Inside the luxurious VIP reception room, the somewhat tattered parchment looked distinctly out of place. However, after Shi Feng took out the parchment, the NPC senior steward became even more respectful, carefully opening the parchment on the table to verify it.
Although the value of a Town-Building Order was far inferior to that of a City-Building Order in the Star-Moon Kingdom, the significance represented by the two was that a Town-Building Order surpassed a City-Building Order of the Star-Moon Kingdom.
This was because a Town-Building Order could be used to build a town without restrictions, even in neutral regions. Neutral regions were not governed by kingdoms or empires; it was like becoming king in another land.
Although a City-Building Order in the Star-Moon Kingdom was extremely valuable, it was still subject to the Star-Moon Kingdom's jurisdiction. Its holder would remain a citizen of the Star-Moon Kingdom and be heavily influenced by it.
The simplest example was that every town and city within the Star-Moon Kingdom had to pay substantial management fees each month. At Zero Wing City's current city rank, the monthly management fee alone was 30,000 Gold. If it advanced to an intermediate or advanced city, the price would multiply several times over.
However, in a neutral region, there was no need to pay any management fees to the Star-Moon Kingdom. One only needed to pay the System a comparatively small management fee.
While this had its advantages, it also came with an enormous drawback: it was unsafe. Within kingdoms and empires, towns and cities were protected by those kingdoms and empires. At most, they only had to deal with monster sieges. In neutral regions, however, they faced more than just monsters; other foreign races would often launch attacks as well.
Even if some insufficiently powerful Guilds obtained a