After the members of the Storm Heart Adventurer Team paid the exorbitant entry fee, Kulo and the others carefully followed some players who wanted to take a look inside Starlight Fortress, slipping through the fortress gates right under the Holy Dragon's nose.
"No way! There are actually people willing to waste that money?"
"Maybe they think they came all this way, so they want to look around. But what's there to see in a fortress? The magic power inside is just a little denser, that's all. They want us to be suckers? No chance!"
As Kulo and the others entered Starlight Fortress one after another, the players around them who had been preparing to leave all looked at them with disdain.
An entry fee of twenty silver coins was unprecedented across the entire Western Continent.
Twenty silver coins were enough to thoroughly repair all of one's weapons and equipment. For some Tier 2 players, it was even their entire day's income.
Spending an entire day's earnings just to see Starlight Fortress, or experience its dense magic power for a single day, was simply idiotic.
Not long after saying this, the players turned and left one after another without the slightest hesitation.
In an instant, more than ninety percent of the players who had originally flowed in like a tide dispersed, leaving fewer than ten thousand people queued at the gates to enter.
"They've already taken Starlight Fortress, yet they're still driving people away. Looks like we won't even need to do anything for Starlight Fortress to be finished."
"All purchases inside have to be paid for with Magic Crystals? They really dared to come up with that."
"They're utterly stupid. They think that just because Starlight Fortress is the only fortress in Star Valley, they can squeeze players however they