After several days of hard work, the Drinking Water Alliance players finally upgraded Drinking Water City to Level 5. Not only had its Defense and attack power increased dramatically, but the additional shops and facilities had also attracted more players to settle there, increasing tax revenue and further easing the alliance's funding shortage. Combined with the improved cohesion and vitality of the Drinking Water Alliance, Sage Wuming and the others were greatly encouraged and gained the confidence to contend with guilds like the Dongfang Family. At the very least, they were confident they could inflict greater casualties and consumption on the Dongfang Family and the others if they attacked the city—under such circumstances, the Dongfang Family and the others would be wary and would not dare rashly attack Drinking Water City.
It was worth mentioning that now that Drinking Water City had reached Level 5, Drinking Water Alliance players no longer needed to deliberately undertake Guild Headquarters quests. They could devote more energy to Instance Missions or hunting high-tier bosses. Of course, they could also assign more people to take mercenary missions. This further increased the Drinking Water Alliance's strength, while their income also rose somewhat, further easing their lack of funds.
Although the Drinking Water Alliance's cohesion and vitality had increased greatly and everything was moving in a positive direction, Sage Wuming and the others knew that Drinking Water City alone was still insufficient to support the entire alliance. Therefore, they still had to "lay off" players. In fact, because their income was higher than before, the number of players they laid off each day had also increased—they remembered Yan Hua Yi Leng's suggestion and planned to reduce their player count to fifty or sixty million.
Seeing Drinking Water City's revenue—and more importantly, seeing that they had upgraded it