Chapter 1 The Flourishing City

On the streets of White River City, carriages and horses bustled about.

Seated in a carriage, Shi Feng could clearly sense the significant changes in White River City.

The most noticeable was the increasing number and variety of carriages on the streets.

God's Domain was a game that constantly evolved, and NPC cities also underwent continuous changes, never remaining static.

Ordinary players might not think much of the increasing number or types of carriages, but Shi Feng, who had played God's Domain for ten years, knew very well that this symbolized the prosperity of a city.

How was prosperity manifested?

The most basic criterion was the number of carriages on the streets, much like the number of cars in a real-world city.

Small cities had fewer cars, and high-end cars were rarely seen, while large cities had constant traffic jams and luxury cars everywhere.

The same was true for cities in God's Domain.

As the number of players in an NPC city increased, the main system would automatically increase the number of carriages to meet the players' needs and facilitate their travel.

When the average consumption level of players in a city reached a certain point, the system would automatically open up access to advanced carriages. These advanced carriages were more expensive, but they were faster, saving players more time. After all, an NPC city was vast, and it was normal to spend several hours traveling to some places.

Currently, there were only five cities in the entire Star-Moon Kingdom that had advanced carriages, and White River City had the most. It could be said that White River City was already the most prosperous city in the Star-Moon Kingdom.

However, the opening of advanced carriages was just a basic setting for a city's prosperity. As time passed, various facilities would open up in the city, such as flying vehicles or a flying transport function, allowing players to reach upgrade areas that couldn't be reached by teleportation arrays. This would save players more time than running there themselves, making them feel that staying in this large city was increasingly convenient, saving them a lot of time, and subtly affecting their leveling speed.

This was one of the main reasons why empire players were generally higher level than kingdom players.

"Now that White River City has opened advanced carriages, and with the number of advanced carriages, it shouldn't be long before luxury carriages are opened. As long as we take it a step further, we can open luxury carriages. At that time, we can go to Eclipse Gate for leveling via the city's airship. It seems I have to make plans early." Shi Feng couldn't help but think of Eclipse Gate, the most famous leveling area in White River City in his previous life.

In his previous life, when White River City opened the airship function, the mainstream players in God's Domain were almost all level 50, and many players had already advanced to Tier 2 classes.

From that moment on, the level of players in White River City entered a period of growth.

Because the airship in White River City could lead to Eclipse Gate. Of course, White River City wasn't the only city with airships leading to Eclipse Gate. The eastern cities of the entire Star-Moon Kingdom could go to Eclipse Gate after opening the airship function.

Eclipse Gate was the intersection of the four major countries: Star-Moon Kingdom, Rhein Kingdom, Icefield Kingdom, and Eastern Spring Empire. It was a neutral zone where each country had troops stationed to prevent creatures from Eclipse Gate from invading God's Domain. Therefore, there were many high-level quests and army quests, and the leveling speed was about twice as fast as other leveling maps. Moreover, the level range of Eclipse Gate was a super-large map from level 40 to level 70. There were many rare herbs and ores in that map, which were necessary resources for making high-level potions and high-level equipment.

More importantly, there was the mount resource, Energy Essence, in Eclipse Gate.

Guilds needed some materials to tame mounts. The more and higher-level the materials, the faster the taming speed, and the faster the guild mounts could grow.

And Energy Essence was one of the high-level materials for taming mounts.

Because of this, players were extremely envious of Eclipse Gate.

After reaching level 40, who wouldn't want to get a good mount? But how easy was it to get a good mount? They still had to slowly cultivate it through guild mounts and make their guild mounts advance as soon as possible to become their combat power.

Although leveling in Eclipse Gate was fast and there were many resources, it had a disadvantage.

That was the environment of the Eclipse Gate map was quite bad. If they didn't reach a certain level of fire resistance and ice resistance, even expert players couldn't bear it and would easily lose their lives. Therefore, after the opening of Eclipse Gate, not only did the ice resistance and fire resistance equipment of the Star-Moon Kingdom become very popular, but the surrounding three countries were also the same.

In addition to equipment with ice resistance and fire resistance, items that increased ice resistance and fire resistance were also extremely popular and loved by major guild players.

Although there was still some time before the airship would open, Shi Feng felt that he could start preparing now.

Although the equipment with ice resistance and fire resistance was expensive now, it was limited. As for those ice resistance and fire resistance items, it was the same. When everyone entered Eclipse Gate, the price of equipment with ice resistance and fire resistance could directly double, and the prices of various items also increased several times.

Whether it was to increase the leveling speed of guild members or to sell for money, now was a good opportunity to hoard these things.

"I remember that Campbell Volcano produces a lot of fire resistance equipment and fire resistance items. It's not bad to take Aqua Rose and the others to farm it later." Shi Feng remembered many maps in the Star-Moon Kingdom that produced fire resistance and ice resistance equipment, and the map that produced the most fire resistance equipment was Campbell Volcano.

Campbell Volcano was a map for levels 40 to 50, but because of the harsh environment, few players were willing to go. However, since Eclipse Gate became popular, Campbell Volcano had become a place that many players in the Star-Moon Kingdom often went to.

Now that no players were going, he could just take the main force group members to explore the map. The Bosses on the entire map hadn't been killed yet, and the drops from the first kill were twice as many as the second kill. Moreover, with the level of the main force group, it shouldn't be a big problem to deal with level 50 Bosses. As for the Magic Crystal in Stoneclaw Mountains, it was enough to rely on the elite members in the guild to get it.

Unknowingly, the advanced carriage stopped at the gate of the library.

At this time, the gate of the library was still the same as usual, with a bunch of players guarding the gate, hoping to hug the thighs of that noble and get into the library.

Under the gaze of everyone, Shi Feng easily entered the library. The guards at the door were extremely respectful to Shi Feng, which surprised many players.

After entering the library, Shi Feng went to the top floor hall of the library as usual.

Two Tier 3 Red-Clad Holy Knights at level 200 saw Shi Feng coming over and immediately stopped him.

"When did Tier 3 NPCs guard this place?" Shi Feng was surprised.

Tier 4 NPCs were already the overlords of White River City. The highest combat power of some small cities was only Tier 3 class, but now the guards at the gate of the library were all Tier 3 class, which was really surprising. The royal palace of Star-Moon Kingdom only had this treatment.

"Without permission, outsiders are not allowed in!" The level 200 Red-Clad Holy Knight held his spear horizontally and blocked Shi Feng, saying indifferently.

However, a clear and melodious voice soon came from inside the house.

"Let him in."

Upon hearing this, the two level 200 Tier 3 Red-Clad Holy Knights quickly retracted their spears and opened the door to let Shi Feng in.

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