Zero Wing City's City Lord's Manor stood at the very center of the city like a great mountain, surrounded by towering walls. The manor itself was protected by a magic array; aside from entering normally through the main gate, outsiders had no way of getting inside.
The NPCs guarding the entrance to the City Lord's Manor were all Level 150, Tier 2 guards, bolstered by a magic array. No matter how many players came now, they would all die.
As soon as Shi Feng led Orchid into the first-floor hall of the City Lord's Manor, they saw that it was filled with NPC merchants—hundreds of them.
Orchid was stunned by the sight when she entered the hall.
Though she did not know much about NPC merchants, she knew they were like the wandering merchants found in small towns, only far more reliable. They would not be there one day and gone the next, and they could provide players with a stable supply of rare items.
A typical small town would already be remarkable if it had twenty or thirty wandering merchants. Even the main town developed by Netherworld had only a little over forty wandering merchants at present.
Yet there were several hundred before her...
What Orchid did not know was that there were actually very few NPC merchants left now. Water Rose had long since turned away the 1-star NPC merchants, leaving only 2-star and 3-star NPC merchants in the hall.
"Guild Leader, you finally came." When Water Rose saw Shi Feng enter the hall, she could not help sighing in relief. "If you had come any later, these two 3-star NPC merchants would have left."
"What are their requirements for moving in?" Shi Feng asked directly.
Every NPC merchant wishing to settle in a guild city had their