The silent, ancient hall was lined with numerous stone pillars. Elemental Guards above Level 70 wandered through its center, making it impossible for players to approach even a single step. Moreover, the closer one got to the magic crystal pillars at the center, the shorter the distance between the Elemental Guards became.
The moment Shi Feng logged in, he resumed clearing the Elemental Guards.
Blackwater Guild's sudden offer and Zero Wing's rapid growth made Shi Feng realize that Zero Wing had already reached a bottleneck. Taking another step forward would be extremely difficult.
Although he had been laying the foundation for Zero Wing all along, even setting exceptionally strict requirements for recruiting players, as Zero Wing's fame grew, the territory it occupied expanded, and its members increased, it had ultimately reached the limit of what it could currently bear.
Even outsiders like Blackwater Guild could see this clearly. One could imagine that the other guilds probably understood it just as well.
Generally, once a guild reached a developmental bottleneck, it would seek investment from major corporations and conglomerates, injecting a large amount of capital to keep its overly rapid growth going.
Shadow Guild had been like this in the previous life. Its explosive development had led to a severe shortage of funds. Only after several major companies injected substantial capital had it been able to continue growing, eventually becoming a second-rate guild of that era.
This was also the choice most emerging guilds would make. However, the result was that the guild's shares would be divided up, its authority dispersed, and its cohesion greatly weakened.
Of course, there was another option: maintain the guild's current state, or even reduce its membership, slowing its development. Under normal circumstances, that would have been fine; at worst, it would merely be surpassed by