A Full-Scale Campaign Against the Tidal Crystal Wall System

Lin Xiao ultimately did not join a guild.

After finding a place to stay, he spent half a day watching the channels and observing other players' discussions, gaining a certain understanding of these so-called guilds.

It would not be entirely accurate to say they were useless. They could indeed protect you from being bullied, but they were not all that useful either. If your status in the guild was low and you had not been around long, you were only slightly better off than being alone. In the end, it still came down to whether you were strong enough.

Only strength brought status. But if I was already strong, who could bully me? A Fourth Order evolver was already considered upper-middle class in a main city where the highest level was only Fifth Order.

The evolution limit was certainly not merely Fifth Order. But after reaching Fifth Order, the monsters and dungeons around the main city could no longer satisfy the accumulation of Evolution Points. One had to venture deeper and farther away, essentially changing to a new map. It was difficult to return even once. At present, the strongest people in the major civilization main cities were only Fifth Order. Most had only recently advanced, or knew they had no hope of going further and thus stayed in the main city to become superior to others. Wasn't that delightful?

Just like in many games, after leaving the Novice Village and entering the main city, the strength of nearby monsters rose drastically. But the monsters around the main city were not particularly powerful. After all, one could enter the main city at First Order, so the nearby monsters were generally only First or Second Order. People like Lin Xiao, who had reached Fourth Order, had to take the Spectre Train