Chapter 1540: Opening of the Evil God Temple

"Twenty percent of the profits?" Yuan Tiexin's brows knitted tightly. "Your price is far too high. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to conquer a beastman city? That's not something you can accomplish by simply throwing some mercenaries at it."

Within the territory of the Beastman Empire, the defenses of any single beastman city would be enough to make a top-tier guild collapse.

Setting aside the city's defensive magic arrays, the beastmen garrisoned there alone numbered over a million, not to mention the various defensive structures. Although only three Legendary beastmen guarded the city, there were thousands of High Lord-class commanders within.

The manpower and resources required for such an endeavor were far beyond what any top-tier guild could imagine.

"My price isn't high, and I believe our Zero Wing Guild is worth every bit of it. If all you need is to hire NPC mercenaries, then at your price, I can send ten thousand NPC mercenaries to assist. However, our guild won't be sending a single one of our own players," Shi Feng explained.

Tianji Pavilion's offer would make any ordinary top-tier guild drool with envy.

Ten Black Cards could allow more members of a guild to access the simulation training system, which was remarkably effective for gaining combat experience against expert players. Otherwise, Jian Ying and the others wouldn't have so quickly stepped into the realm of Subtle Mastery.

As for the prime land plots in major cities of the Empire of Dawn, those couldn't be purchased even with mountains of gold, let alone two large prime land plots. Simply opening shops on them would bring the guild a substantial stream of continuous income.

Though it was tempting, for the current Zero Wing Guild, the returns simply didn't match the expenditure.

He wasn't very familiar with conquering cities in the Beastman Empire, but he knew quite a lot about capturing cities belonging to other races.

In the Divine Realm, conquering another race's city was essentially a prolonged war of attrition. One could never tell how many people would need to be thrown in. Destroying the city's magic array was the worst part—at the current player level, it would take several days of sustained effort to drain the energy of a city's defensive magic array, unless one could deliver Fifth Order damage, which would significantly deplete its reserves.

Zero Wing Guild had finally entered a period of stable development, so naturally it couldn't recklessly squander a massive amount of combat strength just to help Tianji Pavilion.

"You'll only be sending NPC mercenaries?" Yuan Tiexin considered for a moment. Their primary objective was indeed the NPC mercenaries—only with sufficient mercenaries could they hold down the Legendary beastmen and the numerous High Lord-class commanders inside the city. As for Zero Wing Guild's combat strength, that had never factored into their plans from the start. "Fine, but ten thousand mercenaries is too few. At least fifteen thousand."

"That's no problem." Shi Feng nodded.

He currently possessed fifty thousand contribution points. Hiring fifteen thousand mercenaries for a single operation would cost forty-five thousand points.

Guild contribution points didn't have much use for the current Zero Wing Guild yet. After all, developing Zero Wing City alone required considerable investment. Capturing another small town or city on top of that would leave them without enough funds to develop both simultaneously.

For now, the most important objective was to figure out how to obtain large quantities of gold coins and magic crystals.

Subsequently, the two sides signed a contract, and Yuan Tiexin handed the ten Black Cards directly to Shi Feng. As for the two prime land plots in the Empire of Dawn, Shi Feng chose Moon Bay City, a coastal city in the Empire of Dawn.

Although the Empire of Dawn had many coastal areas, there were only four coastal cities in total, and Moon Bay City was the closest to Looking Sea Town. That way, they could also use the prime land plot in Moon Bay City as a temporary warehouse.

"This is the intelligence I mentioned earlier. You should make your preparations as soon as possible. When the time comes, not only will several major kingdoms be affected, but even the Black Dragon Empire will likely suffer severe damage. Originally, I had also intended to have Ziqiong spar with your guild's experts, but since the terms of our deal have changed, we need to head back and make the corresponding arrangements." Yuan Tiexin took out a letter and handed it to Shi Feng, then sighed and departed with Ziqiong.

"Affecting several major kingdoms?" Shi Feng tore open the envelope in surprise, pulled out the letter inside, and read through it. He couldn't help but sneer. "This Nine Dragons Emperor truly has some nerve. He's not even afraid of burying himself!"

The contents of the letter were straightforward: the Nine Dragons Emperor had assisted the Beast King in conducting a sacrificial ritual within the Black Dragon Empire and had already opened the Evil God Temple. This would be nothing short of a catastrophe for the vast majority of players.