Chapter 1 The Advancement of Silverwing Town

Silverwing Town.

At Shi Feng's command, the opening of Silverwing Town was completed in less than twenty minutes. Furthermore, through the reserve NPC guards that the Magic King, Katie Delan, had accumulated over time, as well as the temporarily recruited NPCs, the extra thousand slots were quickly filled.

These thousand NPC guards were all recruited by Katie Delan.

During this period, Silverwing Town had been developing better and better. Not only was the number of NPCs applying for positions extremely high, but the quality was also much higher than before, something unimaginable in the past.

Generally speaking, when a beginner town is promoted to an intermediate town, supplementing a thousand NPCs is a very troublesome matter. In the initial stage, it would be good to have two or three hundred Tier 1 NPCs applying, and having more than a dozen Tier 2 NPCs would already be considered fortunate. The vast majority would be elite-level NPCs. After that, the town would rely on long-term accumulation, constantly replacing and upgrading the NPCs to slowly increase the number of Tier 2 NPCs.

But now, thanks to Katie Delan's reputation, there were over three thousand NPCs willing to apply. Adding in the three hundred reserve Tier 1 NPCs, Silverwing Town was able to recruit a thousand NPCs, with the weakest being Tier 1, and over a hundred being Tier 2.

More than a hundred Tier 2 NPCs would take even an intermediate town several days or even more than ten days to accumulate so many, and then slowly increase the number. Unless the town's reputation greatly improved, some Tier 2 NPCs would come because of the fame. After all, Tier 2 NPCs were not cabbages in God's Domain; you couldn't have as many as you wanted.

Even Zero Wing City now had only accumulated just over two thousand Tier 2 NPCs; the rest were still Tier 1.

Although the Magic King, Katie, recruited many high-quality NPC guards, it also cost Zero Wing Guild more than 20,000 gold coins to equip these NPCs.

In God's Domain, NPC guards don't have weapons and equipment by default; they need to be equipped just like players. This is also an important aspect of strengthening a town's defenses.

Of course, some NPCs would come with their own weapons and equipment when recruited, but the quality was generally not high, far inferior to the system-issued standard weapons and equipment. The combat power of NPCs wearing different qualities of equipment would also differ greatly. For example, the difference in combat power between an NPC wearing standard bronze equipment and an NPC wearing standard Mysterious-Iron equipment might not be as obvious as it is for players, but there would still be about a 20% difference.

Don't underestimate that 20%; it's a significant amount for NPCs, who have stronger attributes than players.

When building Stone Forest Town and Zero Wing City, because of a lack of funds, the cheapest bronze-grade weapons and equipment were used. It was only through the guild's development and continuous investment that the equipment of the defending NPC guards gradually improved.

It can be said that the NPCs' weapons and equipment accounted for a considerable proportion of a town's investment funds, and there were also considerable daily expenses for the management and maintenance of the weapons and equipment.

Because of this, the major guilds were not very willing to build too many towns. Even super forces that occupied many towns would not equip every town but would focus on developing some key towns.

This is one of the reasons why the lairs of many first-rate guilds can still hold out for a long time when facing attacks from super-first-rate guilds and super guilds.

It's all because the longer a town is managed, the more powerful the NPC guards inside become. An NPC with a full set of top-grade equipment can fight above their tier against players.

Fortunately, most NPC equipment, except for some extremely powerful top-grade equipment, can be obtained with money and doesn't need to be collected specifically. So, to equip these thousand NPCs, Shi Feng spent over 20,000 gold coins in one go.

A set of level 50 to 100 bronze equipment costs two gold coins, which can be said to be very cheap, much cheaper than what players use.

But a set of level 50 to 100 Mysterious-Iron equipment is a big step up, costing ten gold coins.

A set of level 50 to 100 Mithril equipment costs a hundred gold coins.

A set of level 50 to 100 Fine-Gold equipment costs six hundred gold coins.

A set of level 50 to 100 Dark-Gold equipment costs one thousand five hundred gold coins.

A set of level 50 to 100 Epic equipment costs six thousand gold coins...

Because of this, the investment in a town's development is always a bottomless pit. For the current situation of Silverwing Town, Shi Feng equipped the Tier 2 NPCs with Mithril-grade equipment and the Tier 1 NPCs with Mysterious-Iron-grade equipment.

Although Zero Wing Guild had accumulated a lot of money through Zero Wing City and Stone Forest Town recently, Shi Feng still planned to use most of it on Lost Town. After all, Lost Town was even more important than Silverwing Town.

"Guild Leader, the patrols and distribution of all the NPC guards have been arranged. Are we opening the town now?" Aqua Rose looked at the rows of well-equipped NPC guards and couldn't help but smile.

Because of the continuous investment during this period, the NPC equipment in Silverwing Town was even better than that in Stone Forest Town and Zero Wing City. More than a hundred of the early Tier 2 NPCs wore Fine-Gold equipment, and the rest were all Mithril-grade. This was unimaginable in other guilds, which generally used Mysterious-Iron equipment to get by and spent more money on building the town itself.

"Okay, let's open it now!" Shi Feng nodded.

"By the way, Guild Leader, do we still need to limit the number of people?" Aqua Rose asked.

"Although it has become an intermediate town and the capacity has increased a lot, in order to protect the NPC merchants, let's still limit it to one million five hundred thousand people," Shi Feng thought for a moment.

"So few people?" Aqua Rose was surprised.

The area of an intermediate town is more than twice as large as that of a beginner town. Even if it accommodates two million people, it would be similar to the previous situation of the beginner town.

"It's not a small number; that's one million five hundred thousand people," Shi Feng said, smiling at Aqua Rose, who was a little greedy. "Besides, Silverwing Town can't only be for players; we also need to leave some space for NPCs."

"Leave it for NPCs?" Aqua Rose was even more puzzled.

"Anyway, you can arrange for people to open the town first; you'll naturally know after a while," Shi Feng said, looking at the vast number of players eagerly waiting outside the town, without explaining too much.

In God's Domain, the development of guild towns is not only about players; NPCs are also important. And in neutral maps, NPCs are even more important than players.

Because these NPCs can not only bring fame to the town but also bring great opportunities, allowing some players to become rich overnight or become top experts. It's not impossible.

However, these things were only known to everyone later.

Now, of course, he had to prepare early, especially after obtaining the treasure that was the Caravan Escort Token.

Aqua Rose didn't say much after hearing Shi Feng's order and immediately had the guild members gather at the entrance to open the town step by step.

As the town opened, a mass of players surged into Silverwing Town, and after entering the town, they were all stunned by the various buildings inside.

"Is this really Silverwing Town?"

"Damn! This is too luxurious. I feel like this is no less than a small NPC city."

Everyone looked at the towering buildings and marveled in their hearts.

"Come and see, there's a five-story blacksmith shop here!"

"Awesome! What kind of blacksmith shop is this? There's even an NPC forging master sitting here."

"This is great! This blacksmith shop can even customize and disassemble weapons and equipment. Now, even if I don't go to team dungeons, I can still get top-quality equipment!"

"You're thinking too much. Did you see the cost of customizing weapons and equipment? And you also need specific materials."

"That's still better than not being able to get weapons and equipment, right? Look, you can even customize level 50 Dark-Gold weapons and equipment here, but which guild is willing to sell level 50 Dark-Gold equipment to us free players now?"

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The free players who entered the advanced blacksmith shop were excited after checking out the functions of the advanced blacksmith shop, and even some guild members were envious.

While everyone was talking about the advanced blacksmith shop in Silverwing Town, Shi Feng also went to Star-Moon City in the Star-Moon Kingdom alone and took an advanced carriage to the headquarters of the Adventurers Association in Star-Moon City.

"Respected Guardian, is there anything I can help you with?" A senior NPC executive, Elk, walked up to Shi Feng and asked respectfully.

"I want to entrust you with opening a trade route to Silverwing Town," Shi Feng said as he took out a Black-Iron token from his backpack. This token was the Caravan Escort Token.