Chapter 1 Dawn

As dusk fell in the real world, the sun setting, all the players in God's Domain were welcoming the sunrise.

Red Leaf Town was brightly lit, as if it were daytime. The trade streets were filled with players coming and going. Compared to the previous day, there were even more players in Red Leaf Town now, many of them level 0 newbies.

After two days of open beta, God's Domain had made many people aware of its unique qualities. Leaving aside the various pleasures besides combat, the combat itself was very appealing. As the levels increased, the battles became more realistic, no longer the simple turn-based system of the past, where you hit the monster, and the monster hit you. It was more like real-world competitive fighting.

This was an era of universal fitness. In reality, people were already obsessed with fighting competitions, to the point of madness.

Everyone wanted to have a hearty battle, especially sparring with experts, to pursue that feeling of excitement and tension that was simply addictive, and God's Domain had all of that, without the risk of death.

Moreover, God's Domain had fascinating and thrilling grand adventures, and countless unknown things waiting for people to discover and explore, as well as double the living time. Many players wished they could stay in God's Domain forever and live their second life.

This also attracted a large number of people to play God's Domain. In addition, more and more virtual game companies saw this irreversible trend and announced their bankruptcy one after another, preparing to move into God's Domain to develop, forcing some players who did not want to abandon their old games to enter God's Domain, suddenly increasing the number of players in God's Domain significantly.

As soon as Shi Feng returned to Red Leaf Town, he received a pile of system notifications.

Almost all of them were auction house sales notifications, which gave him more than 500 silver coins, or 5 gold coins.

He remembered that not long ago, he had put 3 gold coins on the virtual trading center. In just one day, he had 5 more gold coins. This money was almost entirely earned by the guilds with great difficulty, and they had all contributed it to him.

Now, in the entire White River City region, probably no player was richer than him, not even the guild leaders of first-rate guilds.

However, this was just the tip of the iceberg. The real money-making moment was only just beginning.

Shi Feng first put all the items in his backpack into the warehouse, not planning to sell them, keeping them for later use. After all, gems and skill books were hard currency and would never depreciate. Equipment, on the other hand, depreciated very quickly as players leveled up.

Then Shi Feng started doing his old job again. Night was the best time to do business. Seeing that dawn was approaching, he put the quest aside for the time being and set up a stall to collect stone materials, magic essence, sturdy stones, and card sets.

Because Shi Feng had collected them several times before, many players would deliberately save them, waiting for Shi Feng to collect them. Now, as soon as Shi Feng shouted, a bunch of players would rush over.

In this way, Shi Feng collected materials while listening to the players chatting at the stalls next to him.

"Assassin's Alliance really won glory this time, completing the Murloc Riot quest and earning a lot of guild honor points. I'm afraid it won't be long before Assassin's Alliance can be promoted to a level 2 guild."

"That's nothing. I heard that a big thing happened in the Royal City area. The president of the first-rate guild Starlight Federation completed a major quest and has been promoted to a first-class citizen. A little more and he can become a noble. When he has the status of a noble, what are these guild honor points? After becoming a noble, he can go to the barracks and city hall to ask for guild quests at any time, and he can catch up with Assassin's Alliance in minutes. In addition, the many privileges of nobles give them a great advantage. Now Starlight Federation has already overwhelmed Devouring Serpent. I'm afraid the Royal City battle will fall into the hands of Starlight Federation."

"What you're talking about is nothing. The hottest thing right now is the duel between Black Flame Forgemaster and One Hammer Trading."

"Who doesn't know about that? Probably no one in the entire White River City area doesn't know about it. But I really didn't expect that the winner would be decided so quickly, and I didn't expect that the final result would be One Hammer Trading winning. Hehe, luckily I was clever and borrowed money to buy a Glimmer Breastplate. Many people are now offering high prices to buy this thing. As long as I resell it, I can earn 3 silver coins."

"That's right. The Glimmer Breastplate is so cool, whether it's the stats or the design. The cost must be extremely high, so he sold it at such a low price in order to compete with One Hammer Trading. He definitely can't afford to keep losing money, so he lost when he couldn't hold on any longer. It's a pity that I can't even sell a piece of equipment now. Otherwise, I would have borrowed money to buy one. Now One Hammer Trading is infinitely glorious, majestic, and his fame is exploding. He is still scolding the mysterious forger on the forum for being incompetent, a turtle son, and not daring to compete with him. He is very proud. Those first-rate guilds will definitely invite him in order to increase the guild's popularity and influence. At this time, One Hammer Trading is already talking about the contract."

"The chief forger of a first-rate guild, just thinking about this position makes people drool, but we can only envy him. Who told us that we don't have the design blueprint for bronze equipment? If I had this thing, even if I went bankrupt, I would have to compete with One Hammer Trading. When I get the chief position of the first-rate guild, the future will definitely be infinitely bright, and I can pick any luxury car or beautiful woman."

After hearing this, Shi Feng frowned slightly and then opened the official forum.

Sure enough, One Hammer Trading was mocking and insulting him in various ways.

Turtle son, aren't you super awesome? Why are you a shrinking turtle now? If you have the ability, let's continue to compete! See how grandpa crushes you, you black-hearted forger.

Seeing these low-level hype tactics, Shi Feng smiled indifferently. He had to admire One Hammer Trading for being so crazy for fame that he used all kinds of means, just like in his previous life, he betrayed the entire guild in order to enter H雄霸天下 (Xiong Ba Tian Xia, meaning Hegemon of the World) and become the chief forger.

After collecting the materials, Shi Feng walked towards the auction house.

After being stirred up by One Hammer Trading, the Glimmer Breastplate can be regarded as a household name, and the next money-making action can begin.

At this stage, most ordinary players are already level 3, and many hardcore players are level 4. There should be quite a few experts who have reached level 5. Ordinary players definitely can't afford the Glimmer Breastplate, and only hardcore players can borrow money everywhere to buy one. For experts, the use of the Glimmer Breastplate is no longer very significant. There are many pieces of equipment in the level 5 dungeon that surpass the Glimmer Breastplate.

In other words, the Glimmer Breastplate can't earn too much money anymore. After all, the main buyers of the equipment are those guilds, ordinary players can't afford it, maybe only rich players will buy it to play with, but rich players are only a very, very small number.

Shi Feng walked into the auction house. The entire hall was full of people. Shi Feng had to find a corner and silently opened the display screen of the auction house and put up twenty Glimmer Breastplate design blueprints, with a low price of 30 silver coins, selling one every half hour.

It's not that Shi Feng doesn't want to sell them in large quantities, but selling them in large quantities won't sell for a high price. Only hunger marketing can get the maximum profit. Let those guilds slowly grab them.

Then Shi Feng cleared the accumulated sturdy stones and card sets in the auction house and left the auction house, heading towards the library.