Chapter 1 The Passage of Time

Time slipped away little by little. Before he knew it, Shi Feng had waited for over an hour in the bar.

Although Shi Feng hadn't done anything in particular, he had gained a great deal.

Bars, as places where players often chat and exchange information, made it easy to gather a lot of intelligence, especially about the Fifth District.

After gathering information, Shi Feng only needed to slightly organize it to finally understand what the Fifth District was.

It had to be said that it was more like a real world.

The Fifth District was basically a simple shelter that allowed players to be closer to high-level monsters without wasting a lot of time running around.

Because there was no teleportation magic array here, players had to rely entirely on their legs to move around.

Here, the monsters were ferocious and plentiful. Players generally went out in teams, and no one dared to act alone. Any player who could act alone was a master among masters, known as a lone wolf, which was a proof of strength and therefore highly admired.

In addition, the shelter could effectively resist monster attacks, because the nights here were very terrifying.

How terrifying?

Monsters would attack players in hordes, and even a hundred-man elite team could not survive outside the shelter.

Even in the shelter, they had to face sea-like waves of monster attacks, forcing all players to work together to resist these monsters.

If the shelter was breached, the players' range of activity would also be limited, and they would have to retreat to lower-level areas. If they wanted to kill high-level monsters in the future, they would have to run a long way from the low-level area to the high-level area.

Moreover, the night here was longer than the day. In other words, out of the 48 hours in God's Domain, 30 hours were night and only 18 hours were day, so there was not much time for players to level up.

This highlighted the importance of the shelter.

Otherwise, players would have to spend eight or nine hours every day just running back and forth to level up, or even more than ten hours. How could they level up at all?

Currently, the Fifth District was one of the shelters in the high-level area.

Players here didn't need to spend a lot of time running around, and could easily encounter high-level monsters, go to high-level dungeons, take on high-level quests, and so on.

However, precisely because of this, the players here were generally of very high level.

Because every day they had to face an attack from a large army of monsters at night. Killing these monsters not only gave them a lot of experience points, but also allowed them to complete high-level quests and obtain a lot of money and equipment.

And the most precious thing for a shelter was the Soul Crystal. This thing could enhance the power of the shelter's magic array, greatly weakening the power of monsters during monster attacks, making it easier for players to repel them. And submitting Soul Crystals to the shelter could earn a lot of contribution points. These contribution points were equivalent to the shelter's money and could be used to buy certain items to enhance the player's strength.

For example, the Tier 1 forbidden spell used by the Curse Warlock from the Iron Fist Squad was one of the good things that could be exchanged with contribution points.

Therefore, the players here were extremely eager for Soul Crystals.

However, this thing was really useless to Shi Feng. He wouldn't be staying here to live, but just a passerby to complete a task.

"Although the Soul Crystal is useless to me, it would be good to exchange it for gems." Shi Feng looked at the three Soul Crystals in his backpack and couldn't help but think of a good idea to make money.

Gems were easier to obtain here than outside.

Because during the monster attacks at night, those elite monsters above the leader rank had a high probability of dropping gems, and lord monsters would even drop Tier 2 gems, so the gem production here was relatively high.

Players outside rarely inlaid gems, but here it was very common. Many players had inlaid a full set of gems, and their basic attributes were much stronger than those of players outside.

And the price of gems was also much cheaper than outside.

Outside, a Tier 1 gem sold for 10 silver coins, but here it only cost 5 silver coins. Tier 2 gems sold for 90 silver coins to 1 gold coin outside, but here they only sold for 40 silver coins, which was more than half the price.

And here, a Soul Crystal sold for 40 gold coins. Even so, people were still fighting for it, all because the drop rate of Soul Crystals was very low. Only leader monsters above level 40 had a relatively high drop rate, which was why the Iron Fist Squad kept hunting leader monsters above level 40.

After Shi Feng finished organizing the information, Iron Fist brought a silver-armored knight to the bar.

As soon as this knight with a stubble beard and thick eyebrows walked into the bar, the bar immediately became quiet, and everyone turned to look at the silver-armored knight.

"Why is the Third Squad's captain, Retribution Paradise, here?"

"Could it be that Retribution Paradise is here to recruit new members?"

"How is that possible? That's the Third Squad in our Fifth District. Even if they recruit new members, they will choose from the candidates. Why would they come to the bar?"

"I heard that all six official members of the Third Squad have learned Tier 1 forbidden spells and forbidden techniques. They can be safe and sound even outside at night, and can level up and grind monsters at will."

"Yeah, the strength of the Third Squad is now the closest to the First Squad. Maybe in the next ranking battle, Retribution Paradise will be the captain of the Second Squad."

Everyone cast envious and awed glances at the silver-armored knight who walked in.

In the shelter, the higher the ranking of the squad, the more resources they could get, and the more authority they had in the shelter. They could buy some good things that ordinary squads couldn't buy, so that they could improve the strength of the squad faster.

Then they saw Retribution Paradise and Iron Fist walk to Shi Feng, who was sitting in a corner of the bar.

"Expert brother, let me introduce you. This is Retribution Paradise, the captain of our Fifth District's Third Squad. He knows a lot about the Dark Cave." Iron Fist introduced with a smile.

"Hello, just call me Retribution." Retribution Paradise said with a smile.

Although Retribution Paradise was a strong player in the Fifth District, he didn't have any arrogance at all, but was very kind and straightforward.

Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw that Retribution Paradise, the captain of the Third Squad, and Iron Fist, the captain of the Seventh Squad, actually took the initiative to greet a swordsman they had never seen before.

"Who is that person? Why haven't I seen him before?"

"Could it be that that person is one of the top ten captains from another district?"

"I'm afraid it's more than just the top ten. Didn't you hear Iron Fist call that person an expert? Maybe he's from one of the top three squads, otherwise why would Retribution Paradise come over?"

Everyone was speculating about Shi Feng's identity.

However, a sentence from Retribution Paradise instantly shocked everyone.

"Brother Yefeng, I wonder if you would be willing to join our Fifth District's expeditionary army?"