"So this is your true trump card?"
Huan Yu stared at the information in her hands, momentarily feeling as though she no longer recognized the Shi Feng standing before her.
First the Teleportation Hall, then the Tower of Secrets, and now a Small Mobile Fortress — hidden secrets revealed one after another, each more staggering than the last.
She couldn't even begin to guess whether Shi Feng was still concealing more jaw-dropping secrets and hidden cards, waiting for his enemies to walk right into his trap so they could all serve as stepping stones for Zero Wing.
Thankfully, the Crimson Emperor Guild wasn't currently working against Zero Wing. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
"Something like that," Shi Feng said with a smile. "Are you two interested now?"
He himself coveted a Small Mobile Fortress, but all he had right now was the blueprint — the crafting materials were far too scarce. Now that things had progressed to this point, it was the perfect opportunity to rope in the two wealthy guilds.
Huan Yu took a deep breath, turned to face Shi Feng, and spoke. "Go on. What exactly do you have in mind?"
Beside her, Bumie Zhanxin nodded as well, wanting to hear what Shi Feng was planning.
"You've already seen the basic information on the Small Mobile Fortress," Shi Feng said with a mild smile. "However, the cost of crafting a Small Mobile Fortress is truly staggering. Even if both of your guilds emptied their coffers entirely, you still wouldn't come close to having enough resources."
Huan Yu and Bumie Zhanxin both silently agreed with this assessment.
Shi Feng hadn't shown them the material requirements for the Small Mobile Fortress, but any fool could understand that building such a terrifying Sky Fortress would demand a price far beyond what any current superpower could even imagine.
"I'm not asking you to fund the Small Mobile Fortress. What I do want is for each of your guilds to contribute two million Magic Crystals and five million Gold Coins as sovereign shares in the Tower of Secrets. How does that sound?" Shi Feng explained. "Once we've fully secured the Tower of Secrets, we can charge other players an additional fee — say, an extra two Magic Crystals or one Gold Coin per visit. At that point, each of your guilds would receive twenty-five percent of the revenue."
"Of course, before that can happen, I'll need the full assistance of both your guilds. Otherwise, pulling this off would be impossible."
The moment those words left his mouth, Huan Yu and Bumie Zhanxin both fell into silence.
What Shi Feng was proposing was simply too staggering. If they went through with it, it would mean an all-out war against every major superpower on the Divine Realm's Eastern Continent — with absolutely no room for compromise.
But if they succeeded, both guilds would stand at the very pinnacle of the Eastern Continent.
This was an all-or-nothing gamble!
Neither silence nor hesitation from the two surprised Shi Feng in the slightest.
He had planned on doing this from the very beginning — he had merely been guiding the two guilds toward it step by step. Without that groundwork, they would never have accepted such a proposal, and Zero Wing could never have truly become a colossus within the Divine Realm.
Only by fully controlling the Tower of Secrets could Zero Wing continuously produce a large number of third-tier Class players. After all, a complete third-tier Legacy could only be used nine times at most — meaning it could only benefit nine people before it was spent, requiring yet another complete third-tier Legacy to replace it.
That was why every faction and every player would need to continually explore the Tower of Secrets.
Securing a temporary advantage and obtaining a few complete third-tier Legacies to produce a handful more third-tier Class players than rival guilds — that alone wouldn't give a guild any qualitative leap in power.
Only by completely monopolizing the Tower of Secrets would they truly possess the solid foundation needed to dominate a territory within the Divine Realm.
Now that he had let the two guilds glimpse a partially completed vision, their confidence in Zero Wing would grow considerably.
After a brief moment of deliberation, both of them contacted their superiors virtually simultaneously, quietly discussing the details of this cooperation and the price Zero Wing was demanding.
Right now, Zero Wing had offered two choices, and both had to be decided immediately.
The first was to abandon any further cooperation — merely gaining a modest advantage within the Tower of Secrets, after which the Tower would have no further connection to their guilds and would become the focal point of competition among other superpowers.
The second was to go all in and fully secure the Tower of Secrets, making enemies of every superpower on the Eastern Continent. If they won, they would become renowned across the continent, with resources and third-tier Classes flowing to them endlessly. If they lost, their guilds' dissolution would be entirely expected.