Chapter 1 Aroused Curiosity

As soon as the system announcement from God's Domain was released, all the players in God's Domain became lively. Each and every one of them was filled with curiosity about the Auction Arena System, and the major powers immediately launched investigations.

The emergence of a new system is an opportunity for all players.

And for the major forces, the significance is even greater. It can be said to be a major reshuffle of the forces in God's Domain, so naturally, it has attracted much attention.

"It's starting so soon?" Shi Feng frowned as he looked at the system announcement.

After White River City was promoted, he already knew that the opening of the Auction Arena System was not far away, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

Although the opening of the Auction Arena System does not cause as much commotion as a system update in God's Domain, its influence is much higher than ordinary system updates.

This is because it is related to the control of NPC cities, allowing players to gain substantive control over NPC cities, that is, control over the city's economy.

As long as the economy of an NPC city is controlled by players, it will be difficult for other forces to shake that NPC city. Moreover, after obtaining the city's auction house, the income from it is also very considerable. The more players there are in a city, the more revenue they will receive.

Therefore, as soon as the Auction Arena opened, it immediately caused turmoil throughout God's Domain. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it opened a new era. At the same time, due to the opening of the Auction Arena, the competition between major forces became even more intense.

Moreover, this intensity is different from the past. Not only will the dark forces participate, but even the major adventurer groups will join in. After all, controlling the city's auction house does not require guild qualifications, nor does it require protection. Individual players can obtain it and earn a lot of money. Which player wouldn't want such a good thing?

In the past, in the battles between the major forces, each force would control itself to a level that would not damage its foundation. However, the opening of the Auction Arena has caused these forces to start fighting desperately. Even those large guilds that did not dare to attack super forces will now attack without hesitation.

It can be said that the great battle of God's Domain forces has only just begun!

After Shi Feng completed the transfer of the shop's operating rights with Baihua Gong, he directly used the City Return Scroll to return to White River City without staying in Silver Pine City for even a moment.

Star-Moon Kingdom, White River City.

As soon as Shi Feng walked out of the teleportation magic array, he found that there were even more players coming to White River City. Although the teleportation hall was already divided into several floors, a glance revealed that it was crowded with players everywhere. Among them, there were obviously many more merchant players and life occupation players.

However, compared to these players, the players from the major forces who came to White River City were the mainstream.

"As expected, they've all come to gather information."

Shi Feng glanced at the many players in black cloaks in the hall. Under the observation of the Eye of All-Knowing, the black cloaks were like decorations. He could clearly see the guild badges worn by these players in black cloaks. Many of these guild players were not from the Star-Moon Kingdom but from other kingdoms and empires. Some were even super forces and dark guilds.

Currently, there are only a hundred NPC cities in the entire God's Domain that have been promoted enough to open Auction Arenas. It can be said that on average, each kingdom and empire doesn't even get one.

And White River City is one of them. If major forces want to understand the news of the Auction Arena, they can only go to the auction house after the upgrade, so White River City has naturally become the target of major forces' investigations.

Afterward, Shi Feng walked to a high-end restaurant opened in the teleportation hall. At this time, in the VIP box of the restaurant, Melancholic Smile and more than thirty merchant players had been waiting for a long time.

"Guild Leader, all the two-star merchant members you asked me to find are here." Melancholic Smile looked at Shi Feng as he walked in and whispered to report.

"Very good. From now on, have them memorize all the materials on this list. Then, you use this Thunder Axe Crystal to send them all to Thunder Axe City. Have everyone try to acquire these materials from the NPC merchants, as much as you can get." Shi Feng nodded and handed a list of materials and a Thunder Axe Crystal to Melancholic Smile.

The battle for the Auction Arena not only relies on the players' combat skills, but to a large extent, it also depends on resources, because the use of resources can improve the players' strength during the battle, such as the most basic equipment unlocking.

In the Auction Arena, players' equipment is limited. Equipment exceeding Dark-Gold rank will be restricted to Dark-Gold rank. If you want to unlock the equipment level, you need to spend resources. This is why the outcome largely depends on resources.

With enough experts and resources, you can control more NPC cities.

However, not just any resource will do. Ordinary rare ores and materials are not accepted by the Auction Arena at all. You need epic-level materials. This is also why the major super forces have a great advantage in the Auction Arena.

Ordinary epic-level materials have a chance to drop from 50-man team dungeons at the Hard difficulty or higher, while 100-man team dungeons and 200-man team dungeons are guaranteed to drop them.

Ordinary large guilds have no problem clearing 50-man team dungeons, but 100-man Hard difficulty team dungeons are difficult. Only individual teams of the guild, or the main force, can do it. In contrast, the major super forces can clear many more teams, so in terms of resource accumulation, they are not comparable to ordinary large guilds.

Zero Wing's current top outdoor combat power is very strong, but when it comes to the number of teams clearing 100-man team dungeons, it is far behind those super forces.

But it is not that there are no other ways to obtain epic-level materials.

One of them is through transactions between merchant players and special NPC merchants. However, it takes a lot of time and requires the player merchant to reach two-star level. In super-large neutral cities like Thunder Axe City, there are many special NPC merchants. It can be said to be an excellent place to obtain epic-level materials.

Originally, he wanted to slowly accumulate epic-level materials from NPCs through two-star blacksmith shops, which is much easier than merchant players trading with NPC merchants. Now that the Auction Arena is open, he can only earn as much as he can. After all, the opening of the Auction Arena also means that the battle for the auction is about to begin.

Afterward, Shi Feng asked Melancholic Smile to send people to various cities to collect epic-level materials. Although the major forces will never sell epic-level materials to the public, it is also possible that some experts will get lucky and sell them.

After taking care of the matters in Thunder Axe City and collecting epic-level materials, Shi Feng also asked Aqua Rose and others to focus on clearing 100-man team dungeons. Afterward, Shi Feng returned to a forging room in Candlelight Firm and took out the Ancient Mystic Key from his backpack.

He didn't use it before because he hadn't raised his combat power to the limit. Using the Ancient Mystic Key easily would only waste a great opportunity. You must know that even the major super forces rarely encounter such opportunities in God's Domain. Now that his strength has been raised to the limit, and the holding time of the Ancient Mystic Key is also running out.

After Shi Feng clicked on the Ancient Mystic Key made of ruby, a silver-white magic array formed under Shi Feng's feet. The condensed terrifying magic even made the space feel frozen. After a moment, Shi Feng transformed into a black ray and disappeared into the forging room.