Tianyun Lao Mao

Chapter 1754 The Beginning of a Nightmare

Chapter 1750 Magic Light Set

Not long after the Adventurer's Alliance exchange benefits appeared on the official forum, they spread throughout Windhelm City like a computer virus. Even the major guilds of Windhelm City were wide-eyed at the information.

Level 50 Fine-Gold ranked set!

This was the equipment that all the major guilds were dreaming of right now.

"The Shura Adventurer Team is too ruthless! They actually took out such chips to win over those free players!"

"How exactly did they get this Magic Light set?"

"Damn! If I had this Magic Light set, I could solo a level 55 High Lord."

"No wonder the attributes of the Shura Adventurer Team members are so strong. It turns out they're wearing the Magic Light set."

The higher-ups of the major guilds in Windhelm City were silent for a moment as they looked at the exchange benefits offered by the Shura Adventurer Team.

In terms of exchanging equipment alone, these guilds were far behind the Shura Adventurer Team. However, compared to exchanging weapons and equipment, the second exchange benefit offered by the Shura Adventurer Team was the real headache.

Combat techniques!

This was much more valuable than any weapon or equipment.

Weapons and equipment were ultimately external objects, and as players' levels continued to rise, weapons and equipment would be constantly replaced. It wasn't like getting the best weapons and equipment now meant that they could be used for a lifetime.

Combat techniques were different. They could accompany players forever, fundamentally improving their combat power, which was many times more valuable than weapons and equipment.

If players were given the choice between level 50 Dark-Gold ranked weapons and equipment or a combat technique, most players would choose the combat technique. Even if they chose level 50 Dark-Gold ranked weapons and equipment now, they wouldn't be able to obtain a combat technique. When they reached level 60, level 50 Dark-Gold weapons and equipment would be nothing more than ordinary equipment. However, with a combat technique, even if their current weapons and equipment weren't good, their skill level would be there, and it would only be a matter of time before they could obtain good equipment.

This was what all the major guilds had been wanting, but combat techniques were too difficult to obtain.

They didn't have any clues so far. They were all researched by some gifted experts themselves. These experts wouldn't teach these techniques to others, because they were their trump cards. If others learned them, they would undoubtedly lose a trump card.

Currently, Hecate was the only guild in Windhelm City that had mastered combat techniques. However, Hecate controlled the combat techniques very strictly. Only core members who had signed a contract were qualified to learn them. As for the guild's experts who hadn't signed a contract, they weren't qualified to learn them...

Meanwhile, in the elegant and exquisite president's office of the Hecate Guild's residence, Bloodlight stared at the Adventurer's Alliance exchange benefits on the official forum, his face indescribably gloomy. The guild's higher-ups on the side were also dumbfounded.

"Is this Shura Adventurer Team crazy? They actually dare to take out combat techniques for exchange?"

"Are they not afraid that outsiders will learn these combat techniques and be detrimental to their future development?"

...

Everyone was talking at once, feeling puzzled by the Shura Adventurer Team's crazy behavior. They had never expected that the Shura Adventurer Team would use such a large sum of money to obtain Windhelm City.

"Vice President, I just received news that a large number of elite players who signed contracts with us are now breaking their contracts. The current number has exceeded a thousand, and the number is still increasing..." A level 52 Ranger suddenly walked in from outside the door and reported to Bloodlight urgently.

"Are these people crazy? If they break their contracts, they will have to compensate us with three gold coins!" The higher-ups standing on the side were dumbfounded.

The contracts they had signed with the free players before didn't mean that they couldn't break the contracts, but the price of breaking the contracts was very high.

Three gold coins weren't a small amount for expert players, let alone elite players. Although players' levels were increasing and their income was increasing, the maintenance and repair costs of weapons and equipment were also increasing. Moreover, there were many places where they needed to spend money, such as various common potions and magic scrolls, as well as food and accommodation. There wasn't much money left in their hands.

Elite players might have fifty or sixty silver coins to spare, while ordinary players might only have ten or twenty silver coins to spare. Only expert players had more money to spare, with two or three gold coins, and some wealthier ones could reach five or six gold coins. Therefore, they had initially set the compensation for breaking the contract at three gold coins, which was equivalent to half of the expert players' working capital.

But now...

In front of the Shura Adventurer Team's residence, a large number of free players poured in because of the Adventurer's Alliance's benefits. In less than half an hour, more than 50,000 free players lined up here, extending to four or five streets away, and the number was still increasing, forcing the Shura Adventurer Team to dispatch five or six hundred people to maintain order.

The magnificent scene stunned the members of the major guilds who came to investigate.

Among these players were many level 51 and level 52 elite and expert players, as well as some well-known adventurer teams in Windhelm City, and even some elite and expert members of the major guilds they knew. However, they had already left the guilds...

However, they couldn't be blamed.

They joined the guilds to obtain good weapons and equipment more easily. Otherwise, who would want to be bound by the guilds? However, the Adventurer's Alliance was now providing weapons and equipment, and the weapons and equipment they provided were even better than those of the major guilds. Even the combat techniques that expert players coveted could be exchanged and learned.

Such treatment couldn't be compared to ordinary guilds.

Naturally, many elite players and expert players wanted to join.

"Guild Leader, your move is too ruthless. I received news that some small guilds in Windhelm City have collapsed because of our benefits, with a large number of experts and elite members leaving the guilds, leading to the guilds' disintegration. Even a large guild like Hecate has lost more than three hundred expert players and three or four thousand elite members." Yan Ya walked into the ordinary forging room of the residence and excitedly reported to Shi Feng.

She didn't have any good feelings for the major guilds in Windhelm City, especially Hecate. They had tried to poach them before, and because of their rejection, they had openly offered a reward for them. If Shi Feng hadn't asked them to lead a team to the Icewind Canyon in the Land of Ice, she would have wanted to go directly to Hecate's leveling spot to return the favor.

Now that their Adventurer's Alliance's benefits were out, they had directly poached more than three hundred expert players from Hecate, which was simply too good.

In Windhelm City, even after absorbing the previous Gais Family, Hecate only had more than 2,700 expert players. Now that more than three hundred expert players had run away, Hecate's number of expert players had directly decreased by one-ninth, which was a great loss for Hecate.

She now wanted to see what the faces of Hecate's higher-ups looked like at this time.

"Ruthless?" Shi Feng shook his head and smiled. This was just the beginning. Then, he asked Yan Ya, "Did you get that thing?"

"Yes, the largest piece of land in Windhelm City has been bought, and a three-story shop has been built. As for the internal space renovation, it can only be done after going there. It cost a total of 8,000 gold coins, which almost used up all the adventurer team's savings." Yan Ya directly took out a land deed from her backpack and traded it to Shi Feng.

"Good! Let's go take a look at it now." Shi Feng nodded, took the land deed, and directly took Yan Ya to the largest piece of land in Windhelm City.

This piece of land was originally prepared for the guild, but because the geographical location wasn't very good, not in the central area, and the price wasn't low, no major guilds bought it. It just so happened to be a bargain for Shi Feng.

"Not bad, this should be enough." Shi Feng came to the three-story shop and was very satisfied.

At this time, some free players were already standing in front of the shop's gate, curiously observing this three-story shop.

In fact, not only were these players curious, but even Yan Ya, who was following Shi Feng, was also very strange as to why Shi Feng wanted to buy this sparsely populated piece of land to build such a large shop.

If they really wanted to buy something, they could completely buy a good piece of land in the central area. Moreover, the shop was so large that they didn't have that many things to sell, which was the most embarrassing thing.

However, Shi Feng didn't explain this. He just walked into the shop. At this time, the entire shop hall was empty, with nothing in it.

Shi Feng wasn't in a hurry to carry out internal renovation. Instead, he first took out magic crystals and a large number of rare materials from his backpack and began to draw a magic array in the center of the hall.

The magic array that Shi Feng wanted to draw was the Starlight Energy Gathering Magic Array that he had exchanged from the War God Temple in the early days. It could increase the magic concentration in a closed space with a radius of 500 yards by 300%. However, because the materials required for its construction were very harsh, and it required the ability to draw advanced magic arrays, Shi Feng had never used it.

Now, the materials needed to draw the magic array had already been collected by the Zero Wing Guild, and it could be used in this closed shop.

In a place like the Ice Crystal World, there was almost no high magic environment. In fact, not only the Ice Crystal World, but almost all alien worlds were like this. Only those high-level planes had a lot of them. This was also the main reason why the combat level of players in alien worlds was generally weak.

Without a sufficient high magic environment, it was difficult to improve one's strength.

If he wanted to truly improve the strength of the Shura Adventurer Team, it wouldn't be enough to rely on weapons, equipment, and combat techniques alone. Using the Ancient God Temple's teleportation to the God's Domain continent was too expensive, and it wasn't something that the current Zero Wing Guild or the Shura Adventurer Team could afford. Moreover, teleporting back and forth was a very troublesome thing, and it was easy to expose the secret of the Ancient God Temple if there were too many people.

Therefore, before coming to the Ice Crystal World, Shi Feng had already decided to build a place similar to the Stone Forest Town Arena in Windhelm City.

Finally, after Shi Feng spent an hour, he engraved the Starlight Energy Gathering Magic Array, forming a beautiful starlight phantom in the center of the hall.

"Guild Leader, what is this? It's so beautiful!" Yan Ya looked at the beautiful magic array in surprise, and was fascinated by it for a while.

"What?" Shi Feng smiled slightly. "Of course, it's a new world!"

As he spoke, Shi Feng spent five hundred magic crystals to directly activate the Starlight Energy Gathering Magic Array.