The plaza was as large as two or three stadiums put together, and the teleportation hall — four or five stories tall — stood at the center of it all like the heart of this world, with endless streams of mana continuously converging upon it.
The teleportation hall's magic array, which had been completely suppressed before, was now free of the magic barrier's restrictions. In an instant, the mana throughout Silver Wing City surged and rippled, subtly drifting toward the teleportation hall.
This commotion left every player on the main street stunned.
"How does Silver Wing City have a teleportation hall?"
"Holy crap! We've been played! We've been played big time! I can't believe Zero Wing still had this up its sleeve!"
"Incredible! That's absolutely incredible! So this was Zero Wing's real trump card all along?"
"Forget it — I'm heading to Silver Wing City to rent one of those shops right now! I don't care how much it costs!"
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The numerous players on the street who had been planning to leave Silver Wing City and seek their fortunes elsewhere were now in a panic. Those with quick reactions bolted straight for Silver Wing City's Lord's Mansion, moving as fast as the wind.
"Hurry!"
"Contact the guild master right now! We can't let the guild master rent a place in some other guild city!"
"We've been fooled by Zero Wing!"
Members of the various adventurer teams frantically contacted their respective team leaders, terrified that even a moment's delay would ruin their chance at a lifetime of happiness.
The representatives of the major factions who had been watching with schadenfreude could hardly believe their eyes.
A teleportation hall!
Every player who had entered the Divine Realm was intimately familiar with this. They all understood just how terrifying it was for a guild city to possess a teleportation hall.
It dwarfed every other high-end building a guild city could boast — powerful Tier 4 NPC guardians included — by an immeasurable margin.
All it took was one guild town acquiring a teleportation hall for it to become connected to countless NPC cities across the Divine Realm. The impact of this on a guild city was monumental — it was like a Stone Age human instantly transforming into a modern one, elevating an entire guild town by several tiers in a single stroke.
The major superpowers who had received the news were likewise dumbstruck.
None of them had ever imagined that Zero Wing was hiding a card this powerful.
Even Zero Wing's own members within Silver Wing City were overcome with shock and elation.
"The guild master is insane! Those superpowers must be completely flabbergasted!"
"With a teleportation hall, our Silver Wing City is bound to become the center of the surrounding kingdoms — maybe even the Black Dragon Empire! Once that happens, no matter how powerful the superpowers are, they won't be able to stop the flood of players streaming into Silver Wing City. It'll become the number one city in the surrounding kingdoms for sure!"
They had originally braced themselves for a bloody war against the major superpowers, but Shi Feng had delivered a surprise beyond anyone's expectations.
After all, Silver Wing City was located deep in neutral territory. Adventurer teams and solo players who had long suffered through the tedious trek to level up could now use the teleportation hall to arrive in the neutral maps in the blink of an eye.
Even if the teleportation fees were modest, for many skilled players, the cost was trivial compared to the time saved by not having to run there on foot.
It was easy to imagine that players from the surrounding kingdoms and empires would flood into Silver Wing City. The city's player population could easily exceed ten million — perhaps even twenty million wasn't out of the question.
The major superpowers' attempts to suppress Zero Wing's economy had become nothing but a joke.
The only lingering concern was the covert operations of the superpowers, but as long as Zero Wing had Silver Wing City, economic worries were a thing of the past. In the future, they would simply need to keep a lower profile — venture out to distant neutral maps without wearing guild emblems to level up.
"Guild master, just now the number of players coming to the Lord's Mansion to rent shops exceeded two thousand. At this rate, all of the shops in Silver Wing City will be fully rented out within half a day," Liang Jing said, her voice brimming with excitement as she reviewed the latest data.
The NPC shops that had been vacated before were now in high demand, with far more players vying for them than there had been NPC merchants — several times over, even ten times more.
The revenue from Silver Wing City alone now exceeded the combined income of their three previous guild cities.
"Mm. However, we'll need to adjust the rental terms going forward. Not only will shops require gold coins, but renting a shop in the city center will also require an additional fee in magic crystals — one thousand magic crystals per week for the central district, three hundred per week for the outer district." Shi Feng nodded, entirely unsurprised. "Also, have the guild members gradually make their way to Tianquan City."
In his previous life, any guild that had been recognized by the War God Temple was virtually impossible to suppress economically — unless you could destroy the guild town entirely.
That was precisely why the major factions had fought so desperately for those seats, with even a single allied-player slot sparking fierce competition.
Now that Zero Wing had been recognized by the War God Temple immediately following the system's major upgrade, it was the greatest stroke of luck imaginable. From the moment they had become an official guild, Zero Wing was already operating on an entirely different plane from the superpowers.
Perhaps Zero Wing's current strength and resources couldn't compare to those superpowers, but in terms of quality, the gap was as vast as that between clouds and mud.
There was only one thing Zero Wing needed to do now.
Complete the Seal of the Tower of Secrets before the NPC factions launched their great invasion, rapidly elevate the guild's strength, and watch as the great powers of the Divine Realm fell one after another — then move in to claim their territories.