Chapter 1 Ancient Rock City

Orc Empire, Ancient Rock City.

As Shi Feng slowly appeared at the city gate of Ancient Rock City, the entire city had been completely renewed. The tall city walls were now etched with faintly visible magic patterns. Even without activating the core magic array within the city, these patterns automatically absorbed magic power from the outside world, forming a magical barrier.

The barrier was so strong that even a full-force attack from a Tier 5 class might not be able to break it directly. As long as there was magic power within the city, the barrier would persist and automatically repair itself, requiring no additional power consumption.

Inside the city, high-rise buildings stood in rows, veiled by a faint mist, like a city in paradise. The concentration of magic power was almost comparable to Zero Wing City.

Shi Feng couldn't help but take to the air, gazing at the entire Ancient Rock City, his heart filled with elation. "It automatically advanced to a main city?"

The current Ancient Rock City was even larger than Zero Wing City. The original residence of Holy Heart Hands had been transformed into a massive city lord's mansion. The mansion alone was over three hundred meters tall, with faint divine runes lighting up around it. These runes were automatically formed by the operation of magical elements.

If players were perceptive enough to clearly sense the magical elements, they might even learn the essence of the rules governing their operation from these evolving divine runes, potentially allowing them to master those rules.

"No wonder cities centered around secret realms make it easier for players to advance. Just the manifested divine runes are enough for Tier 4 players to gain a lot. Add in the environment of the Cthulhu Secret Realm, and the chance of advancing to Tier 5 is definitely twenty to thirty percent higher than outside," Shi Feng murmured, gazing at the magnificent city lord's mansion.

As Shi Feng quietly observed Ancient Rock City, more and more players gathered around, stunned by the city's transformation.

Ancient Rock City, which was supposed to be in ruins, was now comparable in scale to a kingdom's capital. The visible mist-like magic power within the city, combined with its location near the Orc Empire's inner region, made it an ideal resting place for raiding the Orc King City.

Seeing the crowd growing, Shi Feng directly entered Ancient Rock City and flew towards the city lord's mansion.

City advancement was no longer protected by the system. The entire Ancient Rock City could be said to be in its weakest state. If a hostile force were to attack, it would be extremely difficult to defend.

So, the first thing to do was to activate the core magic array of the city lord's mansion to form a city-protecting magic array. With a main city-level magic array, even Tier 5 classes would have trouble, and as long as there were enough magic crystals, it could definitely hold off one or two.

However, after Shi Feng entered the city lord's mansion, he was shocked by its internal environment.

The environment within the entire mansion was comparable to that of the ancient God's Domain, and the clarity of the magic element operation was even greater than the underground secret room of Zero Wing City...

The underground secret room of Zero Wing City allowed dozens of people to train inside because of the existence of a Hetero-beast Statue, and it cost a lot of magic crystals. But now, the entire city lord's mansion was not much worse than the underground secret room, and there would be no problem for thousands of people to train here at the same time.

As for the core control room of the city lord's mansion, a black door was wide open, and the magic power from the secret realm was constantly being guided out and poured into all parts of the city lord's mansion. The Cthulhu Secret Realm had also undergone considerable changes.

The Cthulhu Secret Realm, which had previously blocked outsiders, now had a staircase, a total of forty-nine steps, leading into the secret realm. Each step required a higher level of spatial stability from the player, all the way to the top, where players needed to fully master the basic use of magical elements.

On the second floor of the control room, there was a staircase that led directly into the Cthulhu Secret Realm, but the minimum requirement was that players must reach Tier 4 class level 150, and each person had to pay one thousand magic crystals.

In other words, there were now two ways to enter the Cthulhu Secret Realm.

One was free, but required players to master the basic use of magical elements.

The other was to pay a fee of one thousand magic crystals. This was undoubtedly a great benefit for Tier 4 players who could not enter the secret realm. After all, a level 150 God-ranked secret realm would be of great help to Tier 4 classes just by staying inside.

Not to mention the monsters in the God-ranked secret realm, each of them was rich.

It was rumored that in God-ranked secret realms above level 150, any monster was a Tier 4 Legendary, with a drop rate two to three times higher than the outside world, and five times the experience points, a real treasure trove.

But at the same time as being a treasure trove, any monster inside had a combat level no less than that of a Refinement Realm expert from the outside world, and even more powerful monsters could reach the level of a top expert. However, these monsters were all in groups, and ordinary Tier 4 class experts who entered would not even know how they died.

Only Tier 5 classes could save their lives inside, but if they encountered the same Tier 5 Legendary Saint Realm monsters, they might still die...

Because any Tier 5 Saint Realm monster in the God-ranked secret realm had a minimum combat level of a top expert. Coupled with their incredibly powerful basic attributes, it was difficult for ordinary Tier 5 experts to withstand them head-on. Generally, three Tier 5 classes were needed, and they must be a MT, Healer, and DPS in coordination to have a chance to kill them. To kill them normally, two more Tier 5 DPS classes were needed. Otherwise, their transcendental health and extraordinary combat recovery would be enough to drive Tier 5 class experts to despair.

Shi Feng was also a little excited about this.

Because in God-ranked secret realms above level 150, there was a chance to drop God Crystals. This was an important item for upgrading many legendary-grade item fragments, and there was even a chance to drop Tier 5 magic skill books. These were all key to improving the combat power of Tier 5 classes.

However, Shi Feng calmed down. To raid a level 150 God-ranked secret realm, with his current strength alone, even if he took Fire Dance and others in, he could only kill Tier 4 High Legendary monsters at most. He should not even think about Tier 5 Legendary Saint Realm monsters.

Afterward, Shi Feng spent 300,000 magic crystals to activate the core magic array of the control room, enveloping the entire Ancient Rock City with a layer of divine rune barrier, increasing its defense by an unknown amount compared to before.

As the core magic array was activated, the entire Ancient Rock City seemed to awaken like a sleeping giant beast. Magic power within a radius of 20,000 yards began to converge towards Ancient Rock City, reducing the magic power density within that radius to such an extent that only Tier 3 players who had activated Magic Body could survive. It was difficult for other Tier 3 class players to even approach Ancient Rock City.

In this low-magic environment, even Tier 4 classes experienced a significant drop in flight speed.

As for attacking Ancient Rock City, even Tier 5 class experts would see a significant decrease in the power of their magic skills...

"What a powerful core magic array!" Shi Feng in the city lord's mansion was stunned.

He originally wanted to adjust the core magic array of Ancient Rock City and add the Twelve Magic Arrays of the Demon World, but now he did not dare to do anything at all, because the entire core magic array was composed of countless divine runes, not just a simple magic array. Any slight change could cause problems.

With the current core magic array, Ancient Rock City's defense level was probably not much worse than Zero Wing City's, which was protected by World's Boundary.

This was just the normal operating state of the core magic array, not even at its limit.

After activating the core magic array, Shi Feng immediately had Fire Dance start teleporting a large number of people over.

In less than twenty minutes, the originally empty Ancient Rock City was instantly filled with more than 200,000 Tier 3 experts from Zero Wing, and more than thirty Tier 4 class members were stationed there. To be on the safe side, Fire Dance also dispatched three Crimson Dragon Airships, six Tier 4 Fine-Gold NPC guards, and two Tier 4 Dark-Gold NPC guards.

The combat power of the entire Ancient Rock City was probably not much worse than the headquarters of the various super forces.

"Guild Leader, the city defense has been basically arranged. Do we need to open Ancient Rock City now?" Fire Dance asked after reading the report from her subordinates.

"Open it," Shi Feng said almost without hesitation. "As for the entrance fee, set it at one magic crystal, or forty silver coins!"

Guild cities could only absorb more NPC guards after they were opened, strengthening the defense of Ancient Rock City. Moreover, just maintaining the operation of the city's array every day required at least 100,000 magic crystals. If they did not open it to earn magic crystals, the guild's magic crystals would be exhausted sooner or later.

As Ancient Rock City opened, many members of the forces who had come to investigate Ancient Rock City poured in. In particular, the adventurer teams that had been raiding Orc King City entered Ancient Rock City without saying a word, wanting to see what it was like. As for the high price, they did not care too much.

Because Orc King City was a great treasure trove, any player who came to raid Orc King City was currently a top-tier expert, with a minimum combat power of Tier 3 peak. Currently, just clearing the monsters in the outer area and the inner area every day could yield generous rewards. If they were lucky, they could even obtain a level 150 epic-grade equipment. Ancient Rock City was the closest guild city to Orc King City, without exception.

In just less than two hours, the number of players who poured into Ancient Rock City exceeded 600,000, all of them Tier 3 class experts.

Any player who entered Ancient Rock City was shocked by its magnificence and superior environment. Not only was the speed of clearing the alien energy in their bodies extremely fast, but the effect of storing double experience reached 30% in 24 hours, with a storage limit of two levels.

It should be known that Tier 3 class players could not necessarily increase their experience bar by 30% even after 24 hours of grinding in the wild.

Especially after reaching level 140, it was definitely a fierce grinder to increase their experience value by 20% a day.

Resting on the streets of Ancient Rock City not only did not delay the leveling of the players, but also allowed them to level up faster. How could this not excite the experts? In the past, they needed to stay in a hotel here to have this effect, but now it was free. If they stayed in a hotel now, the improvement effect would be even more amazing.

For a time, the news about Ancient Rock City spread throughout the eastern continent of God's Domain, making the various super forces that had wanted to take action itch their teeth, and they could only give up and wait for the forces from the outer world.

While the vast number of Tier 3 experts were exclaiming about the environment of Ancient Rock City, Shi Feng also took the Beast Emperor to the War God Temple of Star-Moon Kingdom.

Previously, because he could not leave the vicinity of Ancient Rock City, Shi Feng could only temporarily imprison the Beast Emperor.

Now that Ancient Rock City had been settled, he naturally could not let go of the Beast Emperor. In particular, the War God Temple deeply hated the Evil God Temple, and the reward for the Beast Emperor, a high-ranking apostle of the Evil God Temple, was extremely high.

As soon as Shi Feng took the Beast Emperor into the hall of the War God Temple, a level 180 senior deacon immediately came forward.

"This lord is here to claim the reward, right? Please come with me. The Palace Lord is currently in the War God Hall." The level 180 Tier 3 senior deacon looked at Shi Feng with respect in his eyes.

"Okay! Lead the way!" Shi Feng nodded.

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