Chapter 1 The Prelude

Red Leaf Town, Fountain Square.

The setting sun cast a pale red hue across the entire square. Many lifestyle players had set up snack stalls by the pond, selling unique delicacies of God’s Domain.

These snacks were delicious, even better than the food in reality, and the price was only two or three copper coins, making them a great value.

After a hard day's fighting, many players would come here to rest and taste the delicacies of God's Domain. After all, they could earn dozens of copper coins a day, and after deducting expenses, they could still have more than ten copper coins left to enjoy.

Many couples were sitting on stone chairs chatting, eating snacks they bought, and enjoying this wonderful time.

Suddenly, all players in Red Leaf Town received a system message.

System: A player has triggered a special storyline, opening the storyline 'Murloc Riot'. Red Leaf Town has launched a punitive expedition. Players can go to the Adventurers' Guild to receive punitive expedition quests. Completing the quests will reward generous rewards and guild honor.

All the players were immediately excited. In Red Leaf Town, where quests were scarce, there was actually a punitive expedition quest with generous rewards. It was simply unbelievable.

"Who is so powerful that they can trigger a special storyline?"

This player attracted the attention of the players in Red Leaf Town. Everyone could imagine that this player's gains would be great. After all, they had opened a storyline. This kind of thing was absolutely rare, so how could the gains not be rich?

Many players had thoughts of killing this player who opened the storyline quest, but unfortunately, the system announcement did not reveal the player's name.

Compared to ordinary players, the major guilds were already in an uproar. At this stage, besides clearing dungeons, which could grant guild honor, there was not a single quest that could increase guild honor.

Guild honor was a necessary condition for upgrading guilds. As long as they could upgrade to a level 2 guild earlier, the guild could obtain corresponding guild benefits, which would allow them to be a big step ahead of other guilds.

At this time, not only Red Leaf Town but also several small towns around Scarletwater Lake received this system notification. Major guilds began planning for the Murloc punitive expedition.

The culprit who triggered the storyline, Shi Feng, was sitting in the auction house.

The auction house was a very convenient place. The items that players put up were not only visible throughout Red Leaf Town, but also to hundreds of small towns and cities under the jurisdiction of White River City. However, the auction house was also very greedy, charging a 5% handling fee, so the prices of the items on it were generally high.

However, for selling things that you don't want people to see, the auction house is undoubtedly a good choice. Moreover, God’s Domain has been open for so long, players have saved a lot of money, and major guilds should have collected a lot of funds. If you just set up a stall in Red Leaf Town, it would be too eye-catching, like being targeted by Yan Hu last time.

The main reason is that there are too few players who can afford to buy in Red Leaf Town, and the selling price will not be very high, but the competition among hundreds of small towns is very different.

So Shi Feng put a Mysterious-Iron ranked plate armor equipment in the auction house, with a starting price of 25 silver coins, and five Bronze ranked equipment. The plate armor had a starting price of 3 silver coins, and the others each had a starting price of 2 silver coins. These equipment were all things that the team didn't need. As for the level 10 Fine-Gold greatsword, putting it up would be too terrifying, because this weapon was worth at least two gold coins, which is 200 silver coins. Who could afford it when 1 silver coin is very valuable right now?

Then, on Shi Feng's semi-transparent screen, he searched his bag. The initial bag given only had 100 slots, which was far from enough for Shi Feng. Each player could equip up to 7, so he directly bought 6 of the largest bags currently available. Each bag had 25 slots of space and cost 40 copper coins, so 6 bags cost 240 copper coins. Ordinary players definitely couldn't afford it, but it was just small change for Shi Feng.

After equipping the 6 bags, the storage space immediately increased a lot.

Then Shi Feng walked out of the auction house and started setting up a stall not far in front of the auction house. He had no interest in the storyline quest that he triggered.

He had already eaten and drunk his fill, so he had to let others have some soup, so he wouldn't compete with them.

"Buying a large quantity of magic essence and stone, 6 copper coins for a stack of magic essence, 10 copper coins for a stack of stone." Shi Feng shouted loudly.

At this stage, magic essence is one of the materials for practicing enchanting, and stone is also one of the crafting materials for engineering. However, these things are dropped by many monsters from levels 0 to 3, so they are not worth much. The materials that those guild players get can completely supply the guild's lifestyle players, so they never buy these things, and ordinary players occasionally buy a little.

However, there are still a huge number of players who cannot process their magic essence and stone. They usually choose to sell it cheaply to NPCs. A set of 20 bottles of magic essence sells for only 5 copper coins, and a set of 100 pieces of stone sells for only 9 copper coins. Shi Feng uses a price that is 1 copper coin higher to buy it, so needless to say, many players are very happy to sell it to Shi Feng. After all, one more copper coin per set is a lot of income.

Magic essence is an essential material for making armor of defense. In addition, a large amount of copper ore and bronze ore is also needed. These ores are very scarce, and major guilds are buying them in large quantities, but unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain them.

Shi Feng originally planned to mine the ore himself, but with the Philosopher's Stone, the ore is no longer a problem. The Philosopher's Stone has the ability to refine elemental essence, which means that it can refine stone and has a high probability of obtaining ore, even rare ore. There is no need to personally mine the ore. Stone is very cheap, and nearly ten thousand players have become Shi Feng's laborers.

Soon a large number of players gathered in front of Shi Feng.

"Big brother, will you buy these 6 stacks of magic essence that I have?"

"I have 3 stacks of stone, do you want them?"

Many players began to ask, worried that Shi Feng had bought enough. After all, there were too many magic essence and stone. It was a pity to sell them to the NPCs, but no one else would buy them, so the players kept them in their bags.

"I want them all, just trade directly," Shi Feng said.

Shi Feng had accumulated a lot of wealth before, and coupled with his transaction with Bai Qingxue, he already had a lot of wealth and could completely purchase a large amount of magic essence and stone.

Before long, one player sold 3 stacks of magic essence, another player sold 5 stacks of stone, and Shi Feng quickly bought 60 stacks of magic essence and 85 stacks of stone, leaving him with less than ten copper coins.

"Sorry, I've bought enough," Shi Feng said as he put away his stall and explained.

Immediately, many players who came to sell magic essence and stone looked disappointed.

"Big brother, will you buy them again in the future?" one player asked.

"Yes, but you have to wait for a while, you can save them for now," Shi Feng said affirmatively. The magic essence and stone he was currently buying were not enough for Shi Feng to reach the level of Advanced Blacksmith Apprentice.

Leaving Commercial Street, Shi Feng went to the Blacksmith Association and spent 5 copper coins to rent an ordinary forging room for 1 hour.

In an ordinary forging room, all forging tools are available without having to buy them yourself. An intermediate forging room is very expensive, increasing the success rate by 3%, but it costs 1 silver coin per hour. There are no advanced forging rooms in small towns, only in cities, but the prices are shockingly expensive.