Chapter 1 The Holy City of Glory

Purple Thorns Kingdom, Holy City of Glory.

Shi Feng walked out of the teleportation hall. The entire town was built on a mountain, surrounded by tall city walls. Although it was only a border town, its defenses could rival a fortress.

"Huh, there are already so many players here?" Shi Feng looked in surprise at the thousands of players outside the teleportation hall.

The monsters around the Holy City of Glory were generally level 70 or higher, and the nearby neutral maps were even level 80 or higher. Level 60 players couldn't even survive on the map around the Holy City of Glory, let alone venture into the neutral maps. It wasn't a place where current players could easily go.

However, these players were generally level 56 or higher, with the highest level even reaching 59. Among them, there were over a hundred Tier 2 classes. Moreover, these players weren't wearing any guild emblems, indicating they were all free players.

Free players were generally weaker in terms of levels and equipment compared to guild members. Now that the major guilds hadn't even set foot here yet, free players had arrived first. How could Shi Feng not be surprised?

These people didn't seem surprised by Shi Feng's appearance and were all doing their own thing.

"Six-person team farming Wind Serpent monsters, still missing one healer, level 57 or higher required!"

"Cavern Black Bat quest, looking for two powerful DPS players level 57 or higher, Tier 2 class preferred!"

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Outside the teleportation hall, players were recruiting team members, either to farm monsters or do quests, as if they were doing something very normal.

If the expert players of Star-Moon Kingdom came here, they would definitely be shocked.

Whether it was the Wind Serpent or the Black Bats, these monsters were all level 70 or higher, exceeding the players' levels by at least ten levels, with a clear level suppression. Even level 60 Tier 2 class players would find it difficult to deal with, let alone Tier 1 players. However, these players didn't seem to care.

In less than a moment, these teams had assembled members and headed straight for the gates of the Holy City of Glory, ready to farm monsters and do quests...

"Is this really the Purple Thorns Kingdom?" Shi Feng stared blankly at the teams going to farm monsters.

It would be one thing if players didn't understand the situation around the Holy City of Glory, but he was quite familiar with it.

Although this was a border region, it was a place where the human race was constantly at war, always guarding against monster attacks from the Thorns Highland in the neutral map. Even the Holy City of Glory itself would occasionally be subjected to monster sieges. It could be said to be a very dangerous place, and generally only players around level 65 dared to set foot here.

The Wind Serpent was a level 72 leader monster, and although the Black Bats weren't leader monsters, they were special elite monsters that acted in groups, with the leading Great Black Bat being a leader monster.

These six-person teams or twenty-person teams might be able to deal with a single Wind Serpent or a batch of Black Bats alone, but it would be very difficult, and accidentally attracting other monsters, leading to a total wipe, was a very common occurrence.

It would be one thing if they had excellent equipment, but these players didn't. Their equipment was very ordinary. With such ordinary equipment, the speed of killing monsters would be very slow. The advantage of fighting monsters above their level would be gone. It would be better to kill monsters around level 60 to level up.

Moreover, Shi Feng discovered as he walked down the street that the players who had come to the Holy City of Glory weren't just those outside the teleportation hall. There were many other players on the other streets, all of them level 56 or higher. It was roughly estimated that there were more than 30,000 people in the entire Holy City of Glory, and everyone's level was above elite.

Such a concentration of elite players in an NPC town was probably rare even in the major empires, but it had appeared in the Holy City of Glory in the Purple Thorns Kingdom...

Just as Shi Feng was walking down the main street, trying to find out what was going on in the Holy City of Glory, he suddenly noticed that there were an unusually large number of players setting up stalls in the Holy City of Glory. They occupied an entire street, and the items they were selling were quite good, either rare herbs or high-level goods that were hard to find on the market.

The most surprising thing for Shi Feng was the super rare potions being sold.

Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion!

This potion, when drunk by a player, would allow the player to ignore seven monster levels, lasting for six hours.

Ignoring seven levels might not seem like much, but with *God's Domain* evolving to its current state, it was very difficult for Tier 1 players to kill monsters ten levels higher than themselves. Only Tier 2 classes could do it more easily. This ease wasn't because of the stat increase brought by the high monster level, but more because of level suppression, which reduced the damage players could deal.

However, after drinking this Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion, as long as a Tier 1 player's stats were strong enough and their combat level was high enough, they could also kill monsters ten levels higher, greatly increasing their leveling speed. It could be said to be the favorite of elite players and expert players.

"No wonder so many players here dare to farm monsters above their level." Shi Feng suddenly understood.

With the Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion, although it was far inferior to the domain magic array effect of the Void Domain, it was the best choice for ordinary elite and expert players.

This made Shi Feng head towards the stall selling the Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion.

There were already more than ten people lining up to buy it. These players were all expert players, each of them level 57 or higher, with the higher ones even being level 59 Tier 2 classes.

Domain magic scrolls like the Void Domain were very expensive and rare, but the Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion was very cheap. The production cost was only about seven or eight silver coins. The normal selling price was only about fifty silver coins. However, the recipe was very rare. It could only be found by opening treasure chests in maps above level 50, and items that increased luck were ineffective. Players could only rely on their own luck.

Any recipe could be sold for seven or eight hundred gold coins on the market, making it very rare and expensive.

The players selling the Beginner Grade Enhancement Potion were two people, a young man and a young woman. The man was handsome, and the woman was beautiful.

The man was named Qingfeng Xiao, a level 58 Tier 2 Assassin, with most of his equipment being level 50 Mysterious-Iron and Mithril grade, and some level 55 Mysterious-Iron grade equipment. This was already very rare for a current free expert.

As for the woman beside him, named Liang Xia, she was a level 57 Tier 1 Summoner. Her equipment wasn't inferior to Qingfeng Xiao's. However, unlike Qingfeng Xiao, she wasn't wearing a Tier 2 emblem but a Senior Alchemist's emblem.

"Why are these two here?" Shi Feng couldn't help but wonder after seeing the two's faces and names clearly.

He was very familiar with these two. After all, they were very famous in the Black Dragon Empire in his previous life. One was an expert who could be ranked in the top ten of the Black Dragon Empire's Assassin combat power list, and the other was an alchemy master, and not an ordinary beginner master, but a senior alchemy master. If you really had to say who the major forces cared more about, it would be Liang Xia, who was a senior alchemy master.

Although the two siblings were just free players, ordinary large guilds didn't dare to provoke them at all, because both of them had very strong combat power. The younger sister, Liang Xia, although not as good as Qingfeng Xiao, was also a master of the *Micro* Realm. Ordinary experts in large guilds were no match for her, not to mention Qingfeng Xiao, who was ranked in the top ten of the Assassin list.

Just as Shi Feng was wondering why the two were developing in the Purple Thorns Kingdom, a group of players suddenly walked over and surrounded them, directly surrounding the Qingfeng Xiao siblings' stall.

"Sin Domain is handling things! Everyone who has nothing to do with this, get out of here!"