Chapter 1 A Good Deal?

System: Congratulations to the player for being the first to accept a three-star special exploration mission. The player will receive two special options.

System: The first option will reduce the mission difficulty by 15% while keeping the mission rewards the same.

System: The second option will keep the mission difficulty the same, but the mission rewards will increase by one tier.

System: The player has ten minutes to consider. If no choice is made within ten minutes, the system will default to the same mission difficulty.

"There are such benefits?" Shi Feng looked at the system bar, slightly surprised.

In his previous life, he had also accepted three-star exploration missions, but there were no rewards. This was the first time he had been given a choice.

The exploration mission in Thunder Axe City was already more difficult than ordinary epic-level missions, but the rewards were only epic-level. However, the lasting effects it brought were excellent, and it also allowed him to take the initiative in Thunder Axe City, which made its value extraordinary.

Now, if the difficulty was reduced by 15%, it would undoubtedly lower the difficulty to epic-level, giving him an even greater chance of completing it. However, choosing to keep the difficulty the same would directly increase the rewards by one tier, from epic-level to quasi-legendary. Such a reward was equally tempting, especially since he had come to do the mission knowing the difficulty.

After thinking for a moment, Shi Feng chose the second option: same difficulty, but the mission rewards increase by one tier.

The main reason he came to do the mission was to acquire the resources of Thunder Axe City, but more importantly, it was for the mission rewards. Although the Adventurer's Association didn't say it, he knew what the reward was.

It was a player transformation slot!

In God's Domain, it was not easy to transform into a neutral race, especially a race with powerful talents. The more powerful the race, the more difficult the transformation mission. However, the reward for the Thunder Axe City mission directly gave players a transformation slot. They didn't need to do a mission and could directly transform, immediately becoming a combat force.

Completing this exploration mission in Thunder Axe City would grant a thousand transformation slots, allowing the guild's melee members to directly become giants. While this would prevent them from entering most NPC cities, they could still enter guild cities and neutral maps.

Having powerful MTs (Main Tanks) would make it easier to deal with bosses in both team dungeons and the open world. After all, the giants' racial talents were simply too good, unlike half-elves and half-orcs, which offered almost no improvement to basic stats and mainly improved the five senses and magic adaptability to strengthen combat power. The giants were different.

If a Tier 1 MT transformed into a giant, their strength and defense would immediately be comparable to a Tier 2 MT, and their health would increase significantly, but their speed and reaction speed would decrease greatly, and it would become more difficult to advance in the future.

If a Tier 2 MT transformed into a giant, although they wouldn't reach the level of a Tier 3 MT, they would be far from what even the best Tier 2 MT could compare to.

Back then, those thousand slots had greatly increased the strength of the super guild that completed the mission, and their development speed was much faster than other super guilds. Even though other super guilds later sent many experts to do transformation missions, the transformation missions took too long and couldn't catch up with that advantage.

After making his choice, the beautiful receptionist NPC took out an earthy-yellow, ancient magic scroll and handed it directly to Shi Feng.

"Respected Slayer, this magic scroll can temporarily解除 (jiechu - remove) the sealing magic array on the road, but it can only be used once. Please use it carefully. If it runs out and you want to replenish it, it will cost a thousand magic crystals to make another one," the beautiful NPC explained respectfully.

"Understood." Shi Feng nodded as he accepted the magic scroll.

Exploration missions given by the association were not like other accepted missions. Failure would result in system penalties. The association's missions only resulted in the loss of some money or magic crystals and would not affect the player's basic stats. This was the main reason why most players liked to accept Adventurer's Association missions.

Immediately, Shi Feng left the Adventurer's Association and went straight to the Teleportation Hall to teleport to a small border town of the Zijing Kingdom, the closest to the Ice Volcano Mountains.

This incident caused quite a stir in the Adventurer's Association. After all, just accepting a mission required a deposit of a thousand gold, so it was easy to imagine that the mission would not be simple. This made many players in the Adventurer's Association try to find the mission.

Although some missions in the Adventurer's Association could not be accepted by multiple players, the missions would be displayed. Unless the player completed the mission, the mission would be withdrawn. If it was not completed, it would show that someone had accepted the mission and was still executing it, so it was still possible to check.

"What's going on? Why isn't this mission in the exploration missions?"

"Could it be that our level isn't high enough?"

"No way, I'm a two-star member in the Adventurer's Association. Does that person have three stars? That's three stars! Even if the top experts of first-rate guilds crazily do Adventurer's Association missions, it's impossible to reach three-star so quickly!"

"A three-star mission? Who exactly is that person?"

...

As Shi Feng left, the players in the Adventurer's Association began to discuss, curious about who had accepted the mysterious exploration mission.

This news quickly spread to the Starlight Alliance's residence in Star-Moon City.

"I never expected that there would be such a big mission hidden in the Adventurer's Association. Have someone notify Chi Yu and the others to speed up and raise their level to three-star as soon as possible," Xinghe Wangxi said slowly as he sat in the guild leader's office, looking at the intelligence just sent over by his subordinates.

Generally, guilds divide their members into multiple teams to develop. Some teams specialize in Adventurer's Association missions, some teams go out into the wilderness to do special missions, or specialize in missions to improve city reputation, allowing the guild to develop in multiple lines with specialized development to gain a greater advantage. Unlike free players, who sometimes do missions here and sometimes do missions there, although there are improvements, the development of status and reputation is very slow.

"Then I'll go notify Chi Yu and the others!" Zhitong, wearing a gorgeous dark blue mage robe, responded, "Guild Leader, besides this, what should we do about Witch Hill? The guilds in those two small towns have sent us invitations, asking us to join them, and I heard that there are already consortiums supporting these two small towns. Even the first-rate guild Sin Domain of the Zijing Kingdom has joined. Otherwise, should we join them too?"

Currently, the entire Witch Hill has become the center of the Star-Moon Kingdom. After all, it can produce Ancient Crystal Fragments, and players can enter the Otherworld Gate once they reach Tier 2, where the resources are very abundant.

If they can gain a foothold in Witch Hill, it will be of considerable help to the guild's future development.

"Sin Domain?" Xinghe Wangxi shook his head when he heard this. "Let's take a look first. Reply to them that our guild still has some important matters to complete and cannot join them for the time being."

"Are we really going to give up such a good opportunity for development?" Zhitong asked, puzzled.

"I received news from Tianji Pavilion that there seems to be a Shadow of the Evil God behind this Sin Domain, and I don't think Zero Wing will let the two small towns continue to grow," Xinghe Wangxi said with a smile. "If the two small towns can hold on at that time, it won't be too late for us to join."

"I understand." Zhitong nodded and replied to the people in the two small towns.

The high-level members of the guilds in the two small towns in Witch Hill also received Xinghe Wangxi's replies at the same time.

"Rejected?"

"How timid. They actually gave up such a good opportunity. It seems they're afraid of being beaten by Zero Wing."

"I think so too. Is that what you call a first-rate guild?"

"It doesn't matter if the Starlight Alliance doesn't join. After it's done, not only will we be able to destroy Zero Wing City, but we'll also have less to share. Let Xinghe Wangxi regret it!"

In a secret conference room, the high-level members of the major forces looked at the map of Witch Hill on the table, and a smug smile appeared on the corners of their mouths.