Chapter 1 Epic-Level Trade Route

System: Congratulations to player for completing the "Beast King's Ambition" epic-level trade route quest, rewarding Star-Moon Kingdom Reputation +100, current experience gained increased by 50%, and acquisition of the Star-Moon Kingdom Port Construction Order.

Orc Empire Region System Announcement: Congratulations to Zero Wing Guild's Silverwing Town for becoming the first town in the Orc Empire to open a trade route. Rewarding Silverwing Town with 10,000 points of Fame and acquiring the Transportation Trading Firm Design.

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The system announcement rang three times in the ears of all players within the Orc Empire.

"Open a trade route? What's that?"

"It should allow for the introduction of more NPC merchants."

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean Silverwing Town will be able to buy more rare items from NPCs in the future?"

"Zero Wing Guild is indeed amazing. Silverwing Town only recently advanced to an intermediate town, and now it's opened a trade route. The Orc Empire will definitely be Zero Wing Guild's territory in the future."

"That goes without saying. The demonic army couldn't do anything about Zero Wing Guild back then. Now that Silverwing Town is developing better and better, it's estimated that it won't be long before the Demon-occupied Ancient Rock City is surpassed by Zero Wing Guild."

"If it can be surpassed, we'll be in luck. At least when walking in the outer areas of the Orc Empire, we won't have to worry about being ambushed by those dark player teams."

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Players leveling up in the Orc Empire were discussing it on the official website forum, very optimistic about the development of Zero Wing Guild and also looking forward to Silverwing Town's growth.

Currently, for some reason, Ancient Rock City in the Orc Empire has become a gathering place for dark forces, with a large number of dark players converging there, making it their stronghold.

Because Ancient Rock City is located near the internal region of the Orc Empire, its main area of activity is at the border between the internal and external regions.

Because of this, the free players who come to level up and do quests are suffering.

They often PK with these dark players.

Silverwing Town, which is the closest town to Ancient Rock City, is also considered a gathering place for these players, but because the town has a very limited capacity, the number of players gathered there is small, and it cannot compete with the dark players of Ancient Rock City.

But if Silverwing Town develops and the number of gathered players increases, it can suppress the dark players of Ancient Rock City to a certain extent, so that the dark players will restrain themselves in their actions, at least not ambush them in the outer areas.

The news of Silverwing Town opening a trade route made the vast majority of free players in the Orc Empire very happy, but the major powers that received this news had slightly gloomy expressions.

The number of players from the surrounding kingdoms and empires willing to come to the Orc Empire is basically saturated. In other words, there are only so many players leveling up in the Orc Empire. The towns that the major powers have occupied all want to seize more players so that the towns can develop.

If a large number of players run to Silverwing Town, how will the towns they occupy develop?

"Hunter Wind, it seems that things will be difficult for your Ancient Rock City in the future." Huo Yun, holding a scarlet crystal staff, couldn't help but ridicule the 55th-level Tier 2 Berserker, Lie Feng Zhu Hun, who was carrying a large axe beside him, after hearing the system prompt.

"Our alliance with dark players is just to use the hands of dark players to wear down Zero Wing. There is no loss to our Evil God Temple at all." Lie Feng Zhu Hun didn't care. "And no matter how Zero Wing Guild develops Silverwing Town, it will be too late. Don't you think so?"

"Indeed, Zero Wing's Hei Yan is indeed a very scary person, but unfortunately, a guild is not something that can be strengthened simply by relying on one person. The guild war ultimately depends on the financial resources and background of both sides." Huo Yun looked at the Crimson Flame Fortress, which had already had its magic array broken not far away, and couldn't help but slightly raise the corners of his mouth. "Now, let Zero Wing Guild continue to be arrogant for a while. As long as we take the Crimson Flame Fortress, everything about Zero Wing will end."

Crimson Flame Fortress is one of the most important fortresses in the inner region of the Orc Empire. It is also a transportation hub for relatively safe roads. As long as it can occupy the Crimson Flame Fortress, it will control most of the players who want to go to the Orc King City regional dungeon. The money and resources obtained at that time cannot be compared to even the original Ancient Rock City.

At the same time, as long as they control the Crimson Flame Fortress, it is equivalent to blocking Zero Wing Guild's path to the Orc King City, making all of Zero Wing's efforts in the Orc Empire come to nothing.

Over time, they will become stronger and stronger in the Orc Empire, and Zero Wing will become more and more vulnerable. When they accumulate to a certain extent, they can take down Silverwing Town in one fell swoop, destroy Zero Wing Guild, and make Zero Wing Guild become history.

On the other side, because Shi Feng constructed a dispelling magic array, the orc army that was originally attacking Shi Feng felt a sense of oppression from this magic array. Even the orc generals reacted much slower, allowing Shi Feng to barely protect himself with the power of the Heavenly Dragon and dodge.

Just as Shi Feng was thinking about how to retreat.

Suddenly, shouts of killing came from outside the fortress.

A kingdom army rushed out from a place more than a thousand yards away from the fortress. Although the number of this kingdom army was not large, only a thousand, the levels of these kingdom soldiers were very high, all at least level 100.

In God's Domain, level 50 is a major watershed, and level 100 is also a very large watershed. It can be said that a level 100 Tier 2 NPC can easily deal with a level 95 Great Lord, and the weakest of the kingdom army NPCs that rushed over are Tier 2 NPCs. The leader is a level 120 Tier 3 Knight Commander, Claude.

Although Claude is only Tier 3, there is a big difference between Tier 3 NPCs. Claude is wearing a set of epic-level equipment, and the Silver Spear in his hand is even a fragment of a legendary item, possessing genuine Tier 3 peak combat power, and can even compete with those Tier 4 legendary monsters.

With the appearance of this kingdom army, it quickly broke through the orc army. Claude, riding a unicorn, rushed towards the orc warlords who were surrounding the gate, and simply waved his spear.

Silver light flashed, and space shattered.

Two level 80 High Great Lord-ranked orc warlords were swept away on the spot, and the Lord-ranked orcs with more than a third of their health remaining were killed on the spot.

In an instant, it broke through the orc army besieging the gate and rushed into the fortress.

"Rescue?" Shi Feng looked at Claude rushing in, feeling both happy and surprised. He didn't expect there to be such a scene after the quest ended.

The level 80 orc general had no power to fight back against the level 120 Claude. He was repelled on the spot. As the battle time grew longer, the orc general's health also decreased.

Seeing that the orc general's health had fallen below half, the orc general roared unwillingly. Then the orc army that was fighting began to retreat, and the orc general retreated all the way to the fortress wall, jumped off the wall, and left.

After the orc army left, Claude also came in front of Shi Feng.

"Respected Guardian, thanks to your efforts, we were able to open up this important trade route. From now on, our Star-Moon Kingdom army will take over here to ensure the safety of the trade route. As the pioneer of the trade route, are you willing to pay 60,000 gold coins to repair Secret Stone Fortress and become the senior manager of this Secret Stone Fortress?"