"This building is enormous!"
"What's going on? Can a basic city even have a structure this tall?"
With the sudden appearance of the Freedom Inn on the main avenue, every player on the street was completely dumbfounded.
The tallest building in Stone Forest City had previously topped out at around a hundred meters at best, but the Freedom Inn not only soared to over a hundred and fifty meters — its footprint was equally staggering, rivaling the size of a large sports stadium. Even among NPC cities, such a structure was exceptionally rare; only a handful of buildings could surpass it.
Simply standing on the main avenue and looking up at the Freedom Inn was enough to leave anyone speechless with awe.
While the players on the street buzzed with speculation about the suddenly materialized Freedom Inn, the Zero Wing members gathered in front of it were equally swept up in excitement.
They had long known that the building Shi Feng ordered them to construct was no ordinary project, but only now, seeing it fully completed, did they truly grasp just how formidable the Freedom Inn was.
Outsiders might not fully appreciate it, but those who had stepped inside knew exactly how powerful it was.
The moment you walked through the doors, it was like entering an entirely different world — the interior space was far larger than what the exterior suggested, and the ambient mana concentration inside was absolutely astonishing.
If the mana density outside was taken as a baseline of one, then inside the Freedom Inn it hovered between two and three. Even the premium Basic Meditation Rooms in the Candlelight Trading Company couldn't come close to that level.
And this was with the building still incomplete…
In the Divine Realm, the difference between a completed and an incomplete structure was enormous. A building's magic arrays functioned as a unified whole — until the final array was inscribed, the entire system remained incomplete. Only when the last array was carved and all arrays connected into one seamless network could the full effect of the arrays be realized.
In other words, the mana density currently inside the Freedom Inn came purely from the rare materials themselves, with zero amplification from any magic arrays…
Beyond that, the Freedom Inn's towering height of over a hundred and fifty meters alone was enough to fill them with anticipation.
Not only was there the exhilarating sensation of gazing down upon all of Stone Forest City from its heights, but the city was surrounded on all sides by the Cold Spring Great Forest — a landscape so beautiful it felt like a paradise on earth. Just the thought of looking out over it from such a vantage point was enough to lift the spirits. They had only stood on the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth floor before, and the view had already put them in an excellent mood. Standing on the topmost level would undoubtedly feel even better.
For the sheer pleasure of improving one's mood alone, they would gladly pay a premium to stay here for a night. And that was before factoring in how the dense mana could significantly boost the effect of accumulating double experience points, which would noticeably speed up leveling afterward. Every player operating in the level-one-hundred neutral zones needed to return to the city to rest eventually, and how much double experience they could stockpile during that rest period had a real impact on their leveling speed.
As Zero Wing's architects buzzed with excitement, Shi Feng gazed at the Freedom Inn before him with a quiet sense of emotion.
In his previous life, he had only visited other superpowers' main cities to experience their Freedom Inns as a guest. Now, Zero Wing had one of its own.
As one of the Divine Realm's premier structures, the Freedom Inn's rarity wasn't just about how few existed — its powerful functions were what drove countless factions into a frenzy.
But before Shi Feng could even tap open the Freedom Inn's system interface to inspect it in detail, a cascade of system notifications chimed in his ears.
System: Large Freedom Inn construction successful. All players receive Level +1 and 8,000 points of Free Lifestyle Proficiency.
System: Large Freedom Inn construction successful. Stone Forest City gains 100,000 Reputation Points. City Prosperity Level +1. Stone Forest City's Reputation growth rate increased by 10%.
System: Congratulations — Stone Forest City has become the first guild city to house a top-tier structure, earning the title City of Freedom. Under this title, more NPCs will be willing to settle here.
System: Stone Forest City has met the requirements for advancement to Intermediate City. Would you like to advance to Intermediate City?