Stone Forest Town, Arena.
The Arena, nearly a hundred meters tall, stood in Stone Forest Town—the greatest height a mid-sized town could reach. Even players standing in the farthest corners of Stone Forest Town could see it clearly.
By now, this place had become the center of Stone Forest Town. Nearly every player who came to Stone Forest Town would enter the Arena for a look.
The moment Shi Feng, clad in a black cloak, entered the Arena's central hall, he saw three to four hundred players seated in the rest area, waiting in line to enter the combat rooms. The lines before the payment windows were several times longer than those in the rest area.
Although it could not compare to its peak period, the Arena still generated a net daily income of over a thousand gold—enough to make even first-rate guilds drool.
Of course, first-rate guilds now earned far more than a thousand gold per day. However, the larger the guild and the more members it had, the greater its expenses became. This was especially true after obtaining guild towns; investing in a town's development was a bottomless pit. In order to develop their towns, guilds poured nearly half their earnings into them, leaving very little money in hand as actual liquid capital each day.
That was only possible because major first-rate guilds had powerful, well-funded corporations backing them and continuously supplying large amounts of gold. Otherwise, they simply could not sustain the initial investment required for a town.
Meanwhile, Stone Forest Town's Arena generated over a thousand gold in net daily profit even after deducting all town development expenses. This left the major guilds incredibly envious, which was why guild towns everywhere had begun building Arenas as well.
It was precisely because of the three major income