Strongholds in the early stages were basically planned by the System. Generally, NPCs and monsters wouldn't interfere.
If the System marked out a piece of land in the Plaguelands as a Stronghold, no matter how evil the NPCs and monsters in the Plaguelands were, they wouldn't attack the Stronghold. Correspondingly, don't expect anyone from the Alliance or the Horde to help you defend the Stronghold.
However, things were different for Lu Li. He had obtained the approval of an NPC through a storyline quest.
In other words, he had helped the NPC at a critical moment and established an equal offensive and defensive alliance with the NPC.
Once the Plaguelands had a Stronghold, once they obtained the right to attack it, Tirion Fordring would send out the defenders of Tyr's Hand to help. Of course, for the balance of the game, these people couldn't be too strong and their numbers couldn't be too large.
In fact, many maps had similar opportunities. It was just that no one would be able to find them and grasp them.
The System prompted Lu Li to complete the two quests of recovering Tyr's Hand and Tirion Fordring's friendship. The others who recovered Tyr's Hand also received a system prompt for completing the quest, which would reward them with a lot of Reputation.
As for the Tirion Fordring's friendship quest, in addition to Reputation, Lu Li also received a Skill Point as a reward.
This was actually the real reward for Lu Li!
After all, he was confident that he could defend the Stronghold, but the Skill Point was something that he couldn't do anything about.
For the next few days, Lu Li basically spent all of his time in Blackwing's Nest.
In this week's Instance Dungeon, The Capital of Glory took down the little Red Dragon. However, Ruling Sword had the experience of doing it once, so they also took down the little Red Dragon on the same day. After that, other clubs also took down the little Red Dragon.
Blackwing's Nest, which had caused so many headaches for the major clubs, gradually became history.
However, for ordinary guilds, the little Red Dragon was still an insurmountable mountain.
Only when the game officials weakened the little Red Dragon in the new patch could Blackwing's Nest become an equipment warehouse for the major clubs. Only then would it be possible for individual players to get their hands on the little Red Dragon.
A game could be difficult, but it couldn't be without a place for unaffiliated players to survive. Otherwise, no one would play the game. In the past, many games would deliberately advertise themselves as a paradise for unaffiliated players. Corresponding to that, the lifespan of such games was relatively short.
The next instance dungeon was Zul 'Gurub.
Currently, the game developers had only released the historical background of this Dungeon. For the time being, there was no way to enter this Dungeon. The difficulty of this Dungeon was actually not low. In the earliest versions, it could compete with Blackwing's Nest. However, the items dropped were extremely trash, only comparable to the standards of the Molten Core.
Moreover, it was a 20-man Instance Dungeon, so it did not require 40 players to enter.
Similarly, even if they obtained the First Clear, there would only be 20 rewards. Therefore, Lu Li decided to wait for a while before considering whether or not to invest in this dungeon.
Apart from the Donghua Cup, he had more energy on the newly opened fortress map.
In the new week, Strongholds were unlocked on two maps.
One was the Hillsbrad Hills of the Eastern Kingdom, and the other was the Stonetalon Mountains of Kalimdor.
In fact, Lu Li wanted to take both of these places. The former was the Hillsbrad Hills, where Ravenholdt Manor was located. It was of great significance to him. In the future, there might be a day when he would have the opportunity to participate in the storyline quests of Ravenholdt Manor.
The latter was the Stonetalon Mountains, which was connected to Grey Valley.
Grey Valley was Ruling Sword's base camp. If they wanted to expand, taking down the Stonetalon Mountains was only a matter of time.
However, Lu Li also knew that this idea was pure nonsense. Only two new maps had been opened, but there were dozens of clubs that wanted to occupy the Strongholds. His Ruling Sword had two Strongholds, so they had already become the target of public criticism.
Sure enough, the money that Lu Li offered didn't even get the right to attack.
These people were all rich. In the beginning, the Strongholds only required 20,000 gold to bid for, but now, it was 50,000 gold.
Perhaps they saw the huge money-making potential of Ruling Sword's two Strongholds. In the past two to three weeks, Ruling Sword had relied on these two Strongholds to not only earn back their initial capital from the auction, but also solve their financial crisis.
Before, Lu Li had looked at the financial statements that Genhao San had provided. He didn't understand the specific details, but even if he was stupid, he knew that his guild now had tens of millions of dollars worth of assets in their accounts.
Most of it was the profits of the Strongholds, and it had only been three weeks.
Of course, a lot of this was the money that was earned from selling Stronghold properties. In the future, it would be difficult for them to have this much income.
Even so, the wealth of the Strongholds still attracted the attention of many large clubs. Even if the clubs themselves were clear-headed, they couldn't stop the capital behind the clubs from going crazy like sharks that smelled blood.
50,000 gold, according to the current gold price, was already a huge amount of money in the real world, just for a spot to attack a Stronghold.
The final winner of the Hillsbrad Foothills was Grand Hegemony.
This club that could only be ranked 70th or 80th had now really risen. When Lu Li took the first First Clear for the Spider Lair, it was with a few members of their club.
They received a large amount of capital and began to walk on the road to success.
Grand Hegemony was different from the average club. Most clubs that received a large amount of capital would desperately spend money to poach professional players.
Then, they would use these players to win a few matches, hoping to attract a large number of players to join them. This way, the club's ranking would skyrocket. However, the problem was that the average professional players couldn't win at all, and the value of these players was terrifying.
For example, Ruling Sword's Fei Houzi didn't have a very good record, but he was currently worth 5 million dollars.
The smart thing about Grand Hegemony was that apart from the star player Dancing Star Dream, they only poached second and third-rate players. Many of them weren't even qualified to participate in the competition, so they had a lot of young players.
The battle for a Stronghold was different from a competition. The combat strength of 80 players had to be considered comprehensively, and the combat strength of the 80 players from Grand Hegemony was very terrifying. They were the first to take down a Stronghold and occupy the Hillsbrad Foothills.
This time, the Stonetalon Mountains was won by Peerless City. After all, they had the combined strength of the two top clubs, Drizzle Court and Peerless City.
Ever since the Soul Eater incident, Peerless City had been criticized by the outside world. Now that they had taken down the Stonetalon Mountains, they had fiercely fought back against those critics.
Next up was the bidding and competition for the Strongholds that already had owners.
Ruling Sword had two Strongholds, so they once again became the hot topic. The prices were even higher than the Strongholds in the new map.
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