Chapter 1 A Stunned Silence

The bustling conference room fell silent at Shi Feng's words.

Everyone stared at Shi Feng with their mouths agape, his expression so calm.

As if it were a trivial matter, something he could accomplish with a flick of the wrist...

The Orc Empire controlled a vast territory, perhaps not comparable to a true empire, but still the size of over a dozen normal neutral maps. So far, Zero Wing had only been active in the Ancient Shrine area on the eastern outskirts of the Orc Empire. The area of the entire Southeast Region was more than ten times their current range of activity.

Under normal circumstances, without any enemies, it wouldn't matter. But now that the Blackwater Guild had launched a full-scale war against them, it meant vying for territory, for those rare high-resource areas, plundering resources to ensure the guild members in those areas could improve normally, and to increase the guild's advantage in that area. It wasn't just about leveling up in that area.

Their current range of activity was already straining their manpower.

If the guild didn't have enough manpower, Blackwater and Beast Emperor could easily take advantage of them, inflicting unimaginable heavy blows.

The current Blackwater Guild in the Orc Empire was not only numerous but also attracted a large number of experts who wanted to target Zero Wing Guild through bounty killings. Now that the Dark Player problem had been partially resolved, they could free up their hands to expand the range of their defense activities to ensure the acquisition of various resources and the improvement of guild members.

Expanding more than tenfold at once would certainly allow guild members to obtain more upgrade resources on average, allowing everyone's level and wealth to increase rapidly, but they simply didn't have the strength and manpower to defend such a large area.

Without enough manpower for patrols and surveillance, Blackwater and Beast Emperor could easily secretly organize large armies to form encirclements around their teams and annihilate them.

In God's Domain, the movements of guild teams leveling up and doing large-scale tasks were generally very large, especially when exclusively occupying high-resource areas to level up, it was easy to be discovered. So someone needed to monitor the surroundings in advance to prevent enemy ambushes and encirclements.

And even if they could solve the manpower problem and transfer more guild members from Star-Moon Kingdom.

However, surveillance and patrol tasks also required players to have sufficient strength. Otherwise, they would be easily discovered and killed by the enemy's team. Once or twice would be fine, but if it happened ten or twenty times, the person would be ruined.

Not to mention organizing effective defense and delaying time. After all, it was easier for a small number of players to escape than a large group of players. Therefore, the players on surveillance and patrol duty had to provide the main force with time to retreat, and they couldn't do it without a certain level of strength.

"Guild Leader, although expanding our territory allows us to occupy more high-resource areas and speed up the guild's strength improvement, with our current strength, we can't defend such a large area. Instead, it will give Blackwater Guild an opportunity to eliminate our elite players," Aqua Rose suggested. "My suggestion is to occupy two or three more high-resource areas first. This way, we can have enough manpower and strength to defend. After consolidating our strength, we can occupy more high-resource areas."

When everyone heard Aqua Rose's words, they agreed.

Expanding more than tenfold at once could greatly accelerate the guild members' leveling speed and wealth accumulation speed, but they also had to be able to defend it. If they were annihilated by Blackwater Guild and Beast Emperor sending out large armies all the time, it would be a net loss.

"Gradual progress is certainly good, but we don't have that time right now," Shi Feng shook his head. "If we were to follow the current number of guild members in Silverwing Town, this method would indeed be very good, but later I plan to transfer at least 150,000 people from Star-Moon Kingdom. With the existing high-resource areas, it won't be enough to distribute."

"150,000 people?" Aqua Rose said in astonishment, "Why do you suddenly want to transfer so many people here?"

Silverwing Town had only about 110,000 to 120,000 active members, and that was because Silverwing Town had recently been promoted to an Intermediate Town, greatly increasing its player capacity.

Now, directly increasing it by more than double, Silverwing Town's existing resources simply couldn't allow so many guild members to improve quickly, not to mention that Silverwing Town's upgrade resources would be further reduced due to the emergence of the air station.

The others in the conference room also gasped.

They didn't understand what Shi Feng was thinking at all. It was simply too crazy.

Increasing the number of people could certainly greatly increase Silverwing Town's strength, but God's Domain was ultimately a virtual game. All virtual games had a fatal flaw, which was that the total number of upgrade resources in a place was limited. The more players there were, the less each player could get on average.

Perhaps doing so could make Silverwing Town very strong in the Orc Empire in the short term, but as time passed, the players' levels and combat power would gradually be widened. This was why the major super guilds, despite having incomparably powerful strength and numerical advantages, never concentrated on one point.

Even if they really wanted to deal with a certain force, they would only send a small number of elites and experts over. This would not only not affect the improvement of the guild members in that area but also greatly enhance the strength of the area.

This was also why the Blackwater Guild had suddenly become strong in the Orc Empire. Because of the existence of Scarlet Flame Fortress, the Blackwater Guild could send a large number of players over. Coupled with the cooperation with Beast Emperor, without the threat of evil beasts and demons, they could freely occupy various resources in the Orc Empire, which had greatly increased Scarlet Flame Fortress's income. Other super guilds or first-rate guilds couldn't do that.

"I think you should all know about the Mystone Fortress that has newly appeared in the Orc Empire," Shi Feng said slowly.

"Yes, it is currently the only NPC fortress of the human race in the Orc Empire. It has complete functions and is very close to the internal area of the Orc Empire. It can be said to be a resting point between the outer and inner areas of the Orc Empire. Moreover, it is close to the resource center, Oricalcum Fortress, in the Orc Empire's inner area. As long as you teleport, you can immediately reach a place not far from Oricalcum Fortress."

"Because of this, many guilds are now eyeing this Mystone Fortress, trying to improve its status so that the guild can be stationed inside and lay the foundation for capturing Oricalcum Fortress."

In response to Shi Feng's sudden question, Aqua Rose explained in detail all the information about Mystone Fortress.

It could be said that Mystone Fortress had become a must-have for the major guilds. Especially after seeing Blackwater Guild take down Scarlet Flame Fortress and make a lot of money, the major super forces, who were very eager for fortresses, now wanted to have their own fortress.

"That's right. Originally, I wanted to keep this matter a secret, but now it's no longer necessary," Shi Feng nodded and glanced at everyone present. "I have already obtained the guild's right to station in Mystone Fortress through a quest. I think you should understand the significance of this."