Chapter 1 The Candlelight Trading Firm's Price

After the Candlelight Trading Firm announced the rental prices, the merchant players in the hall were stunned for a long while, followed by a burst of exclamations. Even the players who came to join in the fun were gaping in surprise.

"Damn! It costs three thousand gold to rent a shop for a month? I remember the shop prices in the NPC cities are about the same, but those are permanent. Now it costs three thousand gold just to rent a shop in Silverwing Town? That's too expensive!"

"Silverwing Town is just a small town, after all, not comparable to an NPC city. Who can afford such expensive rent?"

"If I had three thousand gold, I would buy a set of top-grade equipment. At least with a set of top-grade equipment, I could join a gold farming team. Maybe I could earn it back in a month if I'm lucky, which is much more than renting a shop."

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For a time, everyone was discussing the sky-high rent offered by Silverwing Town.

"Guild Leader, with the price you've set, I'm afraid very few merchant players will be able to afford it. Many influential trading firms have suggested to me that if the price could be reduced by 30%, they would be willing to rent it for a long time. Should we lower it a bit?" Aqua Rose, sitting in the second-floor hall, couldn't help but suggest to Shi Feng.

To be honest, she felt this price was too high. If it were Zero Wing City, it would be understandable. After all, the number of active players in Zero Wing City has reached over five million, which is much better than ordinary NPC big cities. Even with such high rent, people could still accept it. After all, shops permanently purchased from NPC cities also require paying 15% property tax every month.

Of course, this property tax is based on the actual price of the shop each month, not the initial purchase price, which is equivalent to rent.

But Silverwing Town is different. Although it has become an Intermediate Town and the player capacity has increased a lot, the limited area severely restricts the number of players in Silverwing Town, so it can't compare to NPC big cities, let alone Zero Wing City.

"You can reply to them that the price I set is not high for the current Silverwing Town. If they want to buy, they can, but if they don't, we won't force them. In another half a month, the price might even increase," Shi Feng said, not concerned about it.

Silverwing Town has the Trade Firm as a natural gold mine, which can easily acquire rare items exchanged from the Trade Firm from players, and then sell these rare items to other kingdoms and empires, earning a lot of price differences. The trading firm itself can also be used as a warehouse.

If it weren't for the Sea of Trees needing a lot of gold coins, he wouldn't be renting them out now.

"Guild Leader, I also received a message about Beast King City. I heard that the Blackwater Guild has opened the seal of the Beast King City's armory. Now, all the major guilds have sent expert teams to try to explore the Beast King City's armory. Although we also want to do this, the Blackwater Guild's blockade against us is very tight. As long as our people dare to approach Beast King City, they will be besieged by them and cannot approach Beast King City at all," Aqua Rose said with some worry. "But there must be many war weapons in the Beast King City's armory. If they get there first, it will be very detrimental to our Zero Wing Guild's development in the Orc Empire."

"Opened the Beast King City's armory?" Shi Feng frowned slightly. "The Blackwater Guild is really powerful."

For the Shura-level regional dungeon of Beast King City, the resources inside are naturally very abundant. As for the armory area inside, needless to say, it must have many war weapons. For the major guilds lacking war weapons, it can greatly enhance their guild's combat power.

But the Blackwater Guild controls Crimson Fortress, which can be said to have blocked the road to Beast King City. Moreover, even if they enter Beast King City, it is very easy for the Blackwater Guild to deal with them, after all, they have home-field advantage.

If the Blackwater Guild really gets a lot of war weapons, it will be extremely unfavorable to the Zero Wing Guild.

The reason why the Zero Wing Guild can gain a foothold in the Orc Empire is largely because their war weapons are ahead of other guilds. If this gap is closed, it will be much easier for Blackwater to attack Silverwing Town. At that time, even the major super forces watching from the sidelines will definitely take the opportunity to rob them.

"According to our intelligence, the major super forces are also preparing to fully explore the armory. If we fall behind..." Aqua Rose had no way to deal with this.

Sending experts to hide their identities to explore, I am afraid that these people have not yet entered the armory and will be driven out by the major forces. But forcibly breaking through the Blackwater Guild's blockade will definitely cause great losses, after all, Crimson Fortress can provide support at any time, but they can't do it. But if they leave it alone, they will only be surpassed by the major forces little by little.

"We will give up exploring Beast King City," Shi Feng said after thinking about it.

"Give up? But..." Aqua Rose was shocked.

If they give up, the major forces will explore the armory and obtain a large number of war weapons, and the unlucky ones will be their Zero Wing Guild.

"I haven't finished yet. Although we have given up exploring Beast King City, we can explore other places. In God's Domain, there is more than just Beast King City as a regional dungeon," Shi Feng said with a smile. "How many Tier 2 classes do we have in the guild right now?"

"Fortunately, we have the Ancient Souls, which makes it easier to advance to Tier 2 classes than other guilds. Currently, the entire guild has more than four hundred Tier 2 classes, and many people are still in the Tier 2 class advancement quest. I believe that in a few days, this number will break through one thousand," Aqua Rose said excitedly.

Now in the entire God's Domain, in terms of the number of Tier 2 classes, their Zero Wing Guild is no longer below the major super forces, and as time goes by, there may be more.

It must be said that exclusively occupying a large number of resources in Ancient Rock City has a huge advantage. You must know that the experts in their Zero Wing Guild are much less than the major super forces, but after getting the Ancient Souls, the difficulty of Tier 2 class advancement has been reduced a lot, coupled with the equipment advantage, there is such a considerable number.

"Are there already so many?" Shi Feng was also slightly surprised. This number has exceeded his expectations. Currently, the major first-rate guilds can have thirty or forty people, which is very good. "That's great. Then you can take the Icarus's Heart and organize three hundred people to go to the neutral map Saloc Mountain Range to farm Rock Giants. The more the better, and you can also level up. But exploring the map should be more careful. Although it is not a Shura-level regional dungeon, it is also a rare Hell-level regional dungeon."

Saloc Mountain Range is a level 60 to level 90 neutral map located not far from the Storm Empire. The most famous thing about it is that it can produce Titan Fine Iron Ore.

Titan Fine Iron Ore is much more precious than Titan Ore. Even in hundred-man team dungeons that can drop it, it is rarely dropped. However, it can be dropped in the Hell-level regional dungeon in Saloc Mountain Range. Although the probability is not high, even killing the Grand Lord Rock Giant, the drop rate does not exceed 3%, but fortunately, there are many Grand Lord-level Rock Giants in the regional dungeon.

However, there is a prerequisite for farming monsters there, that is, players must reach Tier 2 classes.

Originally, the Zero Wing Guild only had dozens of Tier 2 classes before, and there were not so many people, so they gave up. But now there are so many Tier 2 classes, so you can go to farm Titan Fine Iron Ore. In this way, the main materials for making Guardian Puppets will be available, and all that remains is to wait for the sub-occupation masters cultivated by Melancholic Smile.

Aqua Rose was stunned when she heard Shi Feng say this. She didn't understand why they were going so far to farm monsters, but Shi Feng had already said so, and she had no good way to solve the current situation, so she could only take the Icarus's Heart and organize the Tier 2 classes in the guild to go to Saloc Mountain Range.

As a day passed, the twenty shops that Shi Feng rented out were also rented out, with fifteen small shops and five large shops all rented out. Shi Feng immediately got 70,000 gold coins, which made many merchant players and free players dumbfounded. They didn't understand if these people were crazy, spending so many gold coins to rent shops.

Until the agreed opening date of the Sea of Trees, Shi Feng raised a total of 120,000 gold coins through the Zero Wing Guild's profits and the material resales of the Crystal Ice World, which made Shi Feng's wallet a lot richer.

Then Shi Feng took all the money and nine Tier 1 expert players, and directly teleported from Star-Moon City to Night Empire's Night City.