Chapter 1 Ice Crystal World

Ice Crystal World, the forbidden life zone, the Icewind Canyon.

In the snowy valley, the biting cold wind howled. Without ice resistance, players standing here would be killed by the wind alone. Even with high ice resistance, their stamina consumption would be several times higher than outside.

Yet, the number of players in Icewind Canyon was considerable.

From the mountaintop, one could see large groups of players grinding and fighting, as if they were used to it.

"We've only been gone for a while, but I didn't expect so many people to be leveling up here," said Yan Ya, holding a verdant crystal staff and wearing an exquisite deep blue mage robe, clicking her tongue as she looked at the people fighting below.

The lowest level of players leveling here was 50, with most at level 51. Some of the players directing the battles were even level 52.

Even in an empire, that level would be enough to rank in the top thirty. Yet, the number of players at level 52 here far exceeded 30…

They had been adventuring in God's Domain all this time, and with Shi Feng taking them to level up, they were only level 54. But now, so many independent experts had reached level 52.

"There are more powerful monsters in the Ice Crystal World, and the experience points are also abundant, so the leveling speed is much higher than in God's Domain. The mainstream level of the major guilds is now close to level 50, so it's normal for the mainstream level of players here to reach levels 51 and 52," Shi Feng said with a smile, not surprised by this.

When he came to the Ice Crystal World before, the player levels were generally higher. Now that the player levels in God's Domain were approaching 50, the mainstream level here would naturally exceed 50.

However, what really surprised Shi Feng was the equipment these players wore.

The drop rate of weapons and equipment in the Ice Crystal World was extremely low, usually only dropping materials. Most weapons and equipment relied on lifestyle players to craft them, so in terms of equipment, they were behind the God's Domain continent. However, the level of lifestyle players was much higher.

Among these level 50 players, many wore level 50 Mysterious-Iron equipment, and even some wore level 50 Mithril equipment. This level of equipment was not inferior to that of God's Domain.

After all, the drop rate of level 50 weapons and equipment was greatly reduced, and the quality of the drops also declined.

The 50-man team dungeon was currently the goal of independent players. The best equipment dropped in this kind of team dungeon was only level 50 Mithril, but the drop rate was extremely low. Only Hell difficulty had a relatively higher drop rate, but the Hell difficulty 20-man team dungeon was too much for the current independent players.

Therefore, many players who reached level 50 wore only level 50 Mysterious-Iron equipment, with few reaching Mithril. As for the level 50 Fine-Gold equipment above that, only large guilds had the possibility of obtaining it.

It also wasn't easy for players to craft high-quality level 50 equipment.

Once the equipment level reached 50, the crafting difficulty greatly increased, and the success rate also dropped. Only because he had reached the Master rank, coupled with a bunch of top-quality auxiliary items, was he able to craft a lot of high-quality level 50 equipment.

It was hard to imagine that the lifestyle players in Coldwind City could craft level 50 Mithril weapons and equipment.

If they really reached this level, then the forging level of Coldwind City was at least one level higher than that of Candlelight Trading Firm.

Don't underestimate being just one level higher than Candlelight Trading Firm. Candlelight Trading Firm had a lot of forging secret techniques, and even Titan City to improve players' levels, plus the high magic environment of Zero Wing City was no worse than Coldwind City, and even slightly stronger.

For Coldwind City to surpass Candlelight Trading Firm in this way, how could Shi Feng not be surprised?

"Guild Leader, those people over there seem to be from our Shura adventurer team," said the Shield Warrior, Gu Jiuji, pointing to a fifty-man team fighting a level 56 Grand Lord in the distance, smiling slightly.

Six level 51 MTs were desperately resisting the level 56 Grand Lord Frost Giant Ape. Each attack of the Frost Giant Ape made the three MTs who were jointly resisting retreat a few steps, with damage of over 10,000 points appearing above their heads. Then the other three MTs would resist the next attack of the Frost Giant Ape, alternating back and forth like this.

More than 10,000 points of damage were nothing to a level 51 MT, but the real trouble was the freezing effect attached to the Frost Giant Ape's attacks. As long as they were hit, their bodies would start to move sluggishly. The more times they were hit, the slower their movement speed would become, and the higher the damage they would take.

Although the Frost Giant Ape was very strong, facing the Shura adventurer team of fifty people, its HP was still steadily decreasing, and it was only a matter of time before it was killed.

Hearing Gu Jiuji say this, Jing Wuming, Mu Xiaoxiao, Dark Night Rhapsody, Yan Ya and others from the Shura adventurer team all looked over, and for a time, they were filled with emotion.

The Shura adventurer team members fighting now had good strength and levels, but in their eyes, they were very naive.

This was a truth they deeply understood after leaving the Ice Crystal World.

Perhaps the player levels in the Ice Crystal World were higher, but in the God's Domain continent, the player combat level was many levels higher.

Just like the current Shura adventurer team, it took a full fifty people to suppress the level 56 Grand Lord Frost Giant Ape, but in the major guilds in God's Domain, perhaps twenty people would be enough, and the manpower saved could be used to deal with other Bosses.

Just as Gu Jiuji and others were discussing the Shura adventurer team's battle, a large group of players suddenly came to the Great Canyon, numbering over three thousand. The equipment on their bodies was almost the same, obviously standardized equipment crafted by players, all level 50 Mysterious-Iron equipment. Some of the captains among the players had more than five pieces of Mithril equipment, and the leaders directing the hundred-man teams had more than half of their equipment as Mithril.

The gorgeous and uniform equipment made everyone present envious, and at the same time, deeply fearful.

And these players all wore a black lion guild emblem, obviously guild players.

Looking at these guild players coming over, the players in the Great Canyon were all discussing.

"So powerful! Is that Hecate?"

"As expected, they are not comparable to our Coldwind City guilds. No wonder even the Peerless Family directly merged into Hecate, while the Century Dynasty is being suppressed everywhere, and it's probably not far from disbanding."

"I really want to join Hecate. I heard that there are a lot of weapons and equipment in Hecate. Becoming a guild elite qualifies you to exchange for level 50 Mithril equipment. It's a pity that Hecate's recruitment requirements are too high, otherwise I could also exchange for two pieces of level 50 Mithril equipment to play with."

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Everyone looked at the Hecate army slowly coming, their eyes filled with longing. After all, only weapons and equipment were their pursuit. They needed to collect a lot of rare materials to trade for a level 50 Mithril equipment from Hecate, while becoming a member of Hecate would be much simpler.

"Guild clearing! All irrelevant people leave here quickly!"

"If you don't leave within five minutes, we will enforce it!"

Just as everyone was discussing, the Hecate army that came over also loudly announced a clearing notice to everyone.

"Why is it like this? It's one thing for Hecate to occupy the high-resource leveling spots before, but this is a leveling area that we finally found. Why do they want to occupy it too?"

"That's right! This is too much!"

"Without this place, how are we going to farm rare materials?"

For a time, the independent players present complained.

"What? Do you have any objections?" A savage man wearing light blue armor walked out from the Hecate crowd, glanced at everyone, and sneered, "It's okay to have objections! Come over and tell me!"

Everyone shut up as soon as they heard this.

The savage man in front of them was very famous in Coldwind City, named Xuan Cang. On the first day he came to Coldwind City, he killed more than 30 experts from the Century Dynasty. Later, in the guild war, he killed hundreds of people in a row, and even killed the then president of the Century Dynasty, Overlord Skyblade.

How dare they go up?

Immediately, everyone silently left, not daring to say anything. The Shura adventurer team also finally killed the Frost Giant Ape, preparing to pick up the materials and leave here.

"Wait a minute! Now this area is under the control of our Hecate. You people leave the materials on the ground! Then you can leave!" Xuan Cang looked at the Shura adventurer team who were about to pick up the materials, and said loudly.

"Xuan Cang, this is the Boss we worked so hard to kill, don't go too far!" At this time, the Berserker leading the Shura adventurer team looked at Xuan Cang and said.

"What? You want to fight?" Xuan Cang sneered, "Okay! All of you come at me together, whoever can kill me, I will immediately take people and leave this area! What? Don't dare?"