Chapter 2 VIP Reception Room

The VIP reception room was on the second floor of the City Hall.

A middle-aged man in exquisite attire slowly opened the door and walked in. Using an advanced observation skill would reveal that this butler-like man was Jarvis, a Tier 3 NPC with a level as high as 180.

"Guardian, I heard you want to apply for city construction. Do you have a city-building order?" Jarvis asked.

"Take a look." Shi Feng then took out a tattered parchment.

"Indeed, it is a city-building order issued by the royal family a hundred years ago. I wonder where Guardian plans to build the city so I can calculate the price. But I need to remind you that the higher the level of the place you build the city, the more expensive it will be," Jarvis explained, then took out a magic scroll for Shi Feng to choose the location for building the city.

"I understand. I want to build the city in the Witch Hill," Shi Feng directly clicked on the Witch Hill on the magic scroll.

As a large map for levels 50 to 70, it would definitely attract many players. It was also near the Sorrowful Ruin.

The Sorrowful Ruin was also a hell-level regional dungeon, rich in magic crystals.

Moreover, the Witch Hill itself had a gateway to another world. Even after ten years, the Witch Hill was still very popular among players.

"Okay, where specifically do you want to build it?" Jarvis then clicked on the magic scroll, and a three-dimensional model of the entire Witch Hill immediately appeared.

"Specific location?" Shi Feng couldn't help but examine it carefully.

Last time, he just came to ask about the price of building a city. Because of his low status, even if he built a city, the NPC would not allow him to choose a location on the map at will. He could only choose the map to build on. The specific location was randomly selected by the system. Unlike Jarvis, who was ranked third among the NPCs in the entire City Hall, he could choose the location to build the city on Witch Hill.

However, this high-level authority also had a drawback: the price of building a city would fluctuate greatly depending on the geographical location, unlike the system's automatic random selection, which would choose the easiest place to build the city without considering the scenery and other aspects.

"Let's build it here." Shi Feng pointed to the summit of a mountain on Witch Hill, not far from a large waterfall.

Not only was the scenery very good here, making it very suitable for those scenery-loving players, but the geographical location was also easy to defend and difficult to attack. The only inconvenience was going up and down the mountain, but for players above level 50, who generally had mounts, they wouldn't care about the mountain road.

"Guardian, the location you have chosen has complex terrain. If you want to build a city here, the manpower and material resources required will be at least 60% more expensive than building a city on the plains, and the time it takes to build the city will be longer. Are you sure you want to do this?" Jarvis looked at Shi Feng and confirmed again.

"Yes, build it there." Shi Feng nodded.

Building a city on the plains might save money, but siege battles would be troublesome in the future. On the plains, enemies could attack from all directions, making defense very difficult. Naturally, he couldn't be greedy for this small advantage now.

"Okay, I will start calculating the price now, please wait a moment." After confirming that there were no problems, Jarvis began to calculate the price of building the city. After a while, he took out a list and handed it to Shi Feng. "The current preliminary estimate is 152,000 gold. If we are attacked by monsters afterwards, we will also charge additional fees. In addition, there is a registration fee of 30,000 gold. According to the current second-generation city level, you will need to pay a management fee of 30,000 gold per month in the future. I wonder if you need to send more guards to better maintain the city's security after it is built? For a period of twenty-one days, the guards guarding the city, every hundred Tier 1 guards cost 100 gold for three days, and every ten Tier 2 guards cost 100 gold for three days. How many do you want to hire?"

"Building a city directly is really expensive." Shi Feng clicked his tongue secretly after seeing the price list.

Last time, he just wanted to know a rough price. Now that he was really building a city, including the guards, the cost was more than 190,000 gold. This didn't include the cost of being attacked by monsters during the construction of the city...

Originally, his idea was to wait until he had collected the Seven Luminaries Crystals and had the capital to build the Four Element Tower before building the city. But now that he had obtained the Hero's Chapter, even without the Four Element Tower, he had some means of resistance, so the sooner he built the city, the better.

"I want to hire 1,000 Tier 1 guards and 100 Tier 2 guards, each for twenty-one days," Shi Feng said.

"Okay, then you will have to pay a total of 196,000 gold!" Jarvis said with a slight excitement. Such a large transaction was the first time he had received it. "In addition, the construction time is about six to ten days, depending on local conditions."

Then Shi Feng paid 196,000 gold in one go.

He had earned a lot through the Blessing of the Sea God before, but a lot of money was needed to buy magic rune fragments and pay for teleportation fees, so Shi Feng only took 30,000 gold, and the rest was given to Huo Wu to operate.

And an auction completely made Shi Feng a big profit, earning more than 210,000 gold after deducting costs and so on.

Because of this, the major forces of the Star-Moon Kingdom felt a little breathless. With such strong capital, no first-rate guild could compete with him. To compete would only be courting death.

"Guardian, this is your territory contract. From now on, you are a lord of our Star-Moon Kingdom and enjoy the title of Earl of the Star-Moon Kingdom," Jarvis said respectfully.

System: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first lord of the Star-Moon Kingdom, rewarding the guild with 30,000 points of fame, a town teleportation magic array design blueprint, and the title of Earl of the Star-Moon Kingdom.

The Earl of the Star-Moon Kingdom was not comparable to the earls in the city. The two were worlds apart, because one had their own territory and the other did not.

"Now I'm out of money again." Shi Feng looked at the territory contract in his hand and sighed slightly.

Now he had more than 40,000 gold left. After deducting the money for the class advancement quest, this money was barely enough to buy vajra wood and build Stone Forest Town. As for using it to develop the guild, it was still far from enough.

But Shi Feng didn't care.

Compared to making the current Zero Wing Guild stronger, owning a city was more important.

As long as he owned a city, he wouldn't have to worry about money at all. The huge income was not comparable to Stone Forest Town. Just collecting city fees every day would make his hands cramp, not to mention the shops and arenas in the city.

"But the rewards are really amazing. It actually directly gave me the town teleportation magic array design blueprint." Shi Feng was very surprised looking at the design blueprint in his backpack.

The town teleportation magic array was much more advanced than the teleportation magic array he had obtained. It could teleport multiple people at the same time and consumed less energy. The only drawback was that it could only teleport between guild towns and not between NPC cities.

But even so, the town teleportation magic array was a treasure that was hard to find even for tens of thousands of gold.

Generally, there was only a chance to drop it in super-large hell-level team dungeons, and the drop rate was only about 2%, and only the final Boss in the team dungeon would drop it. The previous Bosses would not drop it.

Now that he could get the town teleportation magic array, it saved him a lot of trouble.

When the city was built, it could be directly connected to Stone Forest Town, so the value of both sides would be doubled.

"Everything that needs to be done has been done. Next, it's time to do the advanced quest." Shi Feng looked at the Soul Orb in his backpack and always felt that this thing was a time bomb, so he had to deal with it as soon as possible.