Orc Empire, Ancient Rock City:
As Shifeng appeared before Ancient Rock City's entrance, he noticed that the city had undergone a complete makeover. The city's tall walls were covered in runes. Even though the city's core magic array had yet to be activated, the runes on the walls automatically absorbed Mana from the outside world, forming a magic barrier around the city.
The magic barrier was so powerful that even a full-powered attack from a Tier 5 player might not be able to shatter it. As long as the city's Mana existed, the magic barrier would continue to exist. It would also automatically repair itself. There was no need to expend any Mana.
Tall buildings lined the city's interior, and a faint layer of mist lingered around them. The city's Mana density was almost on par with Ling Yi City's.
Shifeng flew into the air and looked at Ancient Rock City, ecstasy filling his heart. It actually got promoted to a Main City?
At this moment, Ancient Rock City was slightly larger than Zero Wing City. Saint's Hand's Residence had now been transformed into a massive City Lord's Mansion. The mansion itself was over 300 meters tall, and faint divine runes glowed around the mansion. These divine runes were formed by the operation of Mana.
If a player's perception of Mana reached a sufficiently high level, they might even be able to understand the nature of Mana's operating principles. Hence, mastering the operating principles of Mana wouldn't be impossible.
It's no wonder why it's easier for players to get promoted in a city with a secret land as its core. Just these runes alone are enough to benefit Tier 4 players. If we factor in the Evil God's Secret Land's environment, our chances of getting promoted to Tier 5 will be at least 20% higher. Realization dawned on Shifeng as he looked at the majestic City Lord's Mansion.
While Shifeng quietly observed Ancient Rock City, more and more players gathered around the city. They were also dumbfounded by the city's transformation.
Ancient Rock City, which should've been in ruins, was now as large as a kingdom's capital city. Moreover, the city's Mana was visible to the naked eye. In addition, the city's location near the Orc Empire's inner region made it an ideal resting place for raiding the Orc Capital City.
Seeing more and more players gathering around the city, Shifeng entered the city and flew toward the City Lord's Mansion.
Now that the city was no longer protected by the system, Ancient Rock City was in its weakest state. If a power were to attack the city, defending it would be extremely difficult.
Hence, the first thing Shi Feng needed to do was activate the City Lord's Mansion's core magic array and form a city-protecting magic array. With a Main City-level city-protecting magic array, as long as Shi Feng had enough Magic Crystals, even Tier 5 players wouldn't have any problems fending off one or two Tier 5 players.
After the Shifeng entered the City Lord's Mansion, he was shocked by the environment inside.
Not only was the environment within the City Lord's Estate comparable to the Ancient God's Domain, the clarity of the circulation of Elemental Magic even surpassed that of the underground chamber in Ling Yi City …
After all, Ling Yi City's underground training room had only allowed a few dozen players to train inside due to the existence of the Exotic Beast Statue and a lot of Magic Crystals. However, the City Lord's Mansion was just as large as the underground training room. It wouldn't be a problem to accommodate over 10,000 players simultaneously.
As for the City Lord's Mansion's core control room, a pitch-black door was fully open, and the Mana inside the secret land flowed out of the door and into every corner of the City Lord's Mansion. At the same time, the Evil God's Secret Land underwent significant changes.
Previously, the Evil God's Secret Land had prevented outsiders from approaching it. Now, a staircase had appeared. There were a total of 49 steps leading to the secret land. Every step up required players to stabilize the space within the secret land. Players had to grasp the basic usage of Elemental Magic to reach the top floor.
Meanwhile, on the second floor of the control room, there was a staircase leading directly to the Evil God's Secret Land. However, players had to be Level 150, Tier 4, and pay 1,000 Mana Stones to enter the secret land.
In other words, there were now two ways to enter the Evil God's Secret Land.
The first way was free, but players had to grasp the basic usage of Elemental Magic to enter the secret land.
The other option was to pay 1,000 Mana Stones. This was undoubtedly a huge benefit for Tier 4 players who couldn't enter a Level 150 God Mode Secret Land. After all, just staying inside a Level 150 God Mode Secret Land would be of great help to Tier 4 players.
Not to mention, the monsters inside God Mode Secret Lands were filthy rich.
According to the rumors, any random monster in a Level 150-plus God Mode Secret Land would be a Mythic monster. Moreover, the drop-rate and EXP the monsters in the God Mode Secret Land were three times higher than the monsters in the outside world. The God Mode Secret Land was a true treasure trove.
However, while the God Mode Secret Land was a huge treasure trove, the monsters inside possessed combat standards that could rival Refinement Realm experts. The more powerful ones could even rival peak experts. Moreover, these monsters moved in groups. If ordinary Tier 4 players entered the secret land, they wouldn't even know how they died.
Only Tier 5 players could survive in the God Mode Secret Land. However, if they encountered a Tier 5 Legendary monster, they would still lose their lives.
Even the weakest Tier 5 Mythic monster in a God Mode Secret Land possessed combat standards that rivaled peak experts. In addition to their incomparably powerful Basic Attributes, ordinary Tier 5 experts would have a hard time facing them head-on. Normally, a Mythic monster would require three Tier 5 players. Moreover, the MTs, healers, and damage dealers working together to kill a Mythic monster. Normally, a Mythic monster would also require two additional Tier 5 damage dealers. Otherwise, the Mythic monster's absurd HP and extraordinary battle recovery would be more than enough to make Tier 5 experts despair.
Shifeng couldn't help feeling a little impulsive when he saw this.
After all, Level 150-plus God Mode Secret Land had a chance of dropping the Shenjing. The Shenjing was an important item that could upgrade many Fragmented Legendary items. It even had a chance of dropping Tier 5 Skill and Spell Books, which were crucial to improving a Tier 5 player's combat power.
However, Shifeng quickly calmed himself. With his current strength, even if he led Fire Dance and the others into a Level 150-plus God Mode Secret Land, they'd only be able to kill Tier 4 Superior Mythic monsters at most. Killing Tier 5 Legendary monsters was simply out of the question.
Following which, Shifeng spent 300,000 Magic Crystals to activate the control room's core magic array, enveloping Ancient Rock City in a barrier of divine runes. Now, Ancient Rock City's defensive capabilities were many times stronger than before.
Following the activation of the core magic array, Ancient Rock City seemed to awaken from its slumber. All of the Mana within a 20,000-yard radius started converging toward the city, reducing the ambient Mana density. Now, only Tier 3 players with their Mana Bodies could survive. Other Tier 3 players would have a hard time even getting close to Ancient Rock City.
In such a low-Mana environment, even Tier 4 players' Flight Speed would be significantly reduced.
As for attacking Ancient Rock City, even Tier 5 experts' Skills and Spells would suffer a significant decrease in power.
"What a powerful core magic array!" Shifeng, who stood inside the City Lord's Mansion, was stupefied.
Originally, he had intended to adjust Ancient Rock City's core magic array to include the Twelve Magic Arrays of the Demon World, but he no longer dared to do so. After all, the core magic array was composed of countless divine runes. Even the slightest change would cause problems.
With the core magic array activated, Ancient Rock City's defensive standards could most likely rival that of Ling Yi City, which had the protection of a World God.
After all, this was only the core magic array's operating limit. It was only operating normally.
After activating the core magic array, Shifeng immediately had Fire Dance teleport a large number of players to Ancient Rock City.
In less than 20 minutes, Ancient Rock City, which had originally been empty, was now home to over 200,000 Tier 3 players and 30 Tier 4 players. As a precaution, Fire Dance had even mobilized three Crimson Dragon Flying Ships, six Tier 4 Fine-Gold NPC guards, and two Tier 4 Dark-Gold NPC guards.
Now, Ancient Rock City's combat power could most likely rival that of the various superpowers' headquarters.
"Guild Leader, the city's defenses are basically set up. Should we open the city to the public?" Fire Dance asked after reading her subordinate's report.
"Open it," Shifeng said without hesitation. "As for the entrance fee, set it at one Magic Crystal or 40 Silver Coins!"
Only after a Guild City opened to the public could it absorb more NPC soldiers and strengthen Ancient Rock City's defenses. Moreover, just maintaining Ancient Rock City's magic array required at least 100,000 Magic Crystals per day. If Ancient Rock City didn't open to the public to earn Magic Crystals, it would only be a matter of time before the Guild ran out of Magic Crystals.
Meanwhile, after Ancient Rock City opened to the public, many of the powers that had come to investigate the city swarmed into the city. The adventurer teams that had been raiding the Orc Capital City, in particular, entered the city without hesitation, eager to see what was inside. As for the exorbitant entrance fee, they didn't particularly care.
After all, the Orc Capital City was a massive treasure trove. Every player that came to raid the Orc Capital City was a first-rate expert. Even the weakest among them had combat power at the peak of Tier 3. Currently, they could earn a bountiful harvest just by clearing out the monsters in the city's outer and inner regions. If they were lucky, they could even obtain a piece of Level 150 Epic Equipment. Meanwhile, Ancient Rock City was the closest Guild City to the Orc Capital City.
In less than two hours, more than 600,000 players had flooded into Ancient Rock City, and every one of them was a Tier 3 expert.
Every player that entered Ancient Rock City was shocked by the city's grandeur and superior environment. Not only did the city's players cleanse their bodies rapidly, but it also allowed them to accumulate the Double EXP buff, which increased their EXP bar by 30% every 24 hours.
For Tier 3 players, even if they spent 24 hours grinding in the fields, they wouldn't necessarily gain 30% of their EXP bar.
This was especially true for Level 140 players. If they could gain 20% of their EXP bar in a single day, they'd be considered ferocious levelers.
Meanwhile, not only did resting on Ancient Rock City's streets not hinder their leveling, but they could also increase their leveling speed. Why wouldn't these experts be excited? In the past, they had to stay in hotels in Ancient Rock City to gain such EXP buffs. Now, however, the city was free. If they stayed in hotels now, the EXP buffs would be even more frightening.
For a time, news of Ancient Rock City spread throughout the eastern continent. The various superpowers, which had originally planned to take action against the city, had no choice but to give up and wait for the Outerworld forces.
However, while the Tier 3 experts in Ancient Rock City were shocked by the city's environment, the Shifeng led Beast Emperor to the Starmoon Kingdom's War God's Temple.
Previously, as the Shifeng couldn't leave Ancient Rock City's vicinity, they had no choice but to imprison Beast Emperor.
Now that they had dealt with Ancient Rock City, they naturally couldn't let Beast Emperor off the hook. The War God's Temple, in particular, hated the Evil God's Temple to the core. The War God's Temple had placed an astronomical bounty on Beast Emperor, an Advanced Apostle of the Evil God's Temple.
As soon as the Shifeng led Beast Emperor into the War God's Temple's main hall, a Level 180 senior administrator approached them.
"Sir, you must be here to claim your bounty, right? Please follow me. The Temple Master is currently in the War God's Hall," the Level 180, Tier 3 senior administrator said respectfully as he looked at the Shifeng.
"Alright! Lead the way! "the Shifeng said, nodding.
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