"It's finally done."
Shifeng could not help his excitement as he read the system notification.
Unlike towns and cities in God's Domain, Guild Towns and Player Towns relied on attracting players to earn money through the town's Shops. To a small Guild, this amount of money might be enough, but to a large Guild with hundreds of thousands of members, it was a drop in the bucket. Not to mention, Guild Towns and Player Towns had to pay exorbitant system management fees every month.
A Basic Town required 5,000 Gold per month.
An Intermediate Town required 15,000 Gold per month.
An Advanced Town required 50,000 Gold per month.
If a Guild failed to pay these fees, the system would freeze the town's management rights. If a Guild failed to pay these fees within three months, it would lose its management rights. In the end, the system would host an auction for the town.
Moreover, aside from the monthly management fee, a town also had to pay the town's NPCs.
Hence, the various large Guilds had to think long and hard before establishing a town. Even if a Guild had sufficient funds, they would not establish too many towns.
As for the cost of a Guild City, it was even more expensive. Just the monthly system management fee alone was enough to drive an ordinary Guild insane. After all, a Basic City had to pay 200,000 Gold to the system every month. Ordinary large Guilds wouldn't be able to collect that much Gold even if they worked for two or three months.
Unless a Guild decided to stop developing and focus on investing all the Coins it earned into a City City.
However, compared to a town's income, a Guild City had many more sources of income. Aside from collecting Coins from the Shops inside the city, a Guild City could also collect entrance fees.
As long as a Guild City could attract enough players, its income would be much higher than the Shops inside the city. Hence, the location of a Guild City was extremely important. A single mistake could result in a loss. Instead of strengthening the Guild, the Guild would become a burden.
This was why a Guild could not establish itself in God's Domain if it did not have a Guild City.
Currently, God's Domain did not have a clear standard to judge a Guild's strength. Instead, the standard was based on a Guild's past achievements and capital in virtual reality games. Meanwhile, as God's Domain became more popular, more corporations and corporations invested in the game every day. As a result, the number of Guilds established in God's Domain was innumerable.
With so many Guilds in the game, using the previous standard would not work. Hence, the standard had changed accordingly.
In God's Domain, a Guild could only be considered a first-rate Guild if it possessed a Guild City. After all, a Guild City was not only proof of a Guild's financial strength, but it was also proof of a Guild's strength.
Shifeng then notified A Melancholy Smile and told him to start gathering the necessary materials for the Magic Workshop. As for A Melancholy Smile, he headed to Witch's Hill.
"Guild Leader, many of the materials you need are urgently needed by the various large Guilds. Moreover, the cost is extremely high. Some of the materials can only be obtained from special 100-man Hell Mode Dungeons. I'm afraid it will take a long time to collect all of them." A Melancholy Smile was speechless when he saw the list of materials sent by the Shifeng. "Moreover, I'm afraid it'll be very difficult to gather all of the Mana Ores in there."
There were 500 pieces of Crimson Fire Rock, 500 pieces of Frost Stone, 500 pieces of Purple Thunder Wood, 5,000 pieces of Mana Ore, and 100 Advanced Magic Cores. Every one of these materials was extremely rare at this stage of the game.
Among them, Mana Ore was a special ore that could only be mined with a very small chance of success. It could be used in various fields, such as construction, furniture, special items, forging, engineering, alchemy, and more. Although Ling Yi's Guild was large and frequently purchased these materials from the market, they only had around 1,300 pieces of Mana Ore on hand right now.
In addition, there were also the Advanced Magic Cores, which could only be obtained from the Final Bosses of 100-man Hell Mode Team Dungeons. Although the Guild had raided quite a few Hell Mode Team Dungeons, they had only collected a dozen or so Advanced Magic Cores.
With the cost of these materials, they could purchase the golden Lands of countless NPC cities …
"Are there many Guilds collecting Mana Ore right now?" Shifeng asked curiously. "If the Starmoon Kingdom isn't easy to find, you can head to the Black Dragon Empire or other kingdoms."
Although Mana Ore was very rare, it wasn't a resource that Guilds monopolized. Many players would mine in the fields. With a large number of players working together, it wouldn't be difficult to collect 1,000 Mana Ore. Out of all the materials listed, Mana Ore should be the easiest to obtain.
Meanwhile, among the materials listed, A Melancholy Smile was still missing the Seven Luminaries Crystal. Otherwise, he would've crushed her.
This was no longer about building a house. Rather, they were basically constructing a display made of gold.
"Guild Leader, it really is difficult to obtain. Even if we head to other kingdoms and empires, the situation will be the same. Currently, the various major powers have long since bought up all the Mana Ore on the market. Whenever one appears, it'll be fought over …" A Melancholy Smile said, smiling bitterly.
"What's going on?" Shifeng asked curiously.
As far as he could remember, while Mana Ore was indeed very rare, it definitely wasn't at the point where people would fight over it. After all, a piece of Mana Ore wasn't cheap. On the market, it sold for 30 to 40 Silver.
"Due to the Orc Empire's sudden rise, it has already affected several kingdoms and two empires. These kingdoms and empires have already dispatched their armies to resist the Orc Empire. Hence, an exchange system has been set up on the frontlines. There are many items available for exchange, including Common Mounts and even Bronze Mounts that the various large Guilds need right now.
"If you wish to purchase these Mounts, you'll need to complete various large-scale quests to earn Contribution Points. However, these large-scale quests are extremely difficult. They either require you to rescue or capture a town. Meanwhile, the Orcs seem to be possessed. Not only are there many of them, but their combat standards are also frighteningly high. Whenever an Orc appears, a fog will envelop the area, causing players' Mana to enter a state of chaos, greatly reducing their combat power. Only the consumable tool, Mana Amulets, made from Mana Ore, can stabilize one's Mana.
"In addition, due to the fog's appearance, many ancient ruins have opened up. The monsters in these ancient ruins have very high drop-rates. Rumor has it that many ancient war weapons have been left behind in these ruins.
"Hence, the various kingdoms and empires' major powers have been frantically collecting Mana Ore to raid these ancient ruins and obtain Mounts for their Guild members as soon as possible. As a result, the Mana Ore on the market has been sold out, and its price has increased by several times …"
Shifeng was even more surprised when he heard A Melancholy Smile's explanation.
Although he had long since known that the Orc Empire's rise would be influential, he had never imagined that it would develop to such an extent.
"I understand. In any case, just focus on collecting these materials for now. I'll think of a way to deal with the Mana Ore," Shifeng said after giving the matter some thought.
The Magic Workshop was also very important to the Ling YI Society. The sooner they obtained a Magic Workshop, the sooner they could improve the Guild's overall strength by a large margin. Moreover, the Guild members' survivability would also be better guaranteed.
The Ling YI Society's current combat power was entirely dependent on its peak experts and war weapons.
Without these, the Ling YI Society's overall strength would be far inferior to that of first-rate Guilds, not to mention super-first-rate Guilds and Super Guilds.
If they could construct a Magic Workshop, not only would they be able to close this gap, but they could also use this opportunity to attract more powerful players to join the Ling Yi Society.
Hence, it was very important to collect the materials as soon as possible.
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