Stone Forest City, top-floor reception room of the Free Inn.
In the spacious, luxurious reception room, the female knight from Dark Fantasy and Elder Jin from the Divine Society sat silently on the sofa without saying a word. Magic Flash, Old Lin, and the others accompanying the two major guilds stood off to the side in a daze. The atmosphere in the room was unbearably awkward.
This was too embarrassing!
They had thought their previous meeting with Shi Feng would be the last. Shi Feng would never see them again, much less cooperate with their two major guilds. That had simply been wishful thinking.
Yet how long had it been? At most a day or two, and they had actually come knocking on his door of their own accord.
Moreover, neither of their guilds had taken Shi Feng's words seriously before. They had thought he had to be insane to make such grand claims, yet those grand claims had come true.
And now, Zero Wing had even taken control of the Dark Great World's teleportation gate, grasping the lifeline of the Dark Great World players' development. Any guild or player in the Dark Great World that wanted to develop faster had no choice but to enter the Cold Spring Great Forest.
However, the teleportation fee Zero Wing had set was truly outrageous.
One Dark Magic Crystal per person, or a Magic Crystal of another attribute of equivalent value...
One had to know that Magic Crystals of other attributes were far rarer than ordinary Magic Crystals. In particular, the number of Magic Crystals with other attributes was much lower than that of Dark Magic Crystals. Meanwhile, Dark Magic Crystals were consumables needed by dark players to improve themselves, and demand for them was enormous. The various major powers and independent players