"Sister Qianyu, what happened?" Qing Huang looked at Feng Qianyu, whose expression had turned strange, and asked in confusion.
"I just received news. Zero Wing Guild now has a three-star guild base," Feng Qianyu said with a hint of envy. "A three-star base! Now Zero Wing Guild is indisputably the number one guild in the Star Moon Kingdom."
Qing Huang's expression froze for a moment, then she caught herself and blurted out, "How is that possible! Didn't they say you need to claim the First Clear of a level-fifty Hell Difficulty large team Dungeon to obtain a Guild Promotion Token?"
A three-star guild seemed only one star above a two-star guild, but the difference between them was fundamental — just like shops promoting from two-star to three-star. Besides having more premium spaces, three-star shops also offered perks like meditation rooms, which were extremely beneficial for developing secondary professions. Guilds worked the same way — the various benefits would see a fundamental upgrade, and guilds could construct buildings that two-star guilds didn't have.
The two most representative buildings were as follows.
The first was the Guild Employment Hall.
Previously, the quest area in the Guild Hall was where NPCs from the local city came to post tasks, and guild players could freely accept them.
Once a guild had an Employment Hall, however, all future guild tasks would be placed there. Moreover, the tasks inside were no longer limited to the local city — they would also involve NPCs from other cities, greatly increasing the number of high-level tasks available.
But these weren't even the most important part.
Once a guild had the Employment Hall, guild quests would also be unlocked, opening up large-scale guild tasks — crusades against magical beasts, assisting the Star Moon Kingdom in battles against neighboring kingdoms or alien races, and so on. The experience and gold earned from these were enormous, and players could also obtain rare items and weapon equipment.
The second building was the Guild Training Room.
This training room was different from the PvP arena and the Challenge Trial Tower in the God-Demon Arena, where players had to figure out combat techniques on their own. The training room allowed players to receive systematic basic combat guidance from NPCs, enabling newly joined guild members to master fundamental combat techniques and skill usage in a short time, quickly turning them into elites…
It should be noted that even Zero Wing Guild, which had followed an elite-focused path, currently had only around a hundred thousand elites. More than half of the guild members hadn't reached elite level. But with the training room, those remaining members would quickly be converted into elites, and before long, Zero Wing's elite count would surpass two hundred thousand.
That many elite players — even first-rate guilds couldn't match that.
And this was only without Zero Wing expanding its recruitment. If they significantly increased their membership, the result would be beyond imagination.
With these two buildings in hand, it wasn't hard to imagine how terrifying Zero Wing's future growth speed would be.
But compared to Feng Qianyu's envy, the major guilds in the Star Moon Kingdom and neighboring kingdoms were practically dying of anxiety.
Previously, although Zero Wing was called the number one guild in the Star Moon Kingdom, it was merely a title. Those major guilds were more wary of first-rate guilds, because with Zero Wing's current elite count and membership, they couldn't possibly occupy much territory in the Star Moon Kingdom. But now that was no longer the case — with a three-star guild base, both Zero Wing's membership and elite count would multiply, giving them surplus manpower to occupy other NPC cities and new towns, becoming a true first-rate guild.
"Damn it, how could this happen!"
"Why did Zero Wing suddenly become a three-star guild?"
…
Every major guild in the entire Star Moon Kingdom was at their wit's end.
They had actually been glad when Zero Wing defeated the Black Water Guild — after all, Black Water was severely weakened and had no capacity to bolster their influence and control over the major cities. And while Zero Wing was undeniably strong, they didn't have enough manpower to dominate and manage other NPC cities, which left openings for everyone else.
Since the battle between Black Water and Zero Wing, every corner of the Star Moon Kingdom had descended into a chaotic free-for-all, with each major guild scrambling to seize NPC cities and carve out their own territories.