Chapter 2455 The Effects of a City

"No wonder the Guild could improve so quickly. So, there's this kind of effect."

Shi Feng carefully examined the Advanced Restaurant Design and the City Recruitment Order in his bag, clicking his tongue in amazement.

While the system-awarded city fame was helpful for city development and could attract more NPCs, it was nothing compared to these two items.

Like Advanced Auction Houses, Advanced Restaurants were rare, high-level buildings that very few guilds could obtain. At a Dark Auction, one top-tier adventure team put one up for exchange, and the final price made even first-rate guilds feel powerless.

Two pieces of Legendary items… These were treasures that were hard to come by anywhere. For many first-rate guilds at the time, the entire guild only had two or three pieces of Legendary items. They were unwilling to part with any of them, as everyone knew how precious Legendary items were.

But in the end, they were bought by super forces.

Many people felt it wasn't worth it, as restaurants only served to attract players. These players could only bring gold coins or magic crystals, which were probably not as important as Legendary items to wealthy super forces. Yet, the super forces snatched them up happily.

Now it seemed, no wonder the super forces were so eager.

Advanced Restaurants were not only more magnificent and gorgeous than ordinary restaurants, with more diverse transaction models, but they could also hire Culinary Grandmasters and Culinary Masters.

In God's Domain, it was extremely difficult for any sub-职业 (fùzhíyè – auxiliary occupation/profession) to become a Master, let alone a Grandmaster.

Anyone who became a Master or Grandmaster, regardless of the sub-职业, could bring unimaginable benefits, especially a lifestyle Grandmaster, which was enough for any super force to value and influence the strength of a guild.

A Culinary Grandmaster could create unimaginable delicacies, and some special dishes could even permanently increase a player's attributes or even physique. The number of times they could be increased was limited, but even so, it was remarkable. In God's Domain, besides using weapons and equipment to greatly increase player attributes and physique, there were almost no other means to do so.

But a Culinary Grandmaster could do it. By creating various special dishes, they could continuously strengthen players, even if there was a limit. The extent of this improvement was significant. Rumor had it that reaching the limit was no less than having a piece of a Legendary item.

Reaching the limit was undoubtedly a difficult task. The gold coins and resources spent would be unimaginable, but for wealthy super forces, money and resources were not lacking. What they wanted was overwhelmingly powerful experts. Exchanging two pieces of Legendary items for the opportunity for more players to have Legendary items was a worthwhile deal, but ordinary forces could not afford it.

Of course, the construction of an Advanced Restaurant also had high requirements. The most basic requirement was reaching the level of a Beginner City. In addition, there was the player's construction level, as various secret纹 (mìwén – secret patterns/runes) needed to be applied. Finally, there were various rare materials, including one thousand magic ore stones, with a construction cost of around ten thousand gold.

As for the other item, the City Recruitment Order, it was also invaluable. After the city was built, a recruitment order could be issued, which could easily attract NPC guards with great potential and strength. This saved the long wait for NPCs to come and apply one by one. However, this also required the city itself to be good enough. The better the city's development, the better the effect of the recruitment order.

In the past life, a guild used a City Recruitment Order and actually recruited a Tier 4 魔导师 (mó dǎoshī – mage/wizard), which almost made other guilds die of envy. Normally, it was extremely difficult to recruit NPCs who could reach Tier 2. Tier 3 was a dream. Only the Hero's Chapter could hire NPCs above Tier 3, not to mention a 魔导师, whose city defense effect was much better than other Tier 4 classes.

"Once Zero Wing City's buildings are completed, and the number of players consistently reaches over 1.5 million, it should be about time to use it." Shi Feng looked at the City Recruitment Order with some excitement. If a Tier 4 NPC could be recruited to guard the city, it would be perfect.

On the other side, in Stone Forest Town, Aqua Rose was also quickly gathering guild elites and a large number of architects. Because Aqua Rose said she needed some people to defend the new city, the members of the entire guild were boiling with excitement.

"Vice Guild Leader, I want to sign up!"

"Damn, it's actually true! Our guild actually has a city!"

"Luckily, I joined the Zero Wing Guild early. If we wait until the city is developed, Zero Wing's recruitment requirements will probably be higher."

"Tell me about it. My friend was still hesitating whether to join Zero Wing or Return of the Kings. In the end, he chose to go to Return of the Kings. If he knew that our Zero Wing Guild had a guild city that even the super guild Return of the Kings didn't have, he would definitely regret it."

Hearing Aqua Rose's affirmation, everyone frantically signed up to participate in the daily defense of the new city. In fact, more people just wanted to go to the new city to see it, curious about where the new city was.

In less than ten minutes, Aqua Rose had gathered three thousand elite members and two hundred architects.

"Afterward, I will give you the teleportation permissions to the new city. Once you get there, start the daily maintenance work and manage the NPCs that will be pouring in. If you can't manage them, you can notify the nearby NPC guards for assistance. If there are no problems, let's start teleporting now," Aqua Rose said about everyone's work.

For a newly established town or city, the first thing to face was the influx of NPCs. Guild towns and guild cities cannot prevent NPCs from entering or leaving the town, unless they are caught in the act and can be expelled. Among these NPCs pouring into the city, in addition to ordinary NPCs, there will also be many dark force NPCs infiltrating.

If the guild handles the city's security well, it can increase the city's fame faster. If it is not handled well, it will reduce the fame. Therefore, it is necessary to invest a lot of players in the early stage to maintain the city's security. After it stabilizes, it will be truly open to players. Otherwise, everyone pouring in together will only cause the opposite effect, not to mention such a large Beginner City.

As Aqua Rose finished speaking, everyone purchased the Zero Wing City guild residence teleportation scrolls in the guild hall, disappearing one by one, making other players very envious. Although it was city maintenance work, it was also a task. If a dark NPC could be caught, it could reward a lot of experience points and guild points, which was much better than leveling up and fighting monsters in the wild.

On the other side, the faces of the major forces in Star-Moon Kingdom were indescribably gloomy after receiving this news.

"Investigate, immediately send people to investigate, we must find out where the Zero Wing Guild's new city is!"

For the major forces in Star-Moon Kingdom, the location of the new city was very important. If it was close to them, they would have to adjust the focus of their development. For some guilds, they also had their eyes on Zero Wing's new city.

For a time, the major forces began to send out a large number of people to investigate Zero Wing's new city.

In the guild residence hall of Zero Wing City, beams of light flickered, and a large group of players appeared.

"Zero Wing City?"

"Is this our guild's city?"

Everyone walked out of the guild hall, and were stunned by the sight of Zero Wing City.

Although they thought that the new city must be much better than Stone Forest Town, they did not expect it to be so magnificent. Stone Forest Town was like heaven and earth compared to Zero Wing City.