A look of surprise appeared on the Half-elf administratorâs face when she saw the ancient scroll in Shi Fengâs hands. However, she quickly reverted to wearing her cordial smile, an additional hint of respect appearing in her eyes.
âPlease wait a moment, Sir. As you are using a Bronze Cross-Border Guild Promotion Order instead of the standard promotion procedure, I will need to have the Associationâs elders verify your Promotion Order before I can process the promotion for you,â the administrator explained as she took the ancient scroll from Shi Feng.
âNo problem.â Shi Feng nodded, unsurprised by this situation.
The promotion of a Cross-Border Guild was different from the promotion of standard Guilds. It represented the recognition of all Adventurerâs Associations in Godâs Domain. At the same time, it was also a recognition of status in the Greater Godâs Domain.
Normally, a Basic Cross-Border Guild seeking promotion would need to fulfill two conditions. Firstly, the Guild would need to accumulate one million Godâs Domain Popularity Points. Secondly, the Guild would need at least one hundred members to become certified Advanced Adventurers, which also meant they needed to reach the World Towerâs second-floor standard.
In addition, ordinary cities did not possess the qualifications to test players. Only Adventurerâs Association branches in the Greater Godâs Domain or Holy Cities situated in the junctions between Godâs Domains were qualified to conduct the certification test.
Meanwhile, the so-called adventurer certification test was essentially a test of a playerâs combat standards. Players were required to challenge the World Tower during the certification test, and there were four levels of certification players could aim for: Basic Adventurer, Advanced Adventurer, Superior Adventurer, and Top Adventurer. These four certification levels corresponded to the World Towerâs four floors.
Only players who had successfully cleared the Basic Adventurer Certification would be recognized as first-floor experts. After reaching this standard, one would also become officially recognized as an expert in the Greater Godâs Domain.
As for players who managed to pass the Advanced Adventurer Certification, theyâd be recognized as second-floor experts in the Greater Godâs Domain. Theyâd also be treated as mid-level mainstays in the Greater Godâs Domainâs various Guilds, and theyâd be qualified to challenge the Large-scale Crisis Quests issued by Adventurerâs Association.
Meanwhile, Crisis Quests could be considered one of the main sources for Cross-Border Guilds to raise their Godâs Domain Fame. Among them, Large-scale Crisis Quests required a minimum of 100 players to challenge. This was also why one of the conditions to become a Bronze Cross-Border Guild required 100 second-floor experts.
Shi Feng took a big shortcut by using the Bronze Cross-Border Guild Promotion Order, so it was understandable that the Half-elf administrator would try to verify his Promotion Orderâs authenticity. After all, NPCs had already started to behave no differently from real people after the Main God System had undergone several upgrades. It was just that NPCs normally wouldnât interfere in the matters of players.
Afterward, the Half-elf administrator quickly left with the Promotion Order, leaving Shi Feng by himself at the front desk.
Unlike the quiet front desk, the nearby quest area for Guilds was filled with chatting players.
âDid you guys hear? The various superpowers had to abandon their territories and join forces just to occupy a few small cities. Even the Five Great Super Guilds have only managed to occupy a medium city after banding together, none of them daring to set foot in large cities,â a Level 109 Assassin said, sighing. âI donât even know what first- and second-rate Guilds like us are supposed to doâŠâ
âNo surprises there. Have you guys seen the players from those foreign Godâs Domains? Theyâre absurdly strong. Even though Iâm a Refinement Realm expert, I feel no different from an ordinary player in front of those people,â a Level 110 middle-aged Berserker said. âI also heard that most of these players are only the younger members of their respective powers. You can say that our Miniature Ancient World has become a training ground for the various Godâs Domainsâ younger generation.â
âI heard about that, too. Our Miniature Ancient World is one of the few places where they can compete from the same starting line after all. I also heard that the youths who perform well might have a chance at getting recruited by the Greater Worldâs conglomerate to become reserve executive members. This has stirred the competitiveness of the various Godâs Domainsâ youths, and they are now duking it out at the Colosseum,â a Level 110 Elementalist said, nodding. âItâs a pity that our local powers are too weak. In our Godâs Domain, youths that are peak experts are incredibly rare even in the Five Great Super Guilds, but even the weakest among the foreign Godâs Domainsâ youths are at the level of peak experts. If only our youths were a little stronger. Then, we wouldnât be looked down on by the other Godâs Domains so much, and we wouldnât have to be called natives.â
âDonât get your hopes up,â the Level 109 Assassin said. âHave you seen the battles taking place in the various NPC Citiesâ Colosseums? Do you know about Nature Hallâs One-eyed Ghost? Heâs one of our Godâs Domainâs Eight Sword Meisters, yet he lost to a seventeen-year-old Swordsman in less than a minute in Rock Devil Cityâs Colosseum. To make matters worse, he didnât even manage to reduce the boyâs HP by one-third before he got taken out.â
âIâve heard about that Swordsman. Aside from him, a little monster has also appeared in Red Obsidian Cityâs Colosseum. Sheâs a seventeen-year-old Berserker, and she took out Warring Tiger, one of the Five Blades, in only nineteen moves. Even when Warring Tiger used his trademark move Seven Tigers, the girl blocked the attack completely and lost less than 20% of her HP,â the Level 110 middle-aged Berserker said, sighing deeply. âMany more of such little monsters have appeared in other cities. Unless the God-ranked experts on our side make a move, I doubt anybody can go against these little monstersâŠâ
When the various Guild players in the hall talked about the battles taking place in the various NPC Citiesâ Colosseums, they couldnât help but be shocked by the foreign Godâs Domainsâ strength. At the same time, they also despaired when they thought about how the outcome of these battles would be deciding a portion of the various NPC Citiesâ management rights.
The management rights one could earn through the Colosseum would not only give one the right to manage the cityâs Auction House, but one could also decide the cityâs entrance fee.
However, the problem of the entrance fee was only secondary. What really worried everyone was whether they could even enter the various NPC Cities. After all, now that so many more players had flooded into the Miniature Ancient World, the various NPC Cities were no longer enough to accommodate all players.
Every NPC City could only accommodate a limited number of players. Meanwhile, once an NPC City reached full capacity, subsequent players that sought to enter the city would have to wait in line.
However, players with an NPC Cityâs management rights could give priority to certain people to enter the city. Once the various foreign powers took control of the Miniature Ancient Worldâs NPC Cities, it went without saying that they would give this priority to their own members. Then, they would give second priority to their allied powers and players from their Godâs Domain, while local players of the Miniature Ancient World would receive the least priority.
In this situation, there was almost no way local players with the least priority would get a chance to enter the various NPC Cities.
However, NPC Cities were essential for players to rest and conduct trade. Even leveling up would become a problem if players couldnât enter a city to rest. They also couldnât sell the resources they obtained, resupply on daily necessities, or repair their weapons and equipment.
Although trades could still be conducted in the fields, doing so came at great risk. After all, areas outside of NPC Cities were considered combat zones. The risks that came with robbing other players were much lower. Moreover, even if players could create a space outside where trades could be conducted safely, any trades that took place there would most likely involve a lot of price gouging.
Even the Greater Worldâs conglomerates are paying attention? Shi Feng couldnât help but be surprised by these Guild playersâ discussion.
Shi Feng wasnât surprised that the Miniature Ancient Worldâs local powers were having difficulty getting by after the myriad worldsâ descent. After all, their Godâs Domain had developed for only ten years. How could it possibly compete with Godâs Domains that had developed for multiple decades or centuries?
This was also why he was in a hurry to promote Zero Wing into a Bronze Cross-Border Guild.
Once Zero Wing became a Bronze Cross-Border Guild, its members would have priority to enter the various NPC Cities. Although a Bronze Cross-Border Guild would only have 30,000 priority slots to enter an NPC City, which was a pitiful amount considering large Guilds tended to have hundreds of thousands or even millions of members, this amount was enough for the current Zero Wing.
The only thing Shi Feng did not expect was for the Greater Worldâs conglomerates to be paying attention to the Miniature Ancient World. This was a very rare situation in the Greater Godâs Domain.
It should be known that any corporation in the Greater World capable of being considered a conglomerate held considerable power in the Greater World. A conglomerate was like a gigantic alliance of powers. Meanwhile, any player or power that received even a little bit of support from a conglomerate would have a much easier time getting by in the Greater World. Otherwise, theyâd only be taken advantage of by the Greater Worldâs various powers and have great difficulty achieving greatness.
This was also why people from Elementary and Intermediate Godâs Domains all sought to join a conglomerate.
While Shi Feng was in a daze, the Half-elf administrator returned to the front desk with his Promotion Order.
âWe have verified the authenticity of your Guild Promotion Order, Mr. Black Flame,â the Half-elf administrator said respectfully. âNow, all you need to do is pay a 10,000-Gold processing fee, and Zero Wing will be promoted into a Bronze Guild.â
âAlright. Here is the money,â Shi Feng said as he took out the 10,000 Gold he had prepared beforehand.
âI have verified the payment. I will take care of the promotion procedures for you right away,â the Half-elf administrator said after verifying the payment amount.
Around thirty seconds later, a system announcement was sent to every player in the Miniature Ancient World.
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System Announcement: Congratulations to Zero Wing for getting promoted into a Bronze Guild and becoming the first Bronze Guild in the Miniature Ancient World. Rewarding 100,000 Godâs Domain Fame Points. All Guild members will have their death penalties halved, and EXP acquisition is increased by 100% for the next ten days.
System: Congratulations! Your Guild, Zero Wing, has become the first Bronze Guild in the Miniature Ancient World. Rewarding one Legendary Legacy Scroll, one Overtier Spell Book, and three levels.
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