Chapter 1 System Notification

Shi Feng immediately chose to upgrade Zero Wing City upon hearing the system notification.

System: Upgrading to a main city requires 500,000 gold coins and 200,000 magic crystals. Do you want to pay?

"Pay!"

Shi Feng wasn't surprised, as he had already prepared the required gold coins and magic crystals in his bag.

The moment Shi Feng agreed to pay, 500,000 gold coins and 200,000 magic crystals disappeared from his bag, and a series of system notifications rang in his ears again.

System: Payment complete. All Zero Wing City players will be teleported outside the city in three minutes. The estimated upgrade time is two hours.

Zero Wing City Regional System Announcement: Zero Wing City will be upgraded to a main city-level guild city. All players will be forcibly teleported out of Zero Wing City in three minutes. Please prepare for teleportation.

However, Zero Wing City, with a population of less than one million, instantly erupted with exclamations and disbelief on the streets.

"What's going on? Upgrading to a main city?"

"Zero Wing City isn't even an advanced large guild city. How can it be upgraded to a main city-level guild city all of a sudden?"

"What exactly did Zero Wing do to upgrade to a main city-level guild city?"

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The free players and members of various forces active in Zero Wing City were stunned by the news of Zero Wing City's upgrade to a main city.

Especially the members of the major forces, who felt that the system was simply joking with them.

Ordinary players may not know what a main city is, but members of the major forces are well aware of how difficult it is for a guild city to be promoted to a main city. It's extremely difficult even to be promoted to an intermediate city. This requires a lot of manpower and resources, continuous operation of the guild city, increasing the guild city's reputation, and improving the guild city's defense level, among other things.

It's not something that can be done with just one or two things.

Zero Wing had announced that it wasn't very active externally and had significantly increased the entrance fee, so the city's prosperity and reputation had greatly declined. Not to mention upgrading to a main city, it wasn't even possible to become an intermediate city.

Now, to suddenly tell them that Zero Wing City will be upgraded to a guild main city... how could anyone believe it?

But even if the players in Zero Wing City didn't believe it, the system's countdown didn't stop. It just ticked by, second by second, until three minutes later, all the players in Zero Wing City were directly teleported outside Zero Wing City. Only when they stood foolishly outside the city did they truly realize that all of this was real...

And this shocking news quickly spread to the ears of the major forces in the Star-Moon Kingdom, and they were all shocked.

While the major super forces in God's Domain hadn't even upgraded a single intermediate guild city yet, Zero Wing had already created a guild main city. It had to be said that this was too amazing.

"Guild Leader, what exactly did you do?" Liang Jing, who received the news in Silverwing Town, immediately contacted Shi Feng and asked, "Why did Zero Wing City suddenly upgrade to a main city?"

The currently booming Silverwing Town was still a long way from being upgraded to an advanced large guild city. It was hard to imagine that the unpopular Zero Wing City would take the lead in upgrading to a guild main city.

Currently, Zero Wing not only had a severe shortage of weapons and equipment, but the guild town's revenue was also constantly decreasing. Especially after confronting the major super forces, various economic blockades made it so that even Silverwing Town, with its Teleportation Hall, couldn't attract many adventure teams due to the pressure from the major super forces.

If it hadn't been for the large sum of gold coins they had received from Chi Di and Zhan Hun Bu Luo, Zero Wing probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until now. After all, the cost of maintaining a guild city was far greater than before the system upgrade. Just the NPC guards alone cost a lot of money, and there were also the maintenance costs for various city buildings and city magic arrays, which were costs that absolutely didn't exist before the system upgrade.

Now, because of the battle at the Secret Covenant Tower, the blockade of Zero Wing by the major super forces in God's Domain had been somewhat lifted, but the suppression was still ongoing, and it was obvious that they hated Zero Wing. And since the major super forces were distributed throughout God's Domain, even if Zero Wing could occupy the Secret Covenant Tower, it would still take a considerable amount of time to have enough manpower to conquer all sides.

In the eyes of the major super forces, Zero Wing's combat power was indeed astonishing, even surpassing the five super guilds, but Zero Wing could only hold on to this point, which still couldn't be changed. Therefore, the major super forces were not afraid of Zero Wing at all, and continued to suppress them economically.

But if a guild had a main city, that would be truly amazing.

Not to mention that a main city-level guild city was far larger than a guild city and could easily accommodate tens of millions of people, the high-end buildings that could only appear in a main city were incomparable to those in a guild city.

And the key was not this, but that any guild city that reached the main city level meant absolute security. Just the number of NPC guards that could be recruited could reach 30,000, giving it the authority to rule over a region.

This authority was very powerful in God's Domain, as it meant that 30,000 guards could go out of the city to fight, which meant that the entire map was completely under the control of the guild main city.

It could be said that as long as they had a guild main city, Zero Wing could completely open up Zero Wing City and allow NPCs to enter freely, and those NPC forces wouldn't dare to cause trouble. Right now, there was nothing more important than this for a guild city.

"It's a secret." Shi Feng smiled and said, "But you can also prepare. After the main city upgrade is complete, I will also fully open up Zero Wing City. At the same time, I will build a Teleportation Hall in Zero Wing City to connect Tianquan City and Zero Wing City. You will be in charge of managing Zero Wing City, while Youyu Weixiao will be in charge of managing Silverwing Town."

"Let me manage Zero Wing City?" Liang Jing was slightly surprised. "But isn't Youyu Weixiao always in White River City? Wouldn't it be more convenient to let Youyu Weixiao directly take over Zero Wing City?"

Shi Feng shook his head and slowly said, "No, after Zero Wing City is upgraded, I plan to move Zero Wing City to a neutral map, which is very far from the Star-Moon Kingdom. Youyu Weixiao is already very busy managing Candlelight Trading Firm in the Star-Moon Kingdom, and she can't take care of Zero Wing City at the same time. It's good enough if she can take care of Silverwing Town."

As an advanced forging master, Youyu Weixiao not only had to manage Candlelight Trading Firm on a regular basis, but also had to strive to become a forging grandmaster. If she had to manage a guild main city on top of that, she probably wouldn't even have time to sleep. After all, a guild main city was very different from a guild city, and the amount of work was completely different.

Even just recruiting 30,000 NPC guards would be enough to make someone work until they vomited blood, not to mention assigning daily tasks to these NPC guards, constantly adjusting the weapon and equipment configuration of these 30,000 NPCs, and promoting those NPCs who performed well and improved their strength...

As the guild leader of his previous life, he was all too aware of how tiring it was to manage a guild main city.

In his previous life, it was precisely because he was distracted by managing numerous guild issues and improving his strength at the same time that he, who was not particularly talented, couldn't even advance to a Tier 4 class. Therefore, in this life, he left these matters to others and focused on improving himself. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the combat power he has now.

"You're going to move Zero Wing City?" Liang Jing's breathing became a little rapid upon hearing this.

Just a guild main city was astonishing enough. If they could move Zero Wing City to another neutral map, Zero Wing would make a fortune.

"Yes, so you need to be prepared. You'll probably be very busy later." Shi Feng nodded, his eyes flashing with a hint of anticipation.

Currently, Zero Wing has three major guild cities: Stone Forest City in the Dark Night Empire, Silverwing Town in the Orc Empire, and Zero Wing City, the original guild city located in the Star-Moon Kingdom.

Stone Forest City and Silverwing Town are located in very important locations and cannot be easily moved, because Stone Forest City has to prevent the invasion of the Dark World, and Silverwing Town is a barrier to block the Holy-Crested Legion. Therefore, neither city can be moved.

The only one left is Zero Wing City, which has little value in the Star-Moon Kingdom and does not need to restrain any other forces, making it the best choice.

Two hours later, a brand-new Zero Wing City reappeared before everyone's eyes.

But before everyone could take a look, Shi Feng had already arrived at the core control room of the City Lord's Mansion and poured 5,000 magic crystals into the World Source, directly moving Zero Wing City to a level 140 neutral map, leaving the vast number of players who hadn't had time to appreciate Zero Wing City completely stunned...