In God's Domain, mining and herb gathering were a path to riches for many players.

For ordinary players, there were few ways to make money. They mainly relied on rewards from quests. Ordinary monsters rarely dropped money. Only elite-level monsters had a higher chance of dropping money, but it was only about two or three percent more, and the money dropped was all copper coins.

As for earning materials dropped from monsters, that chance was even lower than dropping money...

When players first entered God's Domain, grinding ordinary monsters was just enough to cover the repair costs of weapons and equipment. However, as their levels increased and their equipment became better, the money earned from grinding ordinary monsters was not enough for the repair costs. Generally, only grinding elite-level monsters could barely cover the costs. If they were lucky enough to drop a Bronze-grade weapon or equipment, they could not only cover the repair costs for the day but also make a small profit.

Unfortunately, this kind of good thing only happened when God's Domain was first opened.

Every time God's Domain evolved, the Main God System would lower the drop rate of weapons and equipment. Now that God's Domain had evolved so many times, it was difficult to drop Bronze-grade weapons and equipment even from elite-level monsters. Generally, they could only be obtained from wild Bosses or dungeons.

That was why lifestyle occupations became popular.

And the development of lifestyle occupations mainly relied on various materials.

Generally, players who were active in the wild would always pay attention to the surrounding environment. This was not only to guard against monster and player ambushes, but more for ores and herbs.

A gathering player who was familiar with the environment could earn more money in a day by gathering raw materials than the elite members of a guild.

In God's Domain, Shi Feng often heard that many gathering players could exchange for good weapons and equipment just by gathering ores and herbs. Even many large guilds and merchant firms would sign agreements with these master gathering players. As long as they guaranteed a sufficient supply every month, they would not only buy at market prices but also pay a certain amount of Credits.

Therefore, in God's Domain, players generally had high mining and herb gathering levels.

If the yuantie (elemental iron) ore vein was real, it would be easy to hire a large number of players with high mining levels to mine it. The Magic Crystals earned would definitely be much more than in Stone Forest Town. After all, Stone Forest Town only allowed players to pay for repair costs with Magic Crystals. The number of Magic Crystals that could be earned could not be compared with the number earned by many players entering the Stoneclaw Mountains.

"Originally, my plan was to obtain a large number of gold coins from the Dark Arena, but the background of Zero Wing Guild really exceeded my expectations. It's not that I haven't thought about cooperating with super guilds, but super guilds are too powerful, so powerful that even our Dark鴉 (Dark Crow) Guild might not be able to defend this town. And even if we really cooperated, with the appetite of those super guilds, the benefits that Dark鴉 could earn would definitely be much less."

"Although there are a few other forces besides super guilds that can cooperate, the gold coins that these forces can come up with are definitely not as good as your Zero Wing Guild."

"What do you think? If you cooperate with our Dark鸦, Zero Wing will not only no longer be short of Magic Crystals in the future, but Candlelight Firm will also have enough yuantie ore. The gold coins earned will definitely far exceed these 100,000 gold."

Bloodfang felt that the conditions he had proposed were very generous. A rising guild like Zero Wing had no reason to refuse.

Currently, Zero Wing Guild didn't have many industries. It was extremely difficult to invest in and buy good properties in other kingdoms and empires. These properties had already been divided up by the major local guilds. How could they be left for other guilds? As for golden lands like those in imperial and royal capitals, although there were some vacant ones, they couldn't be bought even with money without a sufficiently high city reputation.

By the time someone from Zero Wing Guild obtained such a high reputation, those lands would probably have already been bought.

In other words, Zero Wing Guild should have a lot of spare money on hand now, but it couldn't effectively use this spare money to make money and earn more and more.

But there was no way around it. After all, Zero Wing was a rising guild, and its channels for making money were not as good as those of the established second-rate guilds, let alone first-rate guilds and super guilds.

If the gold coins earned were kept in hand, the end result would only be devaluation.

This was why super guilds with vast industries clearly earned massive amounts of gold coins, but didn't have much liquid money on hand. Because these super guilds had already turned these gold coins into more valuable things, especially potential lands in various cities.

Zero Wing investing its surplus gold coins into Dark鴉 was undoubtedly a win-win situation. In Bloodfang's view, Zero Wing Guild had no reason to refuse.

"Guild Leader Bloodfang, I still say the same thing. 100,000 gold coins is not 100,000 copper coins. Even super guilds can't easily take out this amount, let alone our Zero Wing Guild." Shi Feng shook his head and said, "Besides, the share you're offering is only 20%. I don't know how many days it will take to break even. God's Domain is changing every day. Our Zero Wing Guild doesn't dare to gamble like this. How about we change the way we cooperate?"

"If you're talking about investing manpower, then forget it. With the current level of players, this town can't be defended at all. The number and level of the monsters can only be defended by NPC guards, and a large number of them are needed. After the fifteen-day protection period, it can't be defended by players' strength alone. Extremely powerful defense magic arrays and guard turrets are needed, and these require a lot of gold coins." Bloodfang shook his head.

If he wasn't in desperate need of a large sum of gold coins right now, he really wouldn't cooperate with Zero Wing. Instead, he would digest all the profits from the town himself.

In God's Domain, no force would complain about having too much money, let alone the necessary resource of Magic Crystals.

"Sure enough, the monsters are extraordinary?" From Bloodfang's words, Shi Feng faintly heard the truth about the destruction of the town, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

In the previous life, towns near rare mineral deposits and rare medicine fields were often harassed by monsters.

Not to mention the very precious Magic Crystal ore veins, there would be monster attacks almost every day. For guilds that owned these mineral deposits, it was commonplace.

In the early days, the major guilds were troubled when they occupied these towns. It could be said that the money they earned was used for the town's defense projects, and they even lost a lot of money.

As Bloodfang said, building a Tier 3 magic defense array in the town required 32,000 gold, which could resist any monster below Tier 4 level 200, but it consumed a considerable amount of mana.

As for defense turrets, building one required 7,000 gold.

Generally, monsters attacked the town from all directions. Even if there was one defense turret in each direction, four would be needed. Moreover, the shells for the defense turrets were very expensive. One shell cost 5 gold coins according to the market price, and some of the higher quality ones cost dozens of gold coins. Opening the turrets was not fighting a war, it was simply throwing gold coins.

Moreover, one turret in each direction was not enough. At least two were needed to be safe.

This would cost almost 88,000 gold.

No wonder Bloodfang asked for 100,000 gold to invest.

But the wisdom of players was infinite. In the previous life, major guilds had also gone through countless experiments and explorations, and finally found a way to not only avoid spending high construction costs, but also to effectively resist those swarming monsters.

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