Chapter 184 What?

“What?”

“Stone Forest Town is allowing outsiders to enter, and there’s even a blacksmith shop inside that can repair equipment!”

The various teams resting outside Stoneclaw Mountains felt like they had heard heavenly music when they received this news.

Stone Forest Town was only an hour away from Stoneclaw Mountains. Even a round trip would only take two hours. Compared to the supply teams' waiting times of more than ten hours, it was nothing.

“Let’s go, we’re going to Stone Forest Town.”

The leaders of the various teams issued orders one after another, quickly advancing towards Stone Forest Town.

In fact, going to Stone Forest Town was not only for repairing equipment, but also for accelerating the recovery of stamina and mental strength. Relying solely on camping tents was not enough.

In just a few hours, the sparsely populated Stone Forest Town became lively.

"Guild Leader, allowing the people from Shifting Serpent to enter Stone Forest Town is one thing, but now allowing everyone to enter Stone Forest Town for rest and recuperation, isn't that too much of a bargain for them?" Aqua Rose stood on the viewing platform of the Guild Residence, looking at the members of the various guilds below, as happy as if it were New Year's Day, and said with some confusion.

Although more and more guilds were gathering now, making it unlikely to monopolize the area, allowing only the members of Shifting Serpent and Zero Wing to rest and recuperate in Stone Forest Town would definitely allow them to obtain more magic crystals than other guilds. This would allow them to cultivate experts faster than other guilds and create a certain gap.

Now that they had worked so hard to establish Stone Forest Town, allowing people from various guilds to rest and recuperate in Stone Forest Town at will, how would they widen the gap?

"You're too focused on the immediate benefits. Stoneclaw Mountains is just a regional dungeon after all. There's more than one place where you can get magic crystals. Moreover, as the level increases, the core members of the various guilds will reach Level 40 and can use mounts. That little gap will be quickly erased by more than half," Shi Feng said with a smile. "Moreover, establishing a town is not just for getting more magic crystals, but for making money."

"Making money?" Aqua Rose was even more puzzled. "Although Stone Forest Town has a unique advantage, I'm afraid the various guilds will not buy anything from Candlelight Trading Firm at all. They all use consumables made by their own guilds. How can we make money?"

"Look at the blacksmith shop." Shi Feng pointed to the blacksmith shop in the distance, where a long line was forming. "That's where we make big money."

There were hundreds of players in front of the blacksmith shop, each with the equipment of a team in their backpacks. Hundreds of people added up to hundreds of teams. It was conceivable how considerable the equipment to be repaired was.

"But the equipment repair fee of the blacksmith shop will not fall on our heads. We can only collect taxes." Aqua Rose was even more confused.

"The taxes we collect are fixed, that's right, but don't forget that all the real estate in the town is controlled by us. I'm just hiring NPCs to repair equipment, and I get to decide the price." Shi Feng said with a smug smile, "So I tripled the repair fee of the blacksmith shop. Whether you want to repair it or not is up to you."

Aqua Rose was shocked: "Triple, how can they be willing?"

The repair of a piece of equipment was not cheap in the first place. It could be said that one of the biggest expenditures of a guild was the repair fee. Tripling it would simply cost the lives of the various guilds.

"That's right, I just don't want them to spend money to repair it, because in addition to the triple repair fee, there is another payment method. This is something that only a guild town can do, that is, equivalent exchange. Not only can you pay with credits, but you can also use certain items, such as magic crystals." Shi Feng smiled calmly, "If you use magic crystals to pay the repair fee according to the market price, the repair fee is only 1.5 times the normal repair fee, and the magic crystals obtained by the blacksmith shop are ours, and we only need to pay some gold coins."

Shi Feng had already learned the income of the various teams from the intelligence from Shifting Serpent, and then estimated the repair fee price.

The normal price was too cheap for the various guilds, and raising it to 1.5 times was just within the acceptable range of the various guilds.

So now the people from the various guilds were gritting their teeth and repairing equipment in front of the blacksmith shop.

The repair fee for tens of thousands of pieces of equipment, how many magic crystals was that?

"Doesn't that mean the various guilds are earning magic crystals for our Zero Wing?" Aqua Rose immediately understood everything. No wonder Shi Feng was so generous in allowing the various guilds to enter and exit Stone Forest Town at will.

Compared to Zero Wing going to Stoneclaw Mountains to farm magic crystals by themselves, letting the various teams go not only earned more, but also saved time and effort.

"That's nothing. They'll know in the future that once they come to Stone Forest Town, the magic crystals in their hands are no longer theirs." Shi Feng never thought about spending energy to monopolize Stoneclaw Mountains. With so many free laborers, why should Zero Wing's core members waste their time?

In fact, in addition to the blacksmith shop, the price of the hotel had also doubled. If magic crystals were used for payment, it would be the normal price. In addition, the price of the newly built recreation ground was twice as expensive. Similarly, the price for magic crystal payment was normal, which meant that Stone Forest Town had become a treasure land for earning magic crystals.

It was initially estimated that Stone Forest Town could earn more than two thousand magic crystals a day, and as time increased, more and more players would pour in. The magic crystals earned would increase more and more.

If Zero Wing's main force and the Black God Legion entered Stoneclaw Mountains, they would not be able to earn a thousand magic crystals even if they worked hard for a day, let alone more than two thousand?

With a daily income of two thousand magic crystals, plus the magic crystals obtained from the usual guild dungeon runs, it was enough to support Zero Wing Guild's huge daily consumption. Otherwise, the magic crystals accumulated with great difficulty before would be used up in a few days.

The various guilds in Stone Forest Town were also complaining, gnashing their teeth at Zero Wing Guild, but there was nothing they could do, because Stone Forest Town was controlled by Zero Wing Guild, and it was impossible to capture Stone Forest Town now. They could only grit their teeth and split a part of the magic crystals, after all, saving so much time allowed them to obtain more magic crystals, which meant they earned even more overall.

After Shi Feng finished arranging the affairs of Stone Forest Town, he returned to White River City, handed over the daily affairs of Stone Forest Town to Aqua Rose to manage, and prepared to concentrate on taking down the first kill of the Frozen Prison.

As a 100-man team dungeon, the difficulty of攻略was very high.

Even now, there were only a handful of guilds that could take down the first kill of a 100-man dungeon. There wasn't even one around Star-Moon Kingdom.

It wasn't that everyone's equipment was not up to par, but that everyone's combat skills were not up to par. Even Heavenly Burial and Alluring Summer, which gathered experts, were still far behind, so the various guilds were stuck in front of the final Boss and could not move forward.

It was precisely because of this that Shi Feng had not led the team to攻略 the Frozen Prison.

But now it was different. In order to improve the strength of the main force, Shi Feng invested a large number of magic crystals, allowing everyone to continuously improve their combat skills. He even took out Hundred Berry Wine, allowing everyone to taste it. After this period of improvement, the entire team basically relied on their own strength to enter the fifth floor of the Trial Tower, worthy of being called experts.

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