After paying 13,500 gold in one go, the beautiful NPC handed over a land deed to
With this deed, Stone Forest Town would become Shi Feng's personal property from now on. He could build whatever he wanted within the boundaries of Stone Forest Town without any restrictions.
"Now I've finally got some capital." Shi Feng looked at the deed to Stone Forest Town, his heart bursting with joy.
There were countless guilds in the Divine Realm. To gain a foothold, a guild needed its own guild base, and for a guild to flourish, it needed its own guild town.
A guild was a massive machine, and keeping it running required enormous funds.
In the early stages, trading posts were quite profitable, but compared to a guild town, they were a drop in the ocean. The goods bought and sold in trading posts were all transacted in gold coins, but as players leveled up, the channels for earning gold coins grew more numerous and easier, and their value steadily declined.
Guild towns were different.
Since you could build all sorts of buildings freely within a town, commercial models became far more diverse. Unlike NPC towns, which only accepted gold coins as currency, guild towns could also accept Credit Points, and there was more entertainment to offer.
In the Divine Realm, NPC cities had numerous restrictions. For instance, it was extremely difficult for players to purchase their own houses and shops. But in a guild town, there was no need for such hassle — all you needed was money.
Not to mention that guild towns were generally located in inconvenient areas, which could save players time on rest and recovery.
A town like Stone Forest Town, with such an excellent geographical position, could easily draw massive numbers of players. Its daily foot traffic would probably surpass that of
The only downside was that developing the town still required constructing a large number of buildings. Restaurants, bars, the Auction House, the Adventurer's Guild, shops, clubs, inns — and so on. All of these cost a considerable sum.
"Still short on money." Shi Feng sighed at the thought.
The major guilds in Star Moon City all assumed that whoever secured Stone Forest Town could easily make a fortune. But even if those guilds did manage to obtain Stone Forest Town, they would probably just stare at it helplessly.
Setting aside the various lifestyle buildings the town needed, just the basic construction fees and registration costs would be enough to make even a top-tier guild cough up blood three times over, let alone getting the town up and running.
Even with
Time passed.
Two days went by in the blink of an eye.
Two days meant nothing to players in the real world. But for the players of the Star Moon Kingdom, they were frantically grinding levels, racing to reach level 30 so they could head to the Stone Fang Mountains to farm Magic Essences.
In just two short days, the number of players flooding into the Stone Fang Mountains continued to grow. The major guilds had all gone quiet, as though the previous battle for supremacy had never happened, each busy minding their own affairs.
During this period, Shi Feng had also thrown himself wholeheartedly into Stone Forest Town. He completed the entire preliminary layout and planning for the town. Normally, this sort of task could have been delegated to Shuise Qiangwei, but for the sake of certainty, Shi Feng chose to handle it himself. He had plenty of experience with town planning from before and was well-versed in arranging building layouts within a town. Moreover, he had his own ideas about the guild's future direction, so it was best for him to do it all personally.
Meanwhile, Shuise Qiangwei had joined Huo Wu in running the hundred-player team dungeon, the Frost Cage.
As a hundred-player team dungeon, the Frost Cage was on a completely different level from ordinary team dungeons. The bosses inside were all Grand Leader-tier. The worst drops were 30-level Gold-grade equipment, and quite a few Dark Gold items could be obtained as well. For current players, these were the absolute best equipment available — bar none.