Chapter 1 Opening Up Trade Routes

"Open up trade routes?" High-level steward Erke looked at the black iron token in Shi Feng's hand in surprise, and couldn't help reminding, "Guardian, although you have a caravan guard token and are qualified to open a trade route for a town, I must remind you that opening a trade route is no small matter, and the cost is also extraordinary. Moreover, you are here to Xingyue Wangcheng to open a trade route, which is not only extremely expensive, but also extremely risky. If you give up halfway, this caravan guard token will be useless."

"I understand, but I am confident that I can open a trade route to Silverwing Town," Shi Feng nodded.

He knew everything about opening up trade routes, and he had done it many times in his previous life.

In God's Domain, if any guild town wants to quickly introduce NPC merchants and develop rapidly, it needs to open up trade routes. Moreover, opening up trade routes has a huge benefit, which is the priority to purchase rare items transported by NPC merchants and usage fees.

It seems like nothing, but it is the main source of wealth for a neutral town before it is promoted to a city, and there is no other.

The higher the town's popularity, the more NPC merchants will come to the town. Even if they are not NPC merchants, even ordinary NPCs need to pay a usage fee after using this trade route, because this trade route is a safe road, and there are even high-level NPC escorts. Even if players reach level 100, they dare not rob it.

Although the usage fee is not high, only 80 copper coins are charged per NPC, and the number of NPCs is far less than the number of players, but if there are 100,000 NPCs traveling to and from this trade route a day, you can earn 800 gold coins a day. And this is just one trade route, the income from a city traveling to and from the town. The more trade routes you introduce, the more the town earns.

However, trade routes only exist when towns in neutral maps are promoted to intermediate towns. They do not exist within kingdoms and empires.

In addition to making money, opening up trade routes is also one of the ways to obtain rare materials.

Not all the goods transported by NPC merchants are sold to players. A considerable part is sold to NPCs. Ordinary players cannot buy these things at all. With priority purchasing rights, they can not only purchase items sold to players first, but also items sold to NPCs.

Among the items sold to NPCs, there are many materials that are difficult to buy on the market, and even magic crystals can be purchased, but the price is higher than the market price between players, one for 40 silver coins, but this is very valuable for the guild. After all, magic crystals are easy to exchange for gold coins, but gold coins are difficult to exchange for magic crystals, especially to exchange for a large number of magic crystals.

NPCs are different from players. It is much easier to obtain magic crystals than players, because most of the mines that produce magic crystals in kingdoms and empires are occupied by NPCs. Therefore, NPC merchants who sell magic crystals sometimes sell 5,000 to 10,000 magic crystals, which is very normal, but it is extremely difficult to purchase 5,000 to 10,000 magic crystals from players.

In addition, these NPC merchants will occasionally sell some rare high-level design drawings. The price is much higher than buying and selling between players, but they are rare. Players cannot easily obtain them. Sometimes, they even sell clues to legendary item fragments and legendary item fragments.

Although this situation is rare in the entire God's Domain, according to statistics, the more NPC merchants traveling to and from the town, the higher the possibility of obtaining legendary item fragments and clues to legendary item fragments.

Legendary item fragments, even just clues, are very valuable.

Since there is a possibility of obtaining them, Shi Feng certainly cannot let it go. After all, he does not know many ways to obtain legendary item fragments, because most players will not casually say how they got the legendary item fragments, or even want to reveal that they have legendary item fragments. What he knows are well-known legendary item fragments, and the ways to obtain them are very demanding. Most of them cannot be obtained now.

"Since the guardian understands, that's great. If the guardian wants to open a trade route to Silverwing Town, according to this route, the basic cost is 10,000 gold coins, and the number of magic crystals is 5,000. Because the guardian has an ordinary caravan guard order, you are only allowed to recruit and form one hundred-man team. The team also needs to carry at least one advanced mage to engrave special magic arrays on the road to ensure that monsters can be driven away on the road," said high-level steward Erke. "I wonder if the guardian needs me to introduce mercenaries to you to go together?"

"Of course," Shi Feng nodded.

The caravan guard token itself is like a special task to open up trade routes. This task can be completed entirely by players, or mercenaries from the Adventurer's Association can be hired to complete it.

Compared with players, mercenaries are definitely more powerful at this stage, so players who get the token are willing to hire mercenaries to do the task together, but the price is very high. Some guilds let players do it to save money and because they think their strength is good.

Although the main force of Zero Wing is very strong, the level of opening up trade routes to the Orc Empire is not low. The monsters that appear along the way are generally 15 levels higher than the map level. The monster levels in many places in the Orc Empire are above level 60. The level of interference monsters is at least level 75. For the current main force of the Zero Wing Guild, the level is too high and it is not suitable for this task.

"Okay, this is the list of mercenaries who are willing to follow the guardian," Erke then took out a list and gave it to Shi Feng.

The task of opening up trade routes is very special and dangerous. It is not possible to hire any mercenaries you want. It also depends on the player's own status in the Adventurer's Association. The higher the status, the more mercenaries are willing to participate in the action.

"So powerful, the treatment equivalent to the vice president really helps a lot in opening up trade routes," Shi Feng smacked his lips slightly looking at the mercenary list.

In his previous life, the strongest he could hire to open up trade routes was only a three-star tier 2 NPC. Opening up trade routes was very difficult, but on the employment list, not to mention three-star tier 2 NPCs, even two-star tier 3 NPCs came to participate. It has to be said that the high-level title brings great help to players.

Shi Feng spent another 15,000 gold coins in one breath, spending almost all the money he had, and hired 97 mercenaries. The lowest level of these mercenaries was level 80, the weakest was a three-star tier 2 NPC at level 80, and the strongest was a two-star tier 3 NPC at level 83. There were as many as fifteen tier 3 NPCs in the entire team, which can be said to be extremely powerful.

As Shi Feng completed all the procedures and learned to engrave special advanced magic arrays, Shi Feng summoned Anna at level 85 and Kate at level 83, driving mithril-level transport vehicles and leading the other 97 NPCs to Silverwing Town in a mighty manner.

The mithril-level transport vehicle driving on the street can be said to be extraordinarily ostentatious, because the mount pulling the transport vehicle is a Thunderhorn Earth Dragon with a height of more than five meters, which itself has the strength of a Grand Lord. Walking on the street is like a giant beast. There are as many as ten transport vehicles going to the room, and the scene is extremely spectacular.

"What's the situation? Is there a big event happening in the city?"

"That's not right! Look at the people driving the transport vehicles. They seem to be players. Could it be that this player triggered some event?"

"The guild badge worn by that player seems to be the six-winged badge of the Zero Wing Guild!"

"The Zero Wing Guild is too awesome! They can actually get such powerful transport vehicles. Damn, there are more than a dozen tier 3 NPCs. This is simply against the sky!"