The 180-level third-tier male steward, Viko, stared at the certification token in
"That's correct. This is indeed a guild certification token from the War God Temple." Viko nodded, his gaze toward Shi Feng becoming considerably more respectful as he spoke in measured tones. "Esteemed Guild Master, your certification token is valid. However, at the level of an ordinary guild, I'm afraid you are not yet qualified to settle in the Royal Capital of our
"So we really can't settle in the capital?" Shi Feng wasn't particularly surprised by Viko's refusal. "In that case,
Even though the guild had been recognized by the War God Temple, that was all it was — recognition. He had hoped that the down-on-its-luck Twin Towers Kingdom might offer a slim chance, given that it was currently being ravaged by
Then again, it made sense when he thought about it. In his previous life, the Spacetime Tower and the Secret Accord Tower of the Twin Towers Kingdom had shone across the entire Divine Realm, and the kingdom's reserves were far beyond what any other kingdom could compare to. Even though it seemed diminished now, after the great system upgrade, NPCs from the Twin Towers Kingdom would flood back in enormous numbers. Once that happened, the tide would turn sooner or later — which was exactly why he had rushed over to settle in early.
"That won't be a problem. Please follow me; I'll process the paperwork right away." Viko then led Shi Feng up to the office hall on the third floor.
Along the way, Shi Feng could clearly sense that the number of NPCs in the hall had increased considerably.
Third-tier
It was easy to predict that once the bulk of the NPCs returned, the entire Twin Towers Kingdom would see a massive surge in third-tier NPCs. With the combat strength these NPCs possessed, retaking the Twin Towers Kingdom and driving the Abyss monsters back into the Abyss was not at all an impossible task.
The city he had chosen, Tianquan City, was the largest NPC city closest to the Secret Accord Tower.
Although Tianquan City currently didn't even rank among the top fifteen cities in the Twin Towers Kingdom, after the great system upgrade, the Secret Accord Tower had become a place that surpassed even the Spacetime Tower.
That was because the Secret Accord Tower was a holy land for leveling up and obtaining guild resources.
Before the Divine Realm's great system upgrade, leveling up was something perfectly routine for players. But after the upgrade, leveling up had become a death march.
Without extraordinary strength, the moment a player stepped outside a major NPC city, they had to be prepared to fight for their lives. Whether dealing with NPCs or wild monsters, both now possessed their own minds and intelligence. They would no longer meekly stand around to be farmed by players like fools.
When it came to matters of life and death, NPCs and monsters would fight with everything they had.
So venturing into the wild to grind monsters was no longer a simple matter of fighting boring mobs for experience points. It was a life-or-death battle. Unless there was a significant gap in strength between the two sides, every single encounter was exhausting, and players wouldn't even dare to take on monsters that were many levels above them.
Of course, as the difficulty of killing monsters soared, the experience points gained from each kill were also incomparable to before — each monster yielded more than ten times the experience it once had. It was just that the act of leveling up had become far more grueling and demanding.
But inside the Secret Accord Tower, things were different.
Beneath the Secret Accord Tower lay countless monsters sealed away in an alternate dimension. These monsters had long since gone berserk, possessing no thought or intelligence — only the drive to kill.
The experience points from these monsters were the same as those outside. The only difference was that entering required payment of magic crystals. As for these monsters, there was no need to expect coin drops or magic crystal drops — even the value of their material drops was negligible.
However, the Secret Accord Tower had one crucial advantage.
That alternate dimension concealed the remnants of an ancient civilization. The deeper one went, the better the ancient relics one could obtain — weapon and equipment blueprints, master-tier alchemy recipes, and even complete third-tier Class inheritances from the ancient civilization.
That's right!
A complete third-tier Class inheritance was entirely different from the scattered third-tier inheritance fragments found in the outside world. Obtaining a complete inheritance could significantly reduce the difficulty of advancing to a third-tier Class, allowing a guild to amass a large number of third-tier experts. Any guild that acquired one would treat it as a treasured guardian artifact — a hundred times more precious than even fragments of Legendary equipment.
But these complete third-tier inheritances could only be found below the eighteenth subterranean level — an area that had only been opened after the Divine Realm's great system upgrade. In the early days, the Secret Accord Tower had simply been a place for players to level up before reaching level one hundred. After level one hundred, it was no longer suitable for players to enter.
But after the great system upgrade, the Secret Accord Tower had become something else entirely.
Because a complete third-tier Class inheritance could cause a guild's strength to explode.
That was why every major power on the Divine Realm's
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