rise to the top, because countless other forces will find ways to step on them and use them to rise to the top.

Meanwhile, in Silverwing Town, Orc Empire.

After half an hour of waiting, the new Silverwing Town was presented in front of everyone.

Compared to the previous Silverwing Town, the current Silverwing Town's area has directly doubled, and it is also much closer to the Ancient Divine Relic. It can be said that the Ancient Divine Relic has already enveloped the magic tower's attack range. In addition to being larger, as a town in a neutral map, the original city wall built is also much higher than before, as high as six or seven meters. The divine inscriptions engraved on the wall not only make it impossible for players to climb over, but also greatly increase the defense.

“Guild Leader, look quickly, the buildings inside the town have changed so much. They are completely different from before.” Melancholy Smile stared at the tall buildings, her small mouth wide open.

The buildings in the town now are uniformly much taller, and all the buildings have obviously been upgraded as a whole. It already looks like a small city, not a small town.

“Yes, let everyone prepare and reopen Silverwing Town.” Shi Feng nodded.

He had built Silverwing Town extremely luxuriously before, just for this moment. This can also be considered a secret of building a neutral town.