Chapter 1 The Second Evolution

After everyone was forced out of God's Domain by the system, they automatically entered a hibernation space. They weren't completely offline, and could still browse information online and communicate with friends.

Shi Feng opened the system friend list, and suddenly noticed that all the friends in the list were uniformly offline, not in God's Domain, but in the hibernation space.

"Everyone's not in God's Domain?"

"What exactly is going on?"

Shi Feng was also puzzled by this. This was the first time he had encountered such a thing.

Previously, he hadn't heard the system's emergency prompt clearly before being automatically kicked out of God's Domain. Unable to log in, he couldn't check what the previous system prompt was.

Then Shi Feng immediately contacted Water Rose and the others, hoping to find out what the system prompt was.

Unfortunately, Water Rose and the others were in the same situation. They had just received the system prompt and immediately went offline, without even hearing what was said.

"I can only look at the official website forum." Shi Feng sighed.

Usually, crucial information can't be found on the official website forum, but something major must have happened in God's Domain for them to be kicked out like this.

After logging into the official website forum, sure enough.

Everywhere, people were discussing the matter of everyone being disconnected from God's Domain.

Others were notified two hours in advance, but Shi Feng and the others were only notified a few seconds before the main system began executing.

"Two hours ago? Wasn't that right after I killed the Scarlet Shadow Dire Wolf?" Shi Feng calculated the time, and it roughly matched. "Could it be because I killed the Scarlet Shadow Dire Wolf that God's Domain started its second evolution?"

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Before, stepping into the Starfall Land happened to activate the free combat system.

It was very possible that the main system was using them for experiments at the time. Seeing that they could easily defeat the rare Lord-ranked Scarlet Shadow Dire Wolf, the main system made this decision.

Thinking of this, Shi Feng really didn't know how to express his current feelings other than with a wry smile.

After God's Domain started its second system upgrade, players could only log in the next day.

On the official website forum, many people expressed their speechless reaction to this system upgrade.

The first system upgrade had already let everyone experience what combat was all about. Whether it was wilderness adventures or monster grinding, the difficulty had undoubtedly increased a lot.

After such a short time, the second upgrade had begun. It might be even more difficult than before.

Shi Feng was also quite troubled by this.

The second evolution of God's Domain came too quickly and suddenly, several months ahead of the original schedule. He wasn't prepared at all.

As everyone guessed, after the second system upgrade, the free combat system was added. In the future, monster battles would require extremely high control over skills. It was possible to accidentally injure one's own people, especially when releasing area-of-effect skills.

After God's Domain began its second evolution, many players didn't die at the hands of monsters, but at the hands of their own people.

Because of this, for a long time, many players were restrained in battle.

In addition, after God's Domain completed its second evolution, the difficulty of dungeons increased a lot for players.

Although the evolution increased the difficulty for players, the degree of realism also increased a lot, but it also brought a good thing.

That was the improvement of skill proficiency. After the second evolution of God's Domain, the player's combat mode also changed a lot.

Players no longer needed to silently recite or shout out the skill name to use it. Instead, each skill had a standard action based on the player's movements. As long as the corresponding action was performed, these skills could be used naturally.

The player's skill proficiency no longer needed to be improved by dealing damage to monsters to possibly gain 1 point, or by fighting monsters higher level than themselves to gain more skill proficiency.

As long as the player's skill completion rate reached 50% when fighting monsters, they could naturally gain 1 point. In addition, the higher the skill completion rate, the more skill proficiency would be rewarded. In this way, even against monsters of the same level or two or three levels lower, skill proficiency could still be greatly improved.

The rapid improvement of skill proficiency naturally meant that the skill level would also increase faster.

With high-level skills, killing monsters became much easier.

This kind of combat method would undoubtedly make players very unaccustomed to it at first, but after players adapted, they would find that this combat mode was more conducive to players exerting stronger combat power.

However, it was not easy to adapt to this combat that was already very, very close to reality. Generally, a period of special training was needed to familiarize players with the skills they used. If the actions were not in place, the power of the skills would also drop sharply.

"The training hall plan must be hastened." Shi Feng sighed slightly.

Not long after God's Domain started its second evolution, physical exercise and martial arts learning, which had once been depressed, suddenly became popular.

Then Shi Feng browsed through God's Domain news again.

In addition to Star-Moon Kingdom, there were also several surrounding kingdoms and a Black Dragon Empire, especially the Black Dragon Empire.

Any empire in God's Domain could not be underestimated. The competition inside was far more intense than in a kingdom. Star-Moon Kingdom only had four or five first-rate guilds competing, especially since the kingdom was small, and there were even only one or two first-rate guilds competing.

But empires were different. Not only were they wider in area, but there were also more players, and they controlled an extraordinary amount of resources. The number of first-rate guilds inside was also not comparable to that of a kingdom.

According to statistics, an empire had at least seven first-rate guilds, not to mention those guilds that had been funded by large consortia and jumped from second-rate to first-rate.

In his previous life, the Black Dragon Empire had nine first-rate guilds, which were far stronger than the neighboring Star-Moon Kingdom.

In the future, if he wanted to have a place in God's Domain, just staring at Star-Moon Kingdom would not be enough.

Shi Feng only casually looked at today's God's Domain news and felt a great increase in pressure.

Zero Wing Guild had finally managed to get a guild residence, while in the Black Dragon Empire, several first-rate guilds had already established guild residences today, and their speed was not much slower than Zero Wing's.

In addition to these guilds that could establish residences, major guilds had also begun to prepare to purchase prime city land, such as auction houses, virtual trading centers, banks, high-end restaurants, etc., which would be the main sources of money for a guild in the future.

After several years of development, God's Domain could be said to be everyone's second world. Nearly half of the day was spent in God's Domain, and in God's Domain, the flow of time was slower. One hour outside was equivalent to two hours in God's Domain. Simply calculating from the time experienced, life in God's Domain might be longer than life in reality.

In the setting of God's Domain, npC cities and player-built cities were different. Players living in npC cities never had to worry about being affected by the struggles of major forces, while player-built cities could be destroyed.

This led to the fact that land in npC cities in the world of God's Domain was very precious, and there was nothing more valuable than land in npC cities.

The more he browsed this information, the more Shi Feng felt that he must raise a lot of gold coins as soon as possible, otherwise, how would he compete with those well-funded first-rate guilds?

Shi Feng unknowingly studied the major guilds of God's Domain for a full half day.

It wasn't until dawn when he came out of the virtual reality pod that the doorbell suddenly rang.