"Opening a trade route?" Senior Steward Erk looked at the black iron token in Shi Feng's hand in surprise and could not help reminding him, "Guardian, although you possess a Caravan Guard Token and are qualified to open a trade route to a town, I must remind you that opening a trade route is no trivial matter. The cost involved is substantial, and since you are opening a route from Star-Moon Royal City, not only will the price be extremely high, but the risks will also be immense. If you give up halfway, this Caravan Guard Token will become invalid."
"I understand, but I am confident that I can open a trade route to Silver Wing Town," Shi Feng said with a nod.
He understood trade routes better than anyone. He had opened many of them in his previous life.
In God's Domain, if any Guild town wanted to quickly attract NPC merchants and develop rapidly, it needed to open trade routes. Moreover, trade routes brought another enormous benefit: priority purchase rights and usage fees for the rare goods transported by NPC merchants.
This might not seem like much, but it was the primary source of wealth for a neutral town before it was promoted to a city, with no close second.
The greater a town's reputation, the more NPC merchants would travel there. Even ordinary NPCs, not just merchants, had to pay a usage fee when entering the town via this trade route. After all, it was a safe road escorted by high-level NPCs. Even players at Level 100 would not dare rob travelers along it.
Although the usage fee was not high—only 80 copper per NPC—and NPCs were far fewer in number than players, if 100,000 NPCs traveled along the route each day, it would earn 800 Gold