Chapter 1 The Appearance of the Auction House

The official forum of the Zijing Kingdom was abuzz because of the Candlelight Auction House. Especially the ordinary free players, after seeing this post, rushed to the Glory Stone Fort at the first possible moment.

Usually, making money was too difficult, and there were many places to spend money in God's Domain. It was not easy to exchange credits for gold coins on ordinary days, because many studios and gold farming teams sold gold coins starting from five gold. This was not an amount that ordinary players could accept. Very rarely would one or fifty silver coins be sold. Ordinary players wanted to buy them to exchange for a Bronze or Mysterious-Iron ranked equipment, but it was too difficult to encounter such opportunities.

Although they would usually go to the auction houses in the towns of large guilds, there were too few items in these guild auction houses, and it was not easy to make a trip.

Now that the Candlelight Auction House had appeared in an NPC town, and there were a large number of items for sale, naturally, the vast majority of players couldn't sit still.

In less than half an hour, the Glory Stone Fort, which originally didn't have many players, suddenly became overcrowded. Everyone poured in, some selling items, some buying items. The liveliness of the players was even more exaggerated than that of Zero Wing City.

Looking at such a lively scene, Shi Feng in the auction house was also surprised.

According to the statistics in the auction house, in just over twenty minutes, the number of players selling items in the Candlelight Auction House reached more than 30,000, while the number of players buying exceeded 50,000. The handling fees earned from the transactions in this short period of time exceeded 200,000 credits, while the fees for consignment items exceeded hundreds of gold.

This money-making ability was even more powerful than the auction house in Zero Wing City.

"Guild Leader, what means did you use in the Zijing Kingdom? It's simply too amazing!" Melancholic Smile said excitedly, "Just now, thousands of new members have joined our Candlelight Auction House, not only giving us 40,000 Magic Crystals all at once, but also greatly increasing the total transaction volume of the auction houses in Zero Wing City, Silverwing Town, and Stone Forest Town, exceeding the usual amount by 30%!"

Although the previous Zero Wing City, Silverwing Town, and Stone Forest Town had considerable income from the auction houses, and could be said to be one of the main sources of credits for their Zero Wing Guild, the total transaction volume of the three places had now increased by 30%, and this trend was still rising. It was not impossible for it to account for half of Zero Wing's credit income in the future.

When that time came, they wouldn't have to rely on selling Mithril and Fine-Gold ranked weapons and equipment to maintain the huge training base. Perhaps they could even allow the training base to recruit more internal members.

"A 30% increase in transaction volume?" Shi Feng smiled. "It's still early. If development goes smoothly, it should be able to increase by more than 70%. By the way, you can have people collect Phantom Flowers as much as possible, as long as the unit price does not exceed five silver coins. Collect as much as you can!"

The convenience brought by advanced land was simply incomparable to ordinary guild cities, even Zero Wing City, which already had a population of tens of millions. After all, there was no second NPC town guild auction house in the entire Zijing Kingdom. This would cause a large number of players from the Zijing Kingdom to flock to the Glory Stone Fort. The daily player traffic alone would probably exceed that of Zero Wing City, not to mention that these players from the Zijing Kingdom were all coming for the Candlelight Auction House.

Melancholic Smile was stunned for a moment when she heard Shi Feng say an increase of more than 70%, not daring to believe it was true. If it could increase so much, then there would really be no need to worry about the operating costs of the training base.

"Phantom Flowers? Then I'll have someone start buying them through the Heavenly Secret Chamber of Commerce's channels now," Melancholic Smile said, nodding after a while.

"No! We can't buy Phantom Flowers from the Heavenly Secret Chamber of Commerce. This will attract the attention of some interested people. Have people secretly buy them in various kingdoms and empires. Try not to affect market prices when buying," Shi Feng stopped her.

Although Phantom Flowers didn't have anything particularly eye-catching, when Zero Wing bought them in large quantities from the Heavenly Secret Chamber of Commerce, it would definitely attract the attention of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion. At that time, it might affect his plan to hoard Phantom Flowers. He didn't want to take such a risk.

"I understand. Then I'll have someone secretly buy them now." Melancholic Smile understood after hearing Shi Feng's words, and then hung up the communication to arrange manpower.

In a bar not far from the Candlelight Auction House, a group of players in black cloaks had taken over the entire bar, observing every move of the Candlelight Auction House.

"Guild Leader Ironfang, I've already sent people to investigate, but I haven't obtained any secrets about building the auction house. I only know that Zero Wing transferred a group of builders from the Star-Moon Kingdom, who directly started building the auction house on that piece of land," a masked Tier 2 Assassin at level 58 reported. "In addition, Zero Wing's Residence has also been built in Glory Stone Fort. It seems they plan to recruit people in Glory Stone Fort and develop a branch guild here in the future."

"Good, Zero Wing! Too arrogant! Instead of developing properly in his Star-Moon Kingdom, he first came to the Zijing Kingdom to kill our Sin Domain's people, and then planned to recruit people and develop a branch guild in the Zijing Kingdom controlled by our Sin Domain. He really doesn't take our Sin Domain seriously!" Ironfang's eyes flashed with anger as he heard his subordinate's report.

"Guild Leader, why don't we just kill that Ye Feng now?" a Tier 2 Ranger at level 58 suggested.

"No! Wait a little longer, wait for him to leave Glory Stone Fort first!" Ironfang shook his head and said cautiously. "Although Glory Stone Fort is just a small town, it is an important border town. Moreover, he should be aware that he now has a tracking mark on him, and knows that we will attack him. He will definitely stay in places with many NPCs, accompanied by a large number of companions, until the Death Mark disappears. If we rashly attack, we are likely to be ambushed by Ye Feng like Broken Crocodile."

"What we have to do now is wait! Wait until the tracking mark disappears. At that time, that Ye Feng will definitely think that the tracking mark is gone, and he will be free, and he will act boldly. That will be the best time for us to take his life. You go and notify Hunting Feather now, and have him keep a close eye on that Ye Feng!"

"Yes!"

The Tier 3 Tracking Scroll used by Broken Crocodile was very rare, and the effect was very good, but the disadvantage was also obvious, that was, the player himself could detect it. However, the reason why their Sin Domain used such a Tracking Scroll was actually to make the player aware of it.

The real killer move was behind, that was, the special inheritance assassin that their Sin Domain Guild had obtained, which had cultivated a group of true tracking experts.

Hunting Feather was one of the best among them, a special profession that could stare at players without them being able to detect it, and launch a fatal blow at players from a great distance. It could be said to be a specialized type of Ranger, and the Tracking Scroll used at the beginning was just a double trap set up to allow the assassin to find the player.

Just as Sin Domain's Hunting Feather was secretly staring at Shi Feng, Shi Feng swaggered out of the Candlelight Auction House and headed to the Candlelight Firm not far away.

At this time, the Candlelight Firm had been completely built and tidied up. It had three floors in total. The first floor sold common items, the second floor sold valuable items manufactured by the Candlelight Firm, and the third floor was a workshop and warehouse.

All the NPC employees in the entire shop were in place. In addition, the Candlelight Firm members from White River City had also arrived, and all the items to be sold in Glory Stone Fort were placed in the store, only waiting for the opening of business.

After Shi Feng entered the Candlelight Firm, he handed over the task of collecting materials to the highly intelligent NPCs, focusing on collecting Phantom Flowers. As for the guild members, they were mainly responsible for managing the sale and manufacture of goods in the shop, so as not to expose the significance of the Candlelight Firm's existence in Glory Stone Fort.

"It's almost time to go to the Ice Volcano Mountain Range." After Shi Feng had dealt with all the matters in Glory Stone Fort, he looked at the time. The tracking mark had disappeared, so he put on a black cloak, secretly left Glory Stone Fort, and rode his mount towards the neutral map.

As soon as Shi Feng left Glory Stone Fort, Hunting Feather, who was staring at Shi Feng, contacted Ironfang.

"Guild Leader Ironfang, Ye Feng has secretly left Glory Stone Fort!" Hunting Feather said, looking at the red dot displayed on the system map.

"Good! He finally couldn't hold back. You follow closely, we're going over now!" Ironfang, who was drinking in the bar, suddenly stood up and laughed loudly.