Chapter 1 The Advent of the Evil God

System: Congratulations, player, for accepting the epic main quest "The Advent of the Evil God." The quest objective is to eliminate the Evil God's followers within the Star-Moon Kingdom. If the Evil God's followers are not eliminated before they summon the Evil God's descent, the Star-Moon Kingdom will fall.

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After the system prompt rang three times in a row, Shi Feng was stunned for a while.

He was just delivering a message, yet he triggered the Star-Moon Kingdom's epic main quest. This was not a good thing for the Zero Wing Guild.

As the system prompt ended, the system announcement followed.

Star-Moon Kingdom Regional System Announcement: The new expansion pack, the Calamity of the Evil God, has been activated.

Star-Moon Kingdom Regional System Announcement: The ruins of the Evil God's Temple have been discovered in the Valley of the Undead, opening the Asura-level regional dungeon, Valley of the Undead. Players level 35 and above can enter.

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The system announcement was repeated three times, and the players throughout the Star-Moon Kingdom were immediately in an uproar.

"Awesome! Who triggered the new expansion pack?"

"An Asura-level regional dungeon! Where can we farm? The drops must be amazing."

"It's actually an Asura-level regional dungeon! The monsters inside will definitely drop Magic Crystals. Now I don't have to fight over them in the Stoneclaw Mountains."

The vast majority of players were very interested in the newly emerged regional dungeon.

Originally, within the Star-Moon Kingdom, only the Stoneclaw Mountains regional dungeon allowed players to farm Magic Crystals, but the major guilds of the entire Star-Moon Kingdom had gathered there. Even though the resources of the Stoneclaw Mountains were very abundant, the players there could only get a small share, and the competition was becoming increasingly fierce.

Now that a new Asura-level regional dungeon had appeared, it was good news for the vast majority of players. At least they had another option for obtaining Magic Crystals.

Moreover, the Valley of the Undead was much closer than the Stoneclaw Mountains, separated only by one regional map. However, the monsters in this regional map were slightly higher level, all level 50 or higher. Running all the way through, without a certain level of strength, you could easily die along the way, but this could also eliminate a batch of players and reduce some competition.

The only downside was the problem of resting and resupplying. Unlike the Stoneclaw Mountains, which had Stone Forest Town nearby, there was not even a small town near the Valley of the Undead, including the surrounding leveling maps. It took about three hours to run from the nearest teleportation point.

This was a headache for free players, but it was not unacceptable for the major guilds. At least going to the Valley of the Undead to farm monsters could reduce the Zero Wing Guild's repair fee extortion, and once the guild members' mounts were popularized, the time spent running would be greatly reduced.

For a time, the major guilds within the Star-Moon Kingdom began to prepare to advance into the Valley of the Undead.

A new regional dungeon meant that there were a large number of resources within the regional dungeon that had not yet been exploited. Entering the Valley of the Undead as soon as possible would allow them to obtain more resources than other guilds.

"Young adventurer, I hope you can help me with something." Grand Duke Hartfield looked at Shi Feng solemnly and said, "Now that the Evil God's followers have appeared again, I suspect it is the legendary necromancer Bain from fifteen years ago. I hope you can help me find him. Bain wants to hold a summoning ceremony, and will definitely massacre living beings on a large scale, gathering enough power to summon the Evil God's avatar. I have a Tracking Crystal here. This crystal records the power of the Evil God, and can help you detect the power of the Evil God within a certain range. As long as Bain is absorbing the power of living beings, the Tracking Crystal will display it. As long as you find their lair, you can leave the rest to us."

"But you must be careful when searching. Bain is a legendary necromancer, and the monsters he creates with the power of the Evil God are very powerful. Gathering the power to summon the Evil God's avatar requires a vast amount of power. He will definitely secretly cultivate many monsters to help him gather a lot of power. If you want to deal with these monsters, it is best to first go to the Evil God's Temple ruins in the Valley of the Undead to take a look. Maybe you can find a way to deal with those monsters there."

After Grand Duke Hartfield finished speaking, he gave Shi Feng a piece of azure crystal cube.

Tracking Crystal: After use, it can sense the fluctuations of the Evil God's power within a radius of 5000 yards. Cooldown time is half an hour. Each use consumes one Magic Crystal.

"This really is an inconvenient item." Shi Feng held the crystal cube in his hand, and was secretly speechless.

Fortunately, summoning the Evil God requires enough power. Those unicorn humanoid monsters will definitely continue to massacre monsters or players. As long as they do so, they will definitely be discovered. Then, use these unicorn monsters to find their lair.

Afterwards, Shi Feng left the Grand Duke's mansion with the Tracking Crystal, and notified Aqua Rose to arrange for a large number of people to search for clues of these monsters in the maps near Stone Forest Town, and then went to Blackwing City.

Meanwhile, in the Snake Worship's guild residence in Star-Moon City, the meeting, which should have been attended only by the guild's higher-ups, now had three additional players who were not members of Snake Worship.

"Guild Leader White, becoming a subordinate guild of our Blackwater Corporation has many benefits. Aren't you going to consider it any further?" A sinister short-haired youth, taking the lead, looked at White nhẹ Tuyết with a smile and asked.

"Many benefits?" Zhao Yueru on the side was very angry, "Directly merging our Snake Worship into your management, taking 90% of the guild's shares in one go, and providing less than one-tenth of the market price in funding, is this what you call benefits?"

"Don't say that. I think you should be very clear about the reputation and influence of our Blackwater Corporation. As long as we take over the Snake Worship guild, the Snake Worship will definitely become much stronger in the future." The sinister short-haired youth smiled and said, "Joining our Blackwater Corporation now is your best choice, or you will only face destruction in the future, and you will get nothing at that time."

"Are you threatening me?" White nhẹ Tuyết frowned.

"It's not a threat, just a suggestion. I think the investment companies behind you don't want to be enemies with Blackwater, right?" As the sinister short-haired youth spoke, he looked at the guild elders on the side, "Your guild elders should be the most clear about this. Haven't they told you?"

"What exactly is going on?" White nhẹ Tuyết stared at the few guild elders beside her. These elders were also representatives of the investment companies in Snake Worship. It could be said that they all represented the intentions of those investment companies.

"We several investment companies have already reached a consensus to join the Blackwater Corporation. nhẹ Tuyết, don't blame us. We have no choice. The Blackwater Corporation has been secretly suppressing our several companies. Now the companies' funding chains are in dire straits. If this continues, I'm afraid they will all go bankrupt. We have no choice but to compromise." An elder whispered in explanation.

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