Chapter 1 Blackwater Consortium's Methods

"The Blackwater Consortium sure has some good tricks up its sleeve!" After listening to the explanations from several elders, Bai Qingxue glanced at the gloomy, short-haired youth sitting across from her.

In the virtual gaming world, almost all mainstream guilds are structured as joint-stock companies, with very few wielding absolute power.

Guilds that develop to the scale of Zero Wing are even rarer.

Let alone first-rate guilds.

Although a first-rate guild is essentially a company and can earn a considerable amount of money, they invest heavily when entering a super-large virtual game to fund the guild's initial development in the game.

"God's Domain" is a very special virtual game. Even with the financial resources of a first-rate guild, they require additional capital injection from their backing companies after entering "God's Domain" to expand their reach within the game, covering a kingdom or even several kingdoms. Second-rate guilds, on the other hand, have limited funds, only covering a dozen or so cities.

Because of this, most of the shares of Snake Worship are held by these companies.

As long as several companies make a joint decision, even she, as the Guild Leader, can't change anything and can only accept it.

However, Bai Qingxue didn't expect the Blackwater Consortium to be so despicable as to resort to such means to force Snake Worship to submit. Generally, world-class conglomerates wouldn't bother with such tactics, as it would only make them a laughingstock among other conglomerates.

"Guild Leader Bai, how have you considered it?" The gloomy, short-haired youth didn't care about Bai Qingxue's sarcasm and instead sneered, "I know this decision is difficult, especially since it was brought up so suddenly. How about this, we can give you three days to think it over. If Guild Leader Bai still chooses to refuse after three days, then someone else will have to sit in the position of Guild Leader of Snake Worship."

After the gloomy, short-haired youth finished speaking, he smiled and left the meeting room, with two level 39 expert players closely following behind him.

"Brother Yi Tao, why don't we just let Bai Qingxue go? That way, you can take over Snake Worship, right?"

"Giving her three days, what if she sways those fence-sitters or buys enough shares from them at a high price? It will be difficult for us to seize Snake Worship."

The two burly men beside him asked the gloomy, short-haired youth curiously.

The Blackwater Consortium's initial goal was to completely control the entire Star-Moon Kingdom, turning it into a backyard, and using the Star-Moon Kingdom as a springboard to gradually control the Black Dragon Empire.

They wouldn't let Snake Worship survive just because Bai Qingxue agreed to their conditions. With Bai Qingxue directing everything, it would be absorbed by the new guild formed by Blackwater, completely becoming Blackwater's property. So, there was no need to care whether Bai Qingxue agreed or not.

"You think I'm giving Bai Qingxue three days?" Qi Yitao, the short-haired youth, curled his lips and said disdainfully, "I'm just giving everyone in Snake Worship time to adapt. If Bai Qingxue is suddenly removed from the position of Guild Leader, it will definitely cause a commotion, not only demoralizing the guild but also making it difficult for me to reorganize. Now that I'm giving Bai Qingxue three days, everyone in Snake Worship will definitely know about this news, and when we take over Snake Worship, their resistance will be much less."

"And most importantly, Young Master Jing hasn't sent me enough manpower to take over Snake Worship yet. In these three days, the people taking over should be arriving soon. By then, Star-Moon City will be ours. Before long, the entire Star-Moon Kingdom will become our property."

"Brother Yi Tao, what about Zero Wing, the number one guild in the Star-Moon Kingdom? Aren't we going to talk to them? I heard that Zero Wing Guild is very tough, and the Guild Leader has absolute power. Taking them down will probably be much more difficult than Snake Worship."

"Young Master Jing has other arrangements for Zero Wing, so we don't need to worry about it," Qi Yitao said nonchalantly. "How are those people that Young Master Jing arranged to come over adapting?"

"Brother Yi Tao, don't worry. With our experts watching over them, they are improving every day. In addition to the collected combat videos and the Trial Tower, I think they should quickly adapt to the combat style in 'God's Domain'. As long as their levels go up, they will definitely become the guild's biggest trump card." The burly man beside him said excitedly.

The Blackwater Consortium is different from those energy conglomerates and is considered a conglomerate that is very adaptable to the game "God's Domain".

After all, the Blackwater Consortium was originally a world-class conglomerate involved in martial arts competitions. The Blackwater Martial Arts Centers and fitness centers it has established cover the entire world and are one of the organizers of every World Fighting Championship.

Compared to the childish fighting style of "God's Domain", it is too easy for Blackwater to dominate "God's Domain".

If it weren't for the emergence of the mental space system, Blackwater wouldn't bother to actually enter "God's Domain". At most, they would treat it as an entertainment diversion after the fighting competition to relax a bit.

Just after Qi Yitao and the others left, the entire Snake Worship was thrown into chaos, and they no longer had time to care about the newly released regional dungeon, the Necropolis Grand Canyon.

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At this time, Shi Feng had already arrived in the magic district of Blackwing City.

Blackwing City is not like ordinary NPC cities, which are divided into noble districts and civilian districts. Anyone who can come to Blackwing City, whether NPC or player, is not simple. Even nobles from kingdoms and empires are just ordinary people to Blackwing City.

In the magic district of Blackwing City, there are magic shops opened by NPCs everywhere. There are at least a hundred shops in the entire district. They not only sell various magical items for daily life but also sell magic scrolls. Some rare magic scrolls cannot be bought in ordinary NPC cities. One of Blackwing City's specialties is the Exorcism Scroll.

Initially, players thought that the Exorcism Scroll was a very useless magic scroll, as it could only drive away some low-intelligence monsters. However, as players' levels increased, the map levels they went to also became higher and higher, and they encountered fewer and fewer low-intelligence monsters. So, they didn't need any Exorcism Scrolls at all, not to mention that Exorcism Scrolls were so expensive.

It wasn't until the Exorcism Scroll was used to protect the town that it truly began to become popular.

As a rare magic scroll in Blackwing City, the Exorcism Scroll cannot be purchased indefinitely. There is a fixed quantity every day, and there is only one magic shop that sells Exorcism Scrolls, so it is not easy to find.

Only twenty scrolls are sold per day!

Twenty Exorcism Scrolls are more than enough to protect a small town, but there are too many guilds in "God's Domain", and there are quite a few that have established towns. Some towns will be attacked by monsters for special reasons. If they can't cope with it suddenly, using the Exorcism Scroll to alleviate the situation in time can save the town's life. After that, they just need to send stronger forces to guard it.

Just as Shi Feng walked into the magic shop that sold Exorcism Scrolls, several players were already waiting quietly in the shop. When they saw Shi Feng come in, they all looked at Shi Feng.

"Why are the people from Saint's Hand here?" Shi Feng couldn't help but wonder when he saw the players in the shop.

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