Chapter 1 The Opening

The opening of Shilin City caused a sensation throughout the Cold Spring Grand Forest. Many expert players and teams active in the Cold Spring Grand Forest couldn't help but rush over as soon as possible, causing a long queue at the entrance of Shilin City, with at least tens of thousands of people at a glance, and that number was still increasing.

Among these people who rushed over, many wanted to enter this rumored leveling holy land of the Cold Spring Grand Forest to take a good look, and some wanted to confirm whether the opening of Shilin City was real.

Although the regional system announcement wouldn't lie, no one could say for sure that Zero Wing wouldn't suddenly change its mind and directly block Shilin City again. After all, the interests involved in Shilin City were too great.

Every time private housing was offered for rent in Shilin City, major forces and wealthy players would compete for it, offering sky-high prices, leaving other players to sigh in despair.

The opening of Shilin City also meant that the only way to enter Shilin City was no longer limited to renting private residences. You only needed to pay an entrance fee to enter the city to rest, which would greatly reduce the value of private residences.

In addition to rental income, those forces cooperating with Zero Wing had also paid a certain price to enter Shilin City.

Now that Shilin City was completely open to the outside world, the resources or gold coins these forces would be willing to pay would be gone.

The most important point was the advantage of leveling speed and resource acquisition brought by Shilin City. If it were completely open, these advantages of Zero Wing Guild would be greatly weakened, so it wasn't impossible for Zero Wing to block Shilin City again later.

"This Zero Wing really values money more than their lives. They still want ten silver coins per person for the entrance fee in this situation. It's simply robbery!" A female dark warlock with a Tier 3 rank, radiating a dark aura, looked at the Tier 2 NPC knight who was charging her, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, wishing she could kill these Tier 2 NPC knights right now.

The entrance fee for normal guild cities was only dozens of copper coins. Even for the headquarters cities of super forces, located not far from neutral maps of Level 100, the fee was only two silver coins.

Now, the fee for Shilin City was actually five times that of those guild cities!

You have to know that the remaining money in the hands of those Tier 2 expert players was only forty to fifty silver coins a day. This thirty to forty silver was the money left over by Level 100 ranged experts. If it were replaced by Level 100 melee experts, being able to save thirty silver would be good enough, unless they were very lucky and obtained precious materials and valuable items, otherwise they simply couldn't make much pure profit in a day.

Now, don't think that everyone's level was high, the monsters they killed were strong, and the rewards given for quests were more, and there were more channels to earn money, but the expenses were also greater.

Especially when dealing with monsters above Level 100, even if you cherish the weapons and equipment on your body, the durability of the weapons and equipment will drop very frighteningly. Repairing them would be a heart-wrenching experience, not to mention the cost of potions and other props, the replacement of weapons and equipment, and so on. In the end, very little money would be left.

As for going to low-level places to grind monsters or materials, maybe you could earn more, but doing so was simply putting the cart before the horse.

Even the expert players of big forces, if they were out of the front line for a long time, they would soon be thrown out of the front-line echelon, and wanting to catch up would be extremely difficult, even missing some opportunities for rise.

So, even if the front-line players were down on their luck, they wouldn't leave this front-line echelon just to earn a little more.

And they were just entering the city, not staying in the hotel in Shilin City, and they had to spend a full ten silver coins, which was almost like robbery, even robbery wasn't this fast.

Ten silver coins per person, ten thousand people entering once a day was one thousand gold, one hundred thousand was ten thousand gold, and one million people was one hundred thousand gold.

One hundred thousand gold!

Even first-rate guilds couldn't take out so much money now, not to mention that this was only one million people. With the advantage of Shilin City in the Level 100 neutral map, two to three million people was simply too easy, which meant that the entrance fee alone would bring in two to three hundred thousand gold a day…

Moreover, as more and more players entered the Cold Spring Grand Forest for development in the future, this number would increase.

"Hua Yu! Now is not the time for us to take action. Paying the money and entering the city quickly is the first priority." Tie Gu Can Xin (Iron Bone Remnant Heart), standing behind the female warlock, reminded, "After the armies of the major super forces arrive, you can cause as much trouble as you want."

He was speechless about this female warlock.

She was clearly a Tier 3 class, and ten silver coins were not worth mentioning for her, an expert. The income from assisting any team was dozens of gold, and some could even reach hundreds of gold. Now, she was angry about the ten silver coin entrance fee.

If it weren't for making the operation more guaranteed this time, he really wouldn't want to invite this lone wolf.

But he had to admit that this Shilin City was really violent.

Just sitting in Shilin City, without needing to do anything every day, the income could support countless first-rate guilds.

"Don't worry, I know what's important, but the price we agreed on before has to be increased by 50%." The female warlock named Hua Yu Xiao Xiao (Flower Rain Fluttering) nodded, but she didn't care at all about Tie Gu Can Xin, the first dark guild leader of the Black Dragon Empire, and instead began to drive up the price.

Faced with this situation, the eyes of the Tier 3 experts of the Shadow Death God became cold.

"Okay, as long as you can maintain the magic domain according to our requirements, the price is not a problem." Tie Gu Can Xin surprisingly didn't show any anger at Hua Yu Xiao Xiao's asking price, and directly agreed.

Moreover, the other force experts present didn't feel any surprise about this.

Because this female warlock was the only warlock in the entire Black Dragon Empire who had mastered the Tier 3 domain magic. She herself had reached the top expert realm of Vacuum, and once the Tier 3 magic domain was released, even the first-rate guilds of the Black Dragon Empire couldn't do anything to Hua Yu Xiao Xiao.

This was also why Tie Gu Can Xin invited Hua Yu Xiao Xiao over.

Although they were Tier 3 class experts, they still felt a lot of pressure when facing those Tier 2 NPCs above Level 115 in places like Shilin City. Therefore, they very much needed someone like Hua Yu Xiao Xiao who knew Tier 3 domain magic. In this way, under the Tier 3 domain magic, those Tier 2 class NPCs would no longer be a problem. Even if Zero Wing's large number of Tier 3 experts participated in the battle, they could still complete the task and take down the City Lord's Mansion.

When Hua Yu Xiao Xiao saw Tie Gu Can Xin agree, she didn't say any more nonsense, directly paid ten silver coins, and walked into Shilin City.

"Boss, that's a 50% increase! If you agree to him, our future income will be much less." The Tier 3 Berserker next to him couldn't help but say to Tie Gu Can Xin after seeing Hua Yu Xiao Xiao leave.

"It doesn't matter, as long as Jiu Long Huang (Nine Dragon Emperor) negotiates with Xing Huan (Star Ring) well, we can still increase the price with Jiu Long Huang as long as we can be the first to capture the City Lord's Mansion and control the entire Shilin City. We are not afraid that Jiu Long Huang and Xing Huan will not agree." Tie Gu Can Xin looked at the long queue of Shilin City in front of him, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

Although he had long known that Shilin City was a big gold mine, and the daily income was simply unimaginable for their forces, even if they only got a small share, they could earn a lot.

Now that he really saw Shilin City, he realized how naive his previous thoughts were.

This wasn't a gold mine, it was simply a diamond mine.

An entrance fee of more than 300,000 gold a day was many times more profitable than them licking blood from a knife to painstakingly plunder players.

The nearly 100 Tier 3 experts present were also watching eagerly, and at the same time, they were extremely resentful.

It was usually as difficult as climbing to the sky for them to earn a little more, but Zero Wing, a guild without any backing, starting from scratch in less than a year, could actually lie down and earn money and resources that they didn't dare to imagine.

"Okay, let's go in too." Tie Gu Can Xin looked at the players who had already started urging from behind, and directly ordered.

Afterwards, Tie Gu Can Xin and others paid the entrance fee one by one and walked into the city gate.

After Tie Gu Can Xin and others walked into the city gate, they saw Hua Yu Xiao Xiao, who had taken a step ahead, standing motionless at the entrance of the city gate, as if petrified.

"Hua Yu, what's wrong?" Tie Gu Can Xin looked at Hua Yu Xiao Xiao blocking the entrance and asked strangely.

Before Tie Gu Can Xin could finish asking, Tie Gu Can Xin, who walked to Hua Yu Xiao Xiao's side, was also stunned on the spot, looking at the two rows of NPC knights in front of him with a look of horror.

"Tier 3 class! This… How is this possible?"

Tie Gu Can Xin's heart trembled as he looked at these NPC knights.