Chapter 1 The Prosperity of Baihe City

Star-Moon Kingdom, White River City.

Shi Feng, cloaked in black, had barely stepped out of the Teleportation Hall when he saw that the once bustling streets filled with shouts for party recruitment were now occupied not only by adventurer teams but also by merchant players from other kingdoms buying and selling items.

Due to the system update, those from surrounding kingdoms could now teleport directly to White River City without needing to transfer via Star-Moon City.

The trading scene was a world apart from how White River City used to be.

Besides merchant players, there were also many guilds and adventurer teams that had come to White River City, clearly because the reduced teleportation fees from this update had swayed the hesitant guilds and adventurer teams to come and take a look.

"So, this is White River City? The commerce here is so prosperous! It's even a cut above our Northern Domain Kingdom's royal capital!"

"How are the player levels here so high!"

"No way, does this city even have a flying ship system?"

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Each and every one of the newly arrived guilds and adventurer teams were utterly astonished by the prosperity of White River City.

Previously, they had only heard of it online. White River City of the Star-Moon Kingdom was supposedly the number one NPC city in the kingdom, but they had only taken this title as a joke.

How could an NPC city of a kingdom ever surpass its royal capital?

If it really did, it could only mean one thing: that the kingdom was too weak. And the fact that Star-Moon Kingdom's number one guild was a new guild established in God's Domain proved this point.

If the teleportation fees hadn't been drastically reduced, and if they couldn't directly teleport to the central area of the Twin Towers Kingdom to hunt Abyssal monsters and advance to hidden classes via White River City's teleportation hall, they wouldn't have come to White River City at all.

But now, seeing it with their own eyes, it was a world apart from what they had imagined.

Merchant players hawking their wares were everywhere on the streets, and the items they were selling were all top-quality. There were even Level 40 Fine-Gold weapons and Level 45 Fine-Gold equipment for sale. This was something that could only be seen occasionally at the royal capital's auction house, but here, players were openly selling them.

Moreover, the dungeons that adventurer teams were tackling were even more remarkable. There were even wild groups forming to take on Level 40 Hard Mode 100-man dungeons…

Although many players in God's Domain had now reached Level 40 or higher, Level 40 was just the baseline for clearing Level 40 100-man dungeons, not to mention Hard Mode 100-man team dungeons. These were usually cleared internally by large guilds, led by a dozen or so experts who had already cleared it, or by large adventurer teams.

Temporary wild groups would be grateful just to clear Normal Mode 100-man team dungeons. Trying to clear Hard Mode 100-man team dungeons was simply a pipe dream.

The guild players who had just arrived in White River City wanted to cast disdainful glances, but when they saw the levels and equipment of the group members, they couldn't help but shut their mouths.

Everyone was Level 41 or higher, and their equipment was at least Level 35 Mithril equipment. Many were wearing Level 40 Mithril equipment, and the leaders were mostly equipped with Level 40 Fine-Gold equipment and Level 35 Dark-Gold equipment. Even the elite teams of large guilds were no more than this…

"Hahaha, another batch of wide-eyed newbies. They actually dare to think of White River City as an ordinary NPC city. This is just the main street outside the Teleportation Hall. When they get to the commercial street in the central district, they'll probably lose their eyeballs."

"Weren't you the same as them before?"

"That's because I didn't know! Besides, I'm different from them. I came because of the Zero Wing Guild. It's a pity that Zero Wing Guild's recruitment standards are a bit high. I was only a little bit away from passing last time."

"Alright, enough talk. It's almost time for the group leader to call us together. Today, we must strive to clear the first Boss of the Hell Mode 100-man dungeon!"

"Definitely this time. I heard that the group leader used some super-rare materials that were hard to come by to exchange for three pieces of Advanced Mana Armor Plating from the Candlelight Trading Firm. It shouldn't be a problem to tank the first Boss."

Several adventurer team players waiting at an open-air bar by the street looked at the players who had just arrived in White River City and began to chat and laugh. They felt an indescribable sense of pride at the amazement of these new players.

And the new players passing by, whether they were guild members from other kingdoms or members of well-known adventurer teams from other kingdoms, were all so shocked that they couldn't speak.

Currently, in God's Domain, apart from those top adventurer teams, very few could clear Level 40 Hell Mode 100-man dungeons, even if it was just the first Boss. However, the others on the street didn't find anything strange about the conversation of these few people, as if it was all very normal…

This made the guilds and adventurer teams that had just arrived in White River City full of curiosity and amazement about White River City.

They were very curious about what kind of city White River City was.

At the same time, they also passed on the news to their friends. Many of their friends thought it was a joke, but after watching the video, they all said that they wanted to go too.

For a time, because of the drastically reduced teleportation fees, the name of White River City spread among the major kingdoms and two great empires, attracting more and more players who wanted to develop in White River City.

"No wonder they say that the opening of an expansion pack is a reshuffle. It seems that the new expansion pack I opened is not without benefits for the development of the Zero Wing Guild." Shi Feng couldn't help but smile as he listened to the crowd's discussion on the street. "Even without the Teleportation Magic Array connecting Zero Wing City, White River City has a chance to impact the main city."

The NPC cities in God's Domain were not immutable. They could also be promoted, but they needed to meet many conditions. The most important of these was the number of players and the city's transaction volume.

If White River City wanted to be promoted again, it needed to have a player population of ten million, which was the most difficult thing to achieve. However, now that the teleportation barrier was resolved, the number of players was no longer a problem.

As long as White River City was promoted, it would also open up corresponding city functions. At that time, not only would the city become larger, but it could also allow the Flying Ships to open up more flight points, sending players to those remote neutral maps without Teleportation Magic Arrays to level up, attracting more players and allowing the Zero Wing Guild to develop faster.

"It seems very necessary to have the Candlelight Trading Firm launch some new products." Shi Feng thought of the Advanced Alchemy Recipe, the Mana Amplification Potion, that he had just obtained.

This kind of burst-type potion was extremely powerful for dungeon攻略, and it was exactly what the major adventurer teams and small guilds needed.

If he put this thing up for sale in White River City, it would definitely cause a sensation.

Immediately, Shi Feng contacted Youlan, asking her to organize the alchemists of the Candlelight Trading Firm and have the Advanced Alchemist with the highest success rate create the Mana Amplification Potion.

"An Advanced Alchemy Recipe?" Youlan's eyes lit up when she heard this. "I'll go organize it right away."

And Shi Feng took a high-class carriage to Seliora's blacksmith shop.

Although Seliora had become a forging grandmaster, she did not go to live in a higher city like other forging grandmasters. Instead, she was still tinkering with materials in this inconspicuous blacksmith shop, thinking about creating fragments of legendary items.

"Have I been discovered so quickly?"

When Shi Feng arrived in front of the blacksmith shop, he found that more than a dozen players were already standing in front of the blacksmith shop. They all stood solemnly and waited quietly, not daring to make a sound, for fear of disturbing Seliora, who was still working inside.

And these players were obviously different from ordinary players. More than half of these dozen people were life players with levels of only around Level 33, while the other half were expert players with levels as high as Level 46 or higher.

The leaders were a man and a woman, both wearing black cloaks. Their levels could not be seen, only their appearances could be seen.

"Why is she here?" When Shi Feng saw these two people, he didn't know anything about the man, but the woman was an old acquaintance.

Because this woman was none other than Youlan, who had already been arranged by the Underworld to leave the Star-Moon Kingdom and develop in other places.