Chapter 1 The Beginning

Arriving at the White River City Teleportation Hall, Shi Feng directly chose to teleport to Lost Forest Town.

With a flash of white light, Shi Feng opened his eyes to find himself in the somewhat crowded town's teleportation hall.

Not only were there many players in the hall, but their levels were also above 40. Many of these people wore guild emblems and had serious expressions.

Besides these guild players, the vast majority of the remaining players were adventure teams of twenty or more people. There were very few players acting alone.

"Why are so many people here?" Shi Feng looked around, quite surprised.

Lost Forest Town was considered a relatively remote town in the entire Star-Moon Kingdom. There were no leveling maps nearby, mostly places below level 30. Although it was the closest NPC town to Witch Hill, it still took more than seven hours to reach Witch Hill using a mount, and Witch Hill was not a resource-rich leveling map.

In between lay the largest forest in the Star-Moon Kingdom.

The Maze Forest!

The monsters inside ranged from level 40 to level 50. Although the entire forest wasn't particularly dangerous, the interior was like a maze. If you weren't familiar with the terrain, getting lost was a common occurrence. The only thing it was famous for was the Dawn Flower.

Although the Dawn Flower was rare and a primary ingredient for brewing fine wines and disorientation potions, it was useless to current players. Logically, it shouldn't have attracted so many players.

"Heading to the Orc Fortress, a thousand-man team is forming, teams wanting to attack the Orc Fortress, sign up here!"

"Magic Charms for sale cheap, come find me if you want them, serious inquiries only!"

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As soon as Shi Feng left the teleportation hall, he saw that the not-so-wide street was overcrowded. Everywhere there were players forming groups, and many merchant players selling items, making a town that wasn't very prosperous in his previous life suddenly become extremely lively.

"Have the orcs already reached here?"

Shi Feng looked at the departing thousand-man teams, a feeling of astonishment filling his heart.

Witch Hill was in the southwest of the Star-Moon Kingdom, and Lost Forest Town was closer to the Orc Empire, but it definitely couldn't be considered the border.

Moreover, the teams acting were no longer hundred-man teams, but thousand-man teams. This was very rare in God's Domain. It usually only happened when entering very dangerous regional dungeons. Normally, a hundred-man team was enough.

Just as Shi Feng was about to find a bar to investigate, a regional announcement suddenly rang in his ears.

Lost Forest Town Regional System Announcement: An Orc army has broken through the defenses of the Star-Moon Kingdom's Third Legion and is heading towards Lost Forest Town. Lost Forest Town will enter a state of defense, and the Lost Forest Town defense mission will be activated. Estimated time of arrival is ten hours. Please prepare yourselves.

"Damn! The orcs are too fast. How long has it been, and they've already reached here?"

"Hahaha, great, now there are contribution points to earn!"

As the system announcement rang out, the players in the town exclaimed in surprise. Some were excited, some were surprised, but everyone was eager to participate in the town's defense mission.

Soon, the teams that were originally forming to go out began to change their goals, forming groups to defend against the Orc army's attack.

Moreover, members of the major guilds began to frantically contact their respective guilds.

"Boss, Lost Forest Town is under attack by orcs!"

"Guild Leader, you told me to keep an eye on the Orc Empire. Now the Orc Empire has reached Lost Forest Town. The attack is in ten hours."

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Members of the major guilds were constantly reporting the situation of the orcs and Lost Forest Town to the guild's upper echelons. After a short while, guild members and even famous adventure team members of the Star-Moon Kingdom continuously rushed to the Lost Forest Town teleportation hall.

Clearly, these guilds and adventure teams were very interested in defending the town and had already prepared, just waiting for the orc invasion.

Meanwhile, Shi Feng had just sat down at an open-air bar on the second floor to gather information from the Star-Moon Kingdom forums when Aqua Rose suddenly contacted him.

"Guild Leader, the Orc army has started attacking the Star-Moon Kingdom's Lost Forest Town. I received news that many large guilds have already sent large forces over. Should we organize something? I heard that if we can defend the town, the players participating in the defense will receive generous contribution points, and it will also increase the guild's influence in the Star-Moon Kingdom."

"Increase the guild's influence in the Star-Moon Kingdom?"

Hearing Aqua Rose's report, Shi Feng immediately understood why the major guilds seemed to have been prepared for this, so enthusiastic about defending the town.

In God's Domain, kingdoms and empires were not immutable entities. They could decline or prosper, and even guilds could replace them. This was why super forces could establish huge empires in God's Domain.

Relying solely on player-built cities was not enough to establish a kingdom or empire. It required controlling NPC kingdoms and empires.

It was like the Sea God's Domain, where each NPC city, although not completely controlled like a guild city, could still be controlled to a significant extent.

If guilds on the God's Domain continent wanted to control NPC cities or kingdoms and empires, they needed guild influence, which individual players could never achieve.

Of course, controlling NPC cities and kingdoms in the Star-Moon Kingdom wasn't just a matter of influence. It also required meeting other conditions, which couldn't be done at the current stage, because the players were too weak to compete with the NPCs in God's Domain.

However, accumulating guild influence in advance was still very necessary.

"Aqua, you organize it immediately. Since the major guilds of the Star-Moon Kingdom are participating, our Zero Wing Guild can't miss out either," Shi Feng said after thinking for a moment.

Although he had several ways to increase the guild's influence in the Star-Moon Kingdom through other channels, he still wanted to participate in such a ready-made opportunity to save time in the future.

"Guild Leader, should we have Bai Qinxue and the others come over?" Aqua Rose asked.

"No, let them go to their class advancement first," Shi Feng said, still very much looking forward to Bai Qinxue and Zhao Yueru advancing to Tier 2 classes. After all, Bai Qinxue and Zhao Yueru both had fragments of legendary items and were hidden classes. Their combat power after advancing to Tier 2 would definitely be extraordinary.

After Shi Feng hung up the call, he immediately left Lost Forest Town, found a deserted place, summoned the Abyssal Flame War Tiger, and headed straight for Witch Hill.

There were nearly ten hours before the attack on Lost Forest Town, enough time for him to settle the affairs of the guild city, and then return to command the guild in battle.

As a Dark-Gold ranked mount, the Abyssal Flame War Tiger's speed had been further increased after its bloodline was enhanced. For ordinary players, it would take more than seven hours to ride a mount through the Maze Forest to reach Witch Hill, but for Shi Feng, it only took less than four hours.

After Shi Feng arrived at a wide waterfall at Witch Hill, a towering city standing on the mountaintop appeared before him.

Unlike towns, the entire city was surrounded by tall stone walls, reinforced with magic patterns. The entire city was also covered by an invisible magic array. Players could only enter and exit through the gates, unlike towns where they could move around freely.

"It's really well-built," Shi Feng said, looking at the city from a distance, very satisfied.

In terms of scale alone, it was much larger than the low-level cities that had been promoted from high-level towns.

With that, Shi Feng rode the Abyssal Flame War Tiger and immediately ran over.