Chapter 1 Building a City?

As Shi Feng spoke, Grand Elder Adolf of the Divine Will Tribe was stunned for a moment, his gaze involuntarily shifting to Aqua Rose and the others behind Shi Feng.

He felt like Shi Feng was joking with him.

If Yuan Xiaoqian were present and heard Shi Feng say this, she would definitely think Shi Feng was out of his mind or dreaming.

Although both the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent allowed for the construction of guild towns or the occupation of towns belonging to God's Domain forces, the abundance of magical creatures in the Western Continent made guild towns far scarcer than in the Eastern Continent.

This was because the towns of kingdoms and empires were almost entirely managed by the Adventurer's Association, which in turn assigned the task of safeguarding the towns to various guilds, forcing the major guilds in the Western Continent to dedicate a large number of personnel to manage and maintain the guild's position and control over the towns.

As a result, the major forces in the Western Continent were severely short of manpower, and few were able to establish their own guild towns.

In addition to the lack of manpower, there was another important reason why major forces were unwilling to build their own towns.

That was the army of magical creatures!

The attacks of the magical creature army were not limited to attacking the towns along the border. They would occasionally attack towns inland within the kingdoms and empires. Therefore, whether forces built towns within the kingdoms and empires or outside them, they had to face the army of magical creatures every now and then.

This kind of magical creature army was not comparable to a simple monster siege. These were armies like NPCs, only this army was composed of various magical creatures.

The battles were no different from those of NPC sieges. The magical creature army even used war weapons, making them anything but mindless monster hordes.

And when guild towns faced these magical creature armies, they were not like NPC towns, which had a large number of NPCs to assist in the battle, making it much easier to defend. Guild towns could only rely on hired NPC guards and their own guild's strength to resist. The difficulty was far greater, and the manpower required was considerable.

Therefore, few forces in the entire Western Continent established guild towns. Any force capable of establishing its own guild town was an absolute power in the Western Continent, at least at the level of a first-rate guild. And even then, it was only one guild town. Those with two guild towns were top-tier first-rate guilds, practically super-forces.

Yet Shi Feng was talking about building a city in the Western Continent. If it were other forces' executives, they would probably have kicked Shi Feng out directly.

Because this wasn't cooperation, it was robbery!

"Guild Leader Black Flame, are you aware of the situation here in the Western Continent? Establishing a guild town here is much more difficult than you imagine. Even our Divine Will Tribe only has five guild towns in the Western Continent right now," Grand Elder Adolf said calmly, looking at Shi Feng and explaining.

In the Western Continent, establishing a guild city wasn't difficult. What was difficult was defending it.

The manpower and resources required were beyond the imagination of ordinary forces.

Shi Feng only had ten people at this time. Even if Shi Feng's strength was heaven-defying, they would still need to send a large number of people to guard it. The resources spent might not be much lower than what they would earn from cooperating with Shi Feng. After all, Zero Wing was only a quasi-super force in the Eastern Continent with a limited sphere of influence and limited access to resources.

Moreover, the resources they earned were a minor issue. The key was that people would be tied up, reducing the number of people they could use in the future, making it a losing proposition.

"I am aware of the difficulty of establishing a guild town in the Western Continent, which is why I need the assistance of the Divine Will Tribe." Shi Feng nodded and smiled. "If successful, I can purchase rare materials worth three million magic crystals at market price!"

He knew a little about the situation in the Western Continent and naturally knew how difficult it was to establish a guild city there, let alone a guild like Zero Wing with no foundation in the Western Continent. That was just wishful thinking.

However, this was necessary for Zero Wing's future development. Otherwise, Zero Wing, with no foothold in the Western Continent, would be controlled by others, even if it could travel back and forth between the two continents.

This was why all the super-forces that could travel between the two continents had to establish strongholds. The best example was the Magic Stone Town established by the Azure Chamber of Commerce outside the Fire Dragon Empire.

With its own economic and trade zone, countless forces and players would come to do business. Even if some forces were jealous and wanted to restrain it, they couldn't.

In addition to this problem, there was an even bigger one.

That was that more and more forces would be able to travel back and forth between the two continents in the future, and his competitive pressure would increase. Even the Divine Will Tribe itself could go to the Eastern Continent in the future, and then he would be out of the picture.

So if he didn't hurry up and establish his own city in the Western Continent now, he wouldn't even get a hair in the future.

"Three million magic crystals?" Grand Elder Adolf's eyes widened and his breathing became heavy when he heard this. He didn't expect Zero Wing to have such incredible wealth. "Guild Leader Black Flame, are you serious?"

Magic crystals were the absolute hard currency of the Western Continent. Many rare materials couldn't be bought with gold coins, but they could definitely be bought with magic crystals. Sellers would even beg to sell, and buyers might not even be willing.

The Western Continent was not like the Eastern Continent. Not only were magic crystals scarcer, but the demand for them was also greater. For example, the battle magic runes used by the members of major forces were mainly made of magic crystals, so one could imagine how great the demand for magic crystals was among the major forces.

That was why they sent their ace legion to compete with the Azure Chamber of Commerce for the Magic Silver Mine.

Three million magic crystals!

This was an astronomical figure for any super-force in the Western Continent.

If they could have three million magic crystals at once, their Divine Will Tribe would surpass other super-forces in the level 100 map's pioneering, not to mention solving the research funding problem for the battle magic runes, allowing their Divine Will Tribe's battle magic runes to be upgraded to the third tier. Then their Divine Will Tribe could truly be on par with those super-guilds, or even stronger.

"Of course, but it still depends on your sincerity, Grand Elder." Shi Feng looked at Adolf's fiery eyes and couldn't help but marvel at the effect of magic crystals.

Although he had known for a long time that magic crystals were of great significance to the Western Continent, seeing even a master as close to a peerless monster as Adolf so excited, the shortage of magic crystals in the Western Continent was exceptionally high.

"Okay, I can represent the Divine Will Tribe to agree to you, but our Divine Will Tribe can only send 80,000 elite troops and 20,000 elite experts to help you. After that, whether you can defend it with these people will depend on yourselves." Adolf said through gritted teeth.

"100,000 troops is enough, but I also need to borrow your ace legion when I occupy the town." Shi Feng nodded.

Eighty thousand elite troops and twenty thousand elite expert troops was about the limit that a first-rate guild in the Western Continent could provide. After all, there were too many NPC towns in the Western Continent that needed people to maintain.

"That's no problem. I'll have Macca Frey lead the team over later, but I need to say in advance that if the casualties of our ace legion exceed 30%, our ace legion will withdraw."

Grand Elder Adolf was not surprised by Shi Feng's request. After all, the fastest way to establish your own town in the Western Continent was to occupy a town of another NPC force.

Afterwards, Shi Feng signed a transaction contract with Adolf. The Divine Will Tribe would gather all kinds of rare materials needed by Shi Feng within seven days and send 100,000 troops to guard the town established by Zero Wing for three months, while Shi Feng would pay three million magic crystals.

At the same time, the Divine Will Tribe was also Zero Wing's only partner in the Western Continent. Whenever Zero Wing wanted to purchase rare materials in the Western Continent, the Divine Will Tribe had priority at the same price.

After signing a series of contracts, Macca Frey also returned to Silver Lion City with the Divine Will Tribe's ace army, and Shi Feng would be in complete command before occupying a town.

"Guild Leader Black Flame, I wonder what your plans are? With the combat power currently sent out by our Divine Will Tribe, not many resource towns in the level 90 map can be occupied. Considering the subsequent defense problem, I suggest a resource town in the level 80 map." Macca Frey slowly said, taking out a map.

The攻略 difficulty of resource towns in the level 90 maps was very high, because the NPCs or monsters guarding them were all above level 100, and there were several level 100 legendary-level combatants. The difficulty was conceivable with the level of mainstream players being only level 100, while it was much easier to occupy those level 80 maps.

Although the starting point was a bit low, guild towns could be transferred, and Zero Wing mainly wanted to gain a foothold in the Western Continent, so occupying a resource town in the level 80 map was definitely a good choice.

"No, I'm not interested in these towns. My goal is the Starlight Fortress in Star Valley!"

Shi Feng shook his head and pointed to a small fortress located in the Star Valley, a life-forbidden zone in the southern part of the Western Continent, several kingdoms away from the Silvermoon Empire. This was also his main purpose for coming to the Western Continent this time.