Chapter 1 The City of Emerald Lagoons

The Sea of Illusions, Emerald Lagoon City.

Shi Feng, disguised as a level 61 Swordsman, walked along the street. The Sea of Illusions was different from the kingdoms and empires of God's Domain. It was a neutral area composed of merchant alliances, mainly sea areas, with only a few cities on land. Most of the cities and towns were scattered on the islands of the sea.

Because of this, the vast majority of players willing to come to the Sea of Illusions were merchant players and free players. Guild forces were unwilling to come here at all, and the major cities were controlled by adventurer teams.

Emerald Lagoon City was the number one city in the Sea of Illusions.

Merchant players and free players who came here for the first time would be amazed by the scenery.

Merchant players could be said to be the mainstream on the streets, with free players making up the rest. Players wearing guild badges were very rare.

"Massive purchase of sea creature weapons! 50 silver coins per weapon! Also selling Violetfire Crystals!"

"Massive sale of ocean pearls! 5% discount for purchases of 100 or more!"

"Urgently selling three sea creature weapons, 1 gold and 70 silver takes them all!"

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Stalls lined both sides of the street, and the items for sale were all kinds of things, completely unlike the cities of the kingdoms and empires.

"Sea creature weapons?" Shi Feng stopped when he heard the cries from both sides of the street.

He vaguely remembered that sea creature weapons were very popular in God's Domain in his previous life, and once became the most desired weapon for players at sea.

The reason for this was that sea creature weapons were special and could be entrusted to the NPC blacksmiths of the Sea of Illusions to forge sea creature weapons into weapons for players. This allowed them to exert more powerful combat power at sea. Generally speaking, for weapons of the same quality, weapons made from sea creature weapons could increase a player's combat power by 15% to 20%, which was a very large increase for players.

However, it was not easy to create high-quality sea weapons, and there was only a certain chance of success. For example, to create a level 60 Mithril weapon, three sea creature weapons were needed, and the success rate was only 50%. To create a level 60 Fine-Gold weapon, five level 60 sea creature weapons were needed, and the success rate was only 30%. Not to mention Dark-Gold grade. In addition, the higher the level of the crafted weapon, the lower the success rate of the same quality. Sea creature weapons only had a certain chance of dropping when killing sea creatures above level 50, so the finished weapons on the market were very expensive.

Besides being able to be made into sea weapons, Shi Feng knew of one other use for sea creature weapons.

Exchange for Arcane Methods!

Arcane Methods were super rare in God's Domain, even rarer than combat techniques. They greatly improved players and were a kind of ability burst. Unlike burst skills, which could not be used in many places, the essence of Arcane Methods was very similar to combat techniques. You could use them however you wanted, even in a magic-forbidden state.

The only cost was the player's stamina and mental strength, and the more powerful the Arcane Method, the greater the consumption. In addition, Arcane Methods were not like combat techniques. Players could not use them if they did not master them. Arcane Methods could be used directly as long as they were obtained, but the consumption was much greater than that of combat techniques.

In addition, there was one biggest drawback: Arcane Methods were guaranteed to drop after being killed by a player!

But even so, Arcane Methods were still something that countless experts in God's Domain dreamed of, because Arcane Methods brought too many advantages to players.

The improvement in ability was different from the improvement in attributes. It was a qualitative change in physique, equivalent to a great burst of the player's potential. While becoming stronger, they could also see their shortcomings more clearly.

Because of this, Arcane Methods had become something that countless players craved, and their value was far above combat techniques.

Sea creature weapons could be exchanged for Arcane Methods, although the number was very limited, and the exchange was also very troublesome.

But Shi Feng didn't care.

If it were before, he might have had a headache, but now he felt indifferent, because exchanging for Arcane Methods required two conditions: first, find the NPC to exchange for Arcane Methods, and second, meet the exchange conditions.

The exchange conditions were only two: one was sea creature weapons, and the other was elemental cores.

Currently, probably no player in the entire God's Domain knew where the NPC to exchange for Arcane Methods was, but he knew. As for the sea creature weapons and, most importantly, the elemental cores, they were not a problem.

Immediately, Shi Feng spent 10 silver coins to set up a stall directly in the business center of Emerald Lagoon City.

"Massive purchase of sea creature weapons, 60 silver coins per weapon, limited purchase, first come, first served!"

Shi Feng's shout immediately attracted the attention of players on the street. The normal purchase price was 50 silver coins, and many people's selling price was less than 60 silver coins. Now that someone was willing to buy them for 60 silver coins, it naturally aroused their interest.

In just a short while, a large number of players came to sell sea creature weapons, and the gold coins stored in Shi Feng's stall were frantically decreasing.

In less than an hour, Shi Feng had acquired a full 4,352 sea creature weapons, spending more than two thousand gold coins, almost all the sea creature weapons that could be obtained in Emerald Lagoon City. Seeing that there were almost none left, Shi Feng closed the stall and changed his appearance again in a hotel.

When Shi Feng left the hotel, he found several players staring at the gate of the hotel from the corner of the street. They were obviously very interested in him, who had bought a large number of sea creature weapons, and wanted to know why he was buying so many sea creature weapons.

Shi Feng was already used to this. He directly found another secret place and used the Seven Luminaries Ring to teleport away from Emerald Lagoon City.

After using the Seven Luminaries Ring to teleport four times in a row, Shi Feng arrived at a volcanic island with levels ranging from 80 to 100. The monsters inside were all extraordinary. The lowest were Leader-grade monsters, and they had the combat level of the third floor of the Trial Tower. Ordinary Tier 2 players of the same level would have a hard time dealing with them.

The NPC to exchange for Arcane Methods was in a secret room in the volcano. In his previous life, if a player hadn't accidentally discovered the secret room while doing a rare quest, they would never have discovered that there was an NPC there.

Soon, Shi Feng used Wind Domain to fly all the way into the cave in the crater, killing hundreds of Level 83 or higher Lord-ranked Lava Monsters along the way. Finally, he arrived at a hidden secret room. Although these were all Lord-ranked monsters, they dropped almost nothing. Besides some ordinary materials, they didn't even drop a single piece of equipment. On the contrary, Shi Feng finally leveled up from Level 70 to Level 71.

Opening the secret room, the small, dark secret room was empty. There was only a towering stone platform.

Shi Feng walked to the stone platform, feeling a little excited. He spent one hundred magic crystals to light the candle on the stone platform.

In his previous life, the Arcane Methods had all been exchanged by the players who discovered this place. Afterwards, although a little Arcane Method would be refreshed from time to time, these Arcane Methods were all taken by super forces, and they had nothing to do with small guilds like theirs. At most, they could only watch from the sidelines.

As the candle was lit, a magical storm suddenly swept through the secret room. A semi-transparent figure gradually emerged. It was a Tier 2 Mage with a level of only 80, but if you used the Eye of Omniscience to view it, you would find that this NPC was a Tier 5 Saint Magister with a level as high as 180.

If players wanted to take advantage of him, the consequences would only be death, and they would die miserably.

"Young adventurer, have you awakened me?" Horace's eyes, flashing with deep blue flames, quietly stared at Shi Feng, his voice as cold and desolate as ice.

"Yes, respected Mr. Horace." Shi Feng nodded respectfully.

As a deceased person, Horace could be said to be very resentful of the living. If he didn't show respect, he might not get anything.

"Very well, I was hunted down and killed by the Sea Creature King before I died. Now I want to take revenge on the sea creatures, but I can't leave here. I want you to kill those sea creatures and avenge me. As proof of killing the sea creatures, you can bring the unique weapons of the sea creatures, and I will not mistreat you." Although Horace spoke very calmly, the anger in his eyes was unmistakable.

System: Player accepts the Epic quest "Rage of the Dead," kill sea creatures and obtain three thousand sea creature weapons, reward unknown.