Chapter 23 Soul Crystal

Just as Shi Feng was quietly waiting for the Iron Fist Squad to clean up the loot, he suddenly discovered something amazing.

The Black Demon Serpent's drops were too unexpected.

A Leader monster only dropped three items. Two were equipment, but of low quality, both Level 40 Mysterious-Iron equipment. Besides, there was a gray crystal, and nothing else.

Compared to the seven pieces of equipment he had dropped, the loot was simply abysmal…

"It seems the Black Demon Serpent's drops are truly not that great."

Shi Feng glanced at the drops and finally understood it wasn't just his bad luck.

No sooner had Shi Feng finished lamenting the Black Demon Serpent's poor drops than the Elementalist, Chen Feng, became excited.

"Our luck is too good, we actually got a drop!" Elementalist Chen Feng laughed loudly.

"Really? Let me see." The Priest, Li Huo, hurriedly ran over, as if she had won the lottery. "We've only been hunting the Black Demon Serpent for four days, and we got a drop so quickly? Impossible!"

The others also ran over, each one elated.

"A drop?" Shi Feng couldn't help but be astonished.

He had already seen it through the Eye of Omniscience. Level 40 Mysterious-Iron equipment was indeed very rare right now, but it was useless to current players because they couldn't wear it. Moreover, its basic attributes were only slightly stronger than Level 30 Fine-Gold equipment. With the Iron Fist Squad's strength, how could they possibly care about Level 40 Mysterious-Iron equipment when they reached Level 40?

Why were they so happy?

"Wow, Captain Iron Fist, we really got a drop! We're rich this time." Li Huo held a gray crystal and happily showed it to Iron Fist.

Iron Fist took the gray crystal, looked at it carefully, gritted his teeth, and handed the gray crystal to Shi Feng, saying, "Brother Expert saved our Seventh Squad. We don't have anything to thank you with. Please accept this Soul Crystal, Brother Expert."

"This…" Shi Feng was stunned for a moment, then said, "I don't need the item. Later, I hope Brother Iron Fist and the others can help me inquire about some things. Just consider this as payment."

"That won't do. Moreover, the value of a Soul Crystal far exceeds the value of our intelligence gathering." Iron Fist thought for a moment and then said, "How about I exchange it for gems of equal value?"

Gems were no stranger to players in God's Domain, and could be said to be a kind of hard currency that could be used to embed into equipment to improve attributes.

However, gems were very scarce in the early stages of God's Domain, so the price was getting more and more expensive.

Currently, the general price of a Tier 1 gem was around 10 silver coins, and it could increase 3 points of attributes. Tier 2 gems were more expensive, selling for around 90 silver coins, and could increase 6 points of attributes. Among them, Strength, Agility, and Intelligence gems were priced as high as 1 gold coin.

Currently, the best gems that players could obtain were Tier 2 gems.

"That's fine," Shi Feng agreed.

"That's great! Our squad has a total of 23 Tier 2 gems and 89 Tier 1 gems. We don't have that many with us right now. They are all stored in the warehouse. Can I get the remaining gems for you when I get back?" Iron Fist said somewhat embarrassedly.

However, Shi Feng was shocked.

Converting these gems into gold coins would be about 30 gold, but 30 gold coins were only part of the Soul Crystal's value.

Shi Feng had already agreed to the exchange, so naturally he wouldn't go back on his word, and thus accepted all the gems.

He could see that Iron Fist and the others craved this gray crystal, and that Iron Fist and the others had come here to kill the Black Demon Serpent seemingly just for the gray crystal. However, this thing seemed useless to him, and he had three more here. If it was really useful in the future, he could come back and kill the Black Demon Serpent. He had God's Blessing, so getting a gray crystal would be a matter of minutes.

Afterward, Shi Feng followed Iron Fist and the others back to District Five.

District Five, to put it bluntly, was more like an area made up of a huge magic array. Inside this area was a small town, but there weren't many players in the town.

Although there weren't many players, the players here were very high-level, all above Level 26, which was better than the elite players of the guild, and their equipment was very good. Most of them were above Mysterious-Iron rank, and most of them were wearing Mithril equipment, meaning only Zero Wing's elite members could compare with these ordinary players.

"Why are there no NPC guards here?" Shi Feng walked on the street and looked around, but didn't find any NPC guards, so he asked Iron Fist.

NPC guards were generally there to maintain town security and prevent players from fighting each other.

Without NPC guards, it wouldn't be a good thing for ordinary players.

"NPC guards? What are those?" Iron Fist asked strangely.

"They are NPCs that maintain the town's security and prevent players from killing each other," Shi Feng said in surprise.

"We don't have them in District Five, because we are in a safe zone. All players in the safe zone can't attack each other, so the safe zone is very safe. Moreover, our District Five is very strong. The Soul Crystals we have stored can be used to build some new training grounds. As for District Six and District Seven, they can only protect themselves in the face of monster attacks," Iron Fist said proudly as he explained.

"I see," Shi Feng nodded, understanding more or less what was going on.

God's Domain, this game, has always been very mysterious, and the Main God System is constantly expanding God's Domain.

The regions where players are located are different, and even the gameplay will be slightly different.

Shi Feng had seen some before, but he didn't expect the difference in gameplay here to be so great.

The feeling here was more like players were building cities, guarding their own cities, and developing their own cities.

This was like a guild building its own town.

However, no guild in White River City was currently able to build its own city.

Afterward, Iron Fist and the others went to inquire about information for Shi Feng, while Shi Feng himself was collecting information about this place in the bar.

"Have you guys heard? Recently, our major districts are preparing to join forces to crusade against Graydark Mountain Valley. They are currently recruiting manpower. As long as we kill the Graydark Mountain Valley's Great Lord, Noya, we will be able to develop new maps." A Guardian Knight was chatting with his companions while drinking a glass of bright red wine in the bar.

"I heard that the top ten squads in our District Five can directly join the crusade force, but unfortunately, my squad is ranked outside of the top fifty, so I have to pass an assessment to join the crusade army," another Assassin said regretfully.

"Yes, as long as we kill the Great Lord Noya, we can get the Dark Chapter, which will make it easier to deal with beast attacks."

…

For a time, everyone began to talk about Graydark Mountain Valley.

"Dark Chapter?" Shi Feng heard the words Dark Chapter and suddenly thought of the Dark Book. "Could it be that the Dark Chapter has something to do with the Dark Book?"

His task was to obtain the Dark Book, but he didn't have any clues.

Right now, the Dark Chapter was an important clue.

"It seems I have to go to Graydark Mountain Valley." Shi Feng quietly pondered.