Chapter 1 Silverwing City

Silverwing City, Zero Wing Residence.

In the secret room, with a flash of light, Shi Feng's figure gradually appeared. Compared to logging into God's Domain as usual, Shi Feng felt a bit of dizziness this time. This dizziness lasted for several seconds before it subsided, and everything in front of him felt completely different.

If the previous God's Domain was like an extremely clear and realistic picture to the players, then the current God's Domain was a real existence in the eyes of the players. Or rather, the difference between the two was the degree of realism felt by the players, which was not on the same level at all.

"This sense of reality is really nostalgic." Shi Feng felt his own condition, and a smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

After the major upgrade of the God's Domain system, the players' feelings didn't seem to be much different, but for Shi Feng, who had been adventuring in God's Domain for ten years, it was a qualitative difference.

Before, there was always a sense of separation between the body in God's Domain and the brain, not as good as the body in reality. Now, this separation had completely disappeared.

The difference between them was 99% and 100%.

This change made no difference to ordinary players, but for master players, especially those who had reached the realm of subtle control, the gap was huge.

It was like humans and apes, whose genes differed by only about 1%, but the difference between the two was worlds apart.

Fighting in God's Domain was not like fighting in reality, because the real body was weak in all aspects, and many skills could not be displayed. It was like a child holding a giant sword weighing a thousand pounds. The physique was so small that he couldn't swing the greatsword normally at all.

But what if the quality of the body reached the point where it could easily swing the greatsword?

One could imagine how terrifying the destructive power would be, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as earth-shattering.

Afterward, Shi Feng walked out of the secret room of the residence, preparing to go to the office first to sort out the information after the major upgrade.

As Shi Feng walked out of the secret room door, a Tier 3 NPC male guard standing guard at the entrance of the secret room panicked, as if he were a frightened little rabbit, and quickly stood up straight, looking respectful.

"Good morning, sir!" The Tier 3 NPC guard respectfully saluted Shi Feng.

"Good morning." Shi Feng looked at this Tier 3 NPC guard, Flett, nodded silently, with a playful smile on his lips. "It's finally here. I wonder how chaotic the major forces in God's Domain will become afterward."

After the major upgrade of the God's Domain system, the biggest change was not the sense of reality, but the NPCs and monsters inside God's Domain.

Whether it was NPCs or monsters, they would all have their own thinking after the major system upgrade.

That's right, it was thinking, not intelligence!

So-called AI intelligence was just pre-designed data that could react rationally to players' words and deeds, without the kind of thinking. Generally, only Tier 5 and above NPCs had a little bit of thinking.

But now, even the weakest monsters and NPCs had thinking, which would make a big difference to God's Domain.

Because from a certain point of view, these NPCs and monsters were no different from real humans. When players fought with monsters or NPCs, it would become more like a real PK.

No!

To be precise, it would be more troublesome than real PK, because the monsters and NPCs in God's Domain were already used to fighting. Some monsters and individual NPCs had been fighting since birth, fighting for more than ten, or even twenty or thirty years. Their rich combat experience was simply not comparable to ordinary players who had entered God's Domain for a year or two...

However, these were not the biggest influences on God's Domain players.

What really affected players was the change in the behavior of NPCs and monsters. Not only would NPCs go to the wild to hunt monsters, but they would also compete with players for various tasks and resources from the Adventurer's Association, and even precious resources and opportunities to advance to higher tiers.

In the previous life, the emergence of this kind of thing caused major forces a headache. Not only could they no longer monopolize the resources that could originally be monopolized by the major forces, but even most of them would be snatched by NPCs and monsters...

Of course, this change was not without benefits.

For example, players who did not join any forces could team up with those NPCs to do tasks, giving solo players a lot of room to survive. In addition, resources and equipment that were previously out of reach now had a chance to be obtained.

In the underground hall, as Shi Feng left, Flett, the Tier 3 NPC guard who was originally guarding the entrance of the secret room, also breathed a deep sigh of relief.

"The lord is so strange today. He never talks to us guards usually, but today he actually said good morning to me." Flett, wearing silver-white chain armor, looked at Shi Feng's departing figure, his eyes full of doubt. "Could it be that the lord discovered that I was slacking off, so he deliberately warned me?"

Thinking of this, Flett shivered all over.

"No, I must never slack off again in the future. It's hard to find such a good job in the entire Star-Moon Kingdom. If I lose this job, I will definitely be laughed at by my former colleagues." Flett couldn't help but become vigilant, and his body stood even straighter.

The other NPC guards in the underground hall who saw Shi Feng were also privately discussing Shi Feng's strange performance today.

Because the former Shi Feng was always aloof and would never say a word to them, simply a representative of coldness and ruthlessness, but today's Shi Feng gave people a feeling of a spring breeze.

This sudden change made the guards on duty in the underground hall feel uneasy for a while.

At this time, it was not only these NPCs who felt a sense of doubt and unease, but also the players throughout God's Domain who felt a sense of surprise and doubt.

The God's Domain forums were even more abuzz with discussion.

"Why are those NPCs just like living people? They even talk about us players in private. What's going on?"

"What's that? My NPC direct guard actually asked for a day off because his wife was injured and needed to be taken care of..."

"You guys probably haven't been to the Adventurer's Association. Now those NPCs are actually taking on association tasks, and even hooking up with the beauties on my team to do tasks together..."

...

For a time, the players in God's Domain felt greatly puzzled by these changes in the NPCs. Some felt novel, some felt speechless, but more were delighted.

Such intelligent NPCs were unheard of, as if they had really come to another world. Especially when they heard those NPCs talking about them players, and those master players, they were even more excited than them players.

Some well-known master players even had fan clubs, which made those ordinary players envious.

However, for the major forces in God's Domain, it was not so interesting.

Such a sudden change was simply a death sentence for some small guilds.

Because the upgrade of the God's Domain system not only made the NPCs more intelligent, but also made the monsters in the wild more difficult to deal with. Especially those monsters above the Lord level, their rich combat experience was simply better than that of masters.

A Lord could beat a Tier 2 master of the same level, and a Great Lord could even compete with the masters among the Tier 3 classes...

These were nothing, what was really terrible was that the fixed dungeons were gone...

In God's Domain, dungeons were a stable source of equipment and materials for major forces. Many guilds would not go to conquer high-level dungeons, but would instead farm low-level dungeons to obtain various materials.

This approach was not only used by small guilds, but also by major super forces. After all, exploring high-level dungeons and dealing with those difficult dungeons would definitely cause damage to the team members, resulting in a decrease in level instead of an increase.

So everyone adopted a conservative method to obtain materials, only allowing an exploration team to fight high-difficulty dungeons, so as to ensure that they could obtain first-line weapons and equipment and materials, while also ensuring that there were a large number of basic materials for the exploration team to use.

Now it was completely different.

All fixed dungeons had disappeared completely. Now, all that could be seen were random dungeons that appeared randomly in various areas of God's Domain. These dungeons were difficult and easy, and could only be conquered once. If they were not conquered at the first time they were discovered, they would easily be conquered by others first.

This sudden change not only dumbfounded the small guilds, but also made the major super forces feel a headache.

How should the guild develop in the future?

The adventure teams in God's Domain felt even more uneasy.

Resources had become scarce, and a third-party force, the NPC force, had also appeared among the competitors. One could imagine how fierce the future competition would be. This intensity far exceeded any system update. At that time, the major super forces would probably take off their masks and start a real fight and contest.

Silverwing City, Zero Wing Residence Guild Leader's office.

"Guild Leader, everyone has arrived." Liang Jing looked at Shi Feng, who was sorting out the God's Domain information, and stepped forward to say.

"Have Aqua Rose and Bai Qingxue arrived as well?" Shi Feng couldn't help but ask.

Although Aqua Rose and Bai Qingxue and others had been out of the Time Maze for some time, their location was very special, and they couldn't communicate at all. At most, they could only contact each other in reality.

"They have arrived, but..." Liang Jing looked at Shi Feng, her expression hesitant.

Shi Feng asked strangely, "But what?"

Liang Jing carefully whispered, "Maybe it's just my illusion, but when I saw them just now, I felt like they were very unfamiliar..."

ps: Thank you to Wei Xiao for the 160,000 reward!

(You guys are too ruthless! The only manuscript left by Tianyun Lao Mao is gone. After that, Lao Mao will have to code everything to make up for today's reward owes o(╥﹏╥)o)