Chapter 1 The Start

Phoenix Rain's voice wasn't loud, but Qing Huang was stunned.

Epic-rank weapon!

This was definitely a god-tier existence in the current God's Domain. Even Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion had only managed to get one Epic-rank item with great difficulty, but it wasn't a weapon, but a cloth armor bracer.

This Epic-rank cloth armor bracer had caused endless disputes between Phoenix Pavilion and Azure Dragon Pavilion, both wanting to possess it, but in the end, the Grand Pavilion Master gave it to Sister Qianyu.

Because of this, Azure Dragon Pavilion's Nine Dragon Emperor was furious.

But Nine Dragon Emperor had no choice. He wasn't a magic-based class, but Phoenix Rain was an Elementalist. That Epic-rank bracer was very suitable for Elementalist. For maximum benefit, it was naturally given to Phoenix Rain.

The power of Epic-rank items was self-evident.

Just by seeing the attributes, Qing Huang felt that Dark-Gold equipment was far inferior, not to mention that Epic-rank equipment had a certain increase to some basic attributes. Don't underestimate the 10% to 15% increase, but top expert players had over 500 main attributes. A 10% increase was not a small amount, not to mention the powerful skills that increased the base combat power by at least 20% to 30%.

Just one Epic-rank item had such an effect, how much would an Epic-rank weapon increase?

Qing Huang shuddered just thinking about it.

Shi Feng being able to break through the ice wall with a single sword strike was enough to show a thing or two.

But this made Qing Huang feel even more surprised. It was already a stroke of luck for their Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion to get one Epic-rank equipment, but how did a small Zero Wing Guild get an Epic-rank weapon?

"Now it seems that Zero Wing is not as simple as we see. Whether it is Star-Moon Alliance or Seven Sins, there is a reason for losing to Zero Wing. In short, let people pay more attention to Zero Wing Guild in the future. I always feel that Black Flame is unfathomable," Phoenix Rain pondered for a while and seriously instructed.

"I understand, I will have the intelligence department immediately start a comprehensive investigation of Zero Wing Guild again." Qing Huang saw Sister Qianyu with such a serious expression for the third time, and felt that Sister Qianyu thought too highly of Zero Wing.

Dragon-Phoenix Pavilion was a first-rate guild. Even if Zero Wing rose rapidly, it would be ten years too early to surpass the threshold of a first-rate guild.

Virtual online games had been developed for hundreds of years. In the hundreds of years of history, many emerging guilds had become first-rate guilds in one game, but so far no emerging guild had been able to leap to become an existence beyond first-rate guilds.

Even the current super guilds were like this, not to mention Zero Wing, which had no background.

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In the main venue of the Underground Arena, it was already crowded.

In the Underground Arena, there were two types of combat: one was the system's default ranking matches, divided into Ordinary Zone, Advanced Zone, and Special Zone, and the other was the unrestricted matches booked by players.

For this kind of unrestricted match, players didn't need to have any achievements in the Underground Arena to compete with the experts in the Special Zone, but the size and specifications of the venue were different, and the fees were also different.

Ordinary venues could accommodate more people than ranking matches, about 500 people. If you wanted to book the venue, it would cost three gold coins a day. Players could fight at will without any limit to the number of fights.

After that was the Advanced venue, which could accommodate three thousand people, costing ten gold coins a day to book.

The Special venue could accommodate 20,000 people, and booking it for a day would cost one hundred gold. Even large guilds wouldn't dare to book it at will.

Above the Special venue was a main venue, and the number of people it could accommodate depended on the level of each city. King's City could accommodate about 50,000 people, while the Underground Arena in the Imperial Capital could accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 people. As for the Four Empires, it could accommodate more, about 100,000 people.

In addition to accommodating many people at the same time, the biggest difference was the size of the battlefield.

Generally, ordinary venues could only conduct one-on-one battles.

Advanced venues could conduct up to three-on-three battles.

Special venues could conduct ten-on-ten battles.

The main venue could conduct hundred-on-hundred battles.

In the battles in the Underground Arena, sitting in the audience, you could easily observe the entire battle situation and observe every part of the battlefield at will.

There were often battles with more than 100 people in God's Domain, but there was no chance to observe them in detail because being too close could easily be affected. But in the Underground Arena, there was no such thing. You could see the battle process up close, so it was very popular among the players of God's Domain. The major guilds often used it to practice hundred-person team battles.

However, the main venue was unique, and the price was not cheap. The fee for a day in White River City was 300 gold, not to mention the Underground Arena of the Four Empires, which cost 600 gold a day.

Shi Feng made a net profit of about 1,000 gold a day through Zero Wing Guild and Candlelight Trading Firm, while here it cost 600 gold a day. Such competitions were held in the Underground Arenas of the Four Empires every day, costing at least 2,400 gold a day. It was conceivable how rich and generous the organizers of the Dark Arena were.

It should be known that all those who participated in the competition, or even the audience, were completely free. Of course, whether participating in the competition or being an audience, only those who were invited were eligible to enter. Others could not enter even if they wanted to.

But even so, the organizers made a lot of money.

Because they charged 1% of the handling fee for all the winning bets in the Underground Arena. 1% was nothing to the winning side, but the people who came to visit were all extraordinary. Even if it was only 1%, the wealth was extraordinary, not to mention the number of people participating in the bet.

The number of gold coins earned by an Underground Arena in a day far exceeded 600 gold.

With such great benefits, of course, the organizers were not eternal. In the early stages, it depended on power, and in the later stages, it depended on strength.

Why did the major consortiums want their teams to win continuously?

Because only the top-ranked teams were qualified to host the Dark Arena competition.

So it created the preciousness of the Dark Arena's team qualification.

These major forces would not bring these small forces at all, because the other small forces in God's Domain had no qualification to participate in the competition.

Shi Feng was very surprised that Phoenix Rain could get a team qualification.

"There are so many people here!" After Hei Zi entered the main venue, he looked around and was almost stunned.

The arena, which could accommodate 100,000 players, was now about 20% full, and everyone was extraordinary.

"The status of these people is extraordinary. At worst, they are probably high-level members of first-rate guilds." Aqua Rose swept around and found several high-level figures from first-rate guilds, and even the presidents of first-rate guilds could be seen.

"Not only are there high-level members of first-rate guilds in God's Domain, but many well-known experts in the virtual game world will also be invited to come. In addition, there are many representatives of large consortiums. But today's Dark Arena is really lively, reaching 20%." Shi Feng slowly explained.

He had been to the Dark Arena several times before, but at that time he was already over level 100 and knew many people in the Dark Arena. Moreover, the battles at that time were between two teams with very good strength, but the seating rate was only more than 30%. Now that the Dark Arena had just opened, reaching 20% was already quite high.

While Shi Feng and others were being led into the battlefield by the staff, a corner in the audience caused an exclamation.

"Isn't that Ye Feng?" Zhao Yueru rubbed her eyes, thinking she was mistaken, but no matter how much she zoomed in, that person was undoubtedly Ye Feng, "Why is he here?"

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