Chapter 1 Cold Wind City, Frostbone Plains

A large number of adventure team players were carefully clearing the roaming level 50-plus undead creatures here.

As a leveling map for levels 50 to 60, Frostbone Plains wasn't exactly rich in resources, but the undead creatures here had absorbed the power of ice and snow for many years. Defeating them gave a certain chance of dropping Ice-Snow Stones.

In the Ice Crystal World, many places had icy environments, and it was difficult to move around without a certain amount of ice resistance. Therefore, items that could increase ice resistance were valuable here, and Ice-Snow Stones could increase ice resistance.

As long as some were added when crafting weapons and equipment, the weapons and equipment had a certain chance of being imbued with ice resistance.

Although each piece of weapon or equipment only increased it by a small amount, accumulating them together was still very considerable.

This greatly increased the value of Ice-Snow Stones. Some guilds even used Ice-Snow Stones to exchange for good weapons and equipment. The reason why major guilds did this was because the drop rate of Ice-Snow Stones was very low. The major guilds didn't want to waste a lot of manpower and resources, but they needed Ice-Snow Stones, so they simply used Ice-Snow Stones to exchange for weapons and equipment.

Because of this, farming Ice-Snow Stones became the best choice for many free players to earn money and exchange for weapons and equipment.

However, the undead creatures in Frostbone Plains were not easy to farm. These undead creatures rarely acted alone, and when they did, they were in groups of hundreds or more. The lowest level was Elite, and the highest was Lord. Sometimes, when high-level Grand Lord-level Undead Generals patrolled, there would be five or six hundred of them.

Among the many adventure teams farming Ice-Snow Stones here, they generally acted in units of a hundred people. However, there was one twenty-person team that easily farmed level 50-plus Frozen Undead squads.

They saw this squad of hundreds of undead creatures being methodically taken down one by one by this twenty-person team. Even the two high-level Lord-ranked level 55 Frozen Commanders were firmly suppressed. In just over ten minutes, the entire undead squad was annihilated, dropping materials all over the ground.

"Man Qi, your combat level has improved so quickly recently. Now you can even fight a Frozen Commander alone. If it weren't for you holding off one of the Frozen Commanders, we would probably have had to run away," a level 51 Shield Warrior looked at a level 52 Guardian Knight beside him, who was carrying a deep blue rhomboid shield and wielding a crystal battle axe, and said with a smile.

"I recently studied the battle videos of the Shura Adventure Team and Hecate in detail, and gained some insights from Gu Jiuji and Dark Night Fantasy of the Shura Adventure Team. Otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to withstand a Frozen Commander alone." Man Qi nodded and said excitedly, "After this hunt, I should have collected enough materials to exchange for a level 50 Mithril Armor. Maybe I can challenge a level 55 Grand Lord then."

Speaking of the level 50 Mithril Armor, Man Qi's face was full of anticipation.

In order to collect enough Ice-Snow Stones for the exchange, he had farmed in Frostbone Plains for a long time. Once he had the level 50 Mithril Armor, he might be able to go deeper into Frostbone Plains and challenge the level 55 Grand Lords. The rewards would be much greater than now.

In the Ice Crystal World, after monsters reached level 50, the drop rate of rare materials plummeted. Grand Lord-level monsters were a watershed. They not only dropped high-quality rare materials, but also had a certain chance of dropping Mysterious Iron-grade weapons and equipment, which would greatly increase their income.

"The major guilds are too greedy now. Every exchange requires materials worth several times the equipment. I've only collected half of what I need so far. It's a pity that the level of our adventure team's blacksmith is not high enough, otherwise we could make our own level 50 Mithril equipment." The Shield Warrior couldn't help but envy Man Qi when he heard this.

Although their adventure team also had its own blacksmith, they were both Advanced Blacksmiths. However, due to differences in technical level and auxiliary tools, the gap between Advanced Blacksmiths was very large. Their adventure team's Advanced Blacksmith had difficulty crafting level 50 Mysterious Iron equipment, let alone Mithril-grade.

Without good equipment, they couldn't challenge more powerful monsters and obtain more resources.

Currently, only the blacksmiths of the major guilds had the ability to make level 50 Mithril equipment. Even if the major guilds charged high prices, they had no choice but to work for the major guilds as cheap laborers.

Just as everyone sat down to rest and chat, someone in the team suddenly shouted in the team chat.

"Hurry up and look, the Shura Adventure Team has announced on the official forum that the Adventurers Alliance has been officially established. If you want to sign up, go directly to the Shura Adventure Team's guild hall."

"Tch, so what if it's established? Although the Shura Adventure Team will provide some benefits, an adventure team is still just an adventure team, and it can't compare to a guild at all. Now the major guilds are targeting the Shura Adventure Team, who would dare to join the Adventurers Alliance?"

"Yeah! Level 50 Mithril equipment is controlled by the major guilds. Unless you don't want weapons and equipment, I really don't know what the Shura Adventure Team is thinking. They actually want to compete with the major guilds for control of Cold Wind City. Isn't that courting death?"

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Everyone wasn't interested in the establishment of the Adventurers Alliance. They just felt that Shi Feng, the leader of the Shura Adventure Team, was too stupid. He didn't want a good future and insisted on fighting the guilds for Cold Wind City.

After everyone talked for a while, they soon discovered that the Shura Adventure Team had issued a new announcement.

Adventurers Alliance Benefit List!

"What is this? Trying to attract people to join with benefits?"

"I really don't know what the Shura Adventure Team is trying to do? Even if the benefits provided by the Shura Adventure Team are good, how can they compare with the level 50 Mithril equipment made by the major guilds?"

Just as everyone clicked on this post, preparing to scoff at the Shura Adventure Team's foolish behavior, they were all stunned.

"What's going on?"

"Am I seeing things?"

"Damn! That's awesome! Even the major guilds probably can't do this!"

"Is this Shura Adventure Team really an adventure team? Could it be created by the system?"

Everyone looked at the post issued by the Shura Adventure Team, their eyes shining with golden light. Even just looking at it made them excited beyond words.

The benefits of the Adventurers Alliance introduced in the post were only three. The first was the exchange of weapons and equipment, the second was the exchange of battle techniques, and the third was the exchange of rare materials and props. All of this was exchanged using the internal points of the Adventurers Alliance as currency.

Each of these three benefits made the free players feel excited, especially the weapon and equipment exchange list provided by the Shura Adventure Team.

If it was just exchanging for level 50 Mysterious Iron-grade weapons and equipment, they would at most sigh and think that the Shura Adventure Team was not bad. If it was level 50 Mithril equipment, they would think that the Shura Adventure Team was desperate and simply crazy.

But the current exchange list actually had level 50 Fine-Gold equipment…

It was like a dream!

Level 50 Fine-Gold equipment was extremely rare in the major guilds. Even the core members of the guild might not be able to obtain it, but now the Shura Adventure Team actually took it out for direct exchange.

But that wasn't all.

What was even more dumbfounding was the complete set of level 50 Fine-Gold Magic Light Set!

Even Hecate, the number one guild in Cold Wind City, probably didn't have this kind of equipment, but the Shura Adventure Team actually took it out. The depth of its foundation was beyond insane.