Chapter 1 The Success

After a burst of golden light enveloped Shi Feng, the entire team was bathed in the same glow, some even flashing twice in succession.

They instantly soared from Level 40 to Level 42.

The sheer amount of experience shocked everyone.

Just one Boss was enough to level them up at least once, and considering their current level, it usually took them several days of effort to gain just one level. Yet, it had happened in the blink of an eye…

"We did it!"

"We actually did it!"

The team watched the fallen Abyssal Dragon, erupting in excited cheers.

The Abyssal Dragon’s power had surpassed any monster they had faced before. It was a monster they shouldn’t have been able to handle at their current level, but they had done it. Although their victory was due to Shi Feng’s power, they were still ecstatic.

Because after the Abyssal Dragon died, everyone heard a system notification.

System: Congratulations to the player for obtaining the Dragon Slayer title. Players with this title will receive a 10% increase in Human Race Reputation.

Although the effect of this title didn’t provide any practical stat boost to players, it was an effect many players desired the most.

In God’s Domain, Human Race Reputation was crucial for every player.

Not only was a certain level of Reputation required to purchase land and property, but even without buying land and property, an increase in player Reputation could earn discounts when repairing in cities and purchasing NPC items, with the highest Reputation enjoying a 40% discount.

Although players now had more and more channels to earn money, and the money they obtained was also increasing, players were still severely lacking in funds.

Because in addition to ordinary consumables and food, the biggest expense was equipment repair. As equipment levels increased and equipment quality improved, the price required grew higher and higher.

Enjoying a 40% discount in the city could save a lot of money.

Moreover, as players leveled up, achieving the highest Reputation in just one city was far from enough, because many high-resource leveling areas were far from the cities players started in, making travel back and forth inconvenient. Therefore, players who wanted to level up quickly inevitably needed to have high Reputation in many cities.

However, Reputation was not easy to obtain. Even now, players in major cities were still struggling to improve their respective city Reputations.

Now, with the Dragon Slayer title, they could save a lot of effort, especially for free players like them.

However, compared to the title, everyone also noticed the items dropped by the Abyssal Dragon.

More than ten items!

With such a powerful monster, everyone knew the drops would be amazing. It wouldn’t be strange even if it dropped Epic-rank items.

Watching Shi Feng collect these items one by one, their mouths watered.

But You Baiye had already promised Shi Feng that all item drops would belong to him, so they could only watch with envy.

"Do you think that weapon will be an Epic-rank weapon?"

"Damn, look at that magic scroll. It can naturally induce the condensation of magic power. It must be at least a Tier 3 scroll."

"That dropped design is huge!"

Although everyone knew that everything belonged to Shi Feng, they were still very interested in what had been dropped.

Just as Shi Feng was picking up the scattered gold coins and items, he picked up a purplish-golden rhomboid token, with two words engraved on the token.

Promotion!

"This drop is just too awesome. It's truly worthy of being a Dragonkin creature." Shi Feng looked at the token, quickly suppressing the excitement in his heart. If You Baiye and the others weren’t present, he probably would have burst out laughing.

Because this Promotion Order was not an ordinary token, but a Shop Promotion Order, and not a Two-Star Promotion Order, but a Three-Star Shop Promotion Order.

In God’s Domain, Two-Star Shop Promotion Orders were very difficult to obtain.

The entire Star-Moon Kingdom, including the surrounding kingdoms, did not have any Two-Star Shops. Only the Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion in the Black Dragon Empire’s imperial capital had one, and it had only been promoted a few days ago. Furthermore, there were no other Two-Star Shops in the cities of the surrounding countries.

As for Three-Star Shops, don’t even think about it. They were items that couldn’t be obtained right now. Even if you wanted to obtain them, you would have to kill high-level Field Bosses or open treasure chests, or complete challenge quests.

Killing high-level Field Bosses was unrealistic, because only Tier 4 Field Bosses above Level 50 had a chance to drop them.

Opening treasure chests would require at least Dark-Gold Treasure Chests appearing in maps above Level 50.

If you accepted a challenge quest, the difficulty was close to a Legendary quest. The amount of gold coins required just to accept the quest was a daunting number for any major guild.

The Two-Star Shop established by the Black Dragon Empire was promoted by the Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion accepting a challenge quest. Even then, the Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion had to challenge three times to complete the quest, costing six thousand gold coins each time. This was a price that ordinary guilds could not afford. Only super-first-rate guilds and super guilds could even consider it. Other guilds could only stand aside. It was conceivable how difficult it was to promote to a Three-Star Shop…

Although promoting to a Three-Star Shop was very difficult, as long as a guild could afford the challenge fee, no guild would be unwilling to try.

Because Three-Star Shops were fundamentally different from Two-Star Shops.

The biggest difference was that when a shop was promoted to Three-Star, it could allow five One-Star Shops to be directly promoted to Two-Star Shops. This alone was enough to drive major guilds crazy.

In addition, the functions of Three-Star Shops were also more powerful than Two-Star Shops.

Two-Star Shops had Advanced Workshops, while Three-Star Shops had Basic Meditation Rooms.

Meditation Rooms, as the name implies, allowed players to calm their minds and think. Because there was a rich concentration of magic power in the Meditation Room, players could easily keep their minds clear, which could have a very good effect on the performance of their skills, unlike Advanced Workshops, which only changed the external environment to adjust their mood.

Of course, the Meditation Room had all the functions of an Advanced Workshop, so you could change the environment if you wanted.

This was also an important reason why those Lifestyle Master players were squeezing into high-star shops one after another. A good working environment was crucial for Lifestyle players.

The only regrettable thing about the Three-Star Shop's Basic Meditation Room was that there were two shortcomings.

The first was the energy consumption. To maintain the rich concentration of magic power in the room, it required a lot of Magic Crystals, 300 Magic Crystals per day. The market price of a Magic Crystal had already reached 25 Silver coins, so 300 Magic Crystals would be 75 Gold coins. If you couldn’t produce high-priced goods using the Meditation Room, you would lose money.

The second was the scarcity. It was even scarcer than the Two-Star Advanced Workshop. After all, there were five Two-Star Advanced Workshops, but there were only three Three-Star Basic Meditation Rooms. Faced with so many advanced Lifestyle players in the entire firm, there was a great imbalance between supply and demand.

"Well, it’s better than nothing. Let You Yuwei deal with these things." Shi Feng smiled, then put away the Promotion Order, already eager to return to White River City and promote Candlelight Trading Firm to Three-Star.

Among the many dropped items, in addition to the very valuable Three-Star Promotion Order, there were also two Tier 3 Magic Scrolls, four bottles of Advanced Secret Medicine, and three Forging Design Drawings. The rest were weapons and equipment, among which the most valuable were two Epic-rank items, a Scaled Armor Divine Rune Shield and a Cyan Water Robe.

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