Translator: Hellscythe_ Editor: Hellscythe_
A city completely under his control!
This was a dream for Zero Wing.
Shi Feng had once led Shadow, a Guild that owned ten city-states, so he knew how valuable and how great the advantages were for owning his own city.
Although Zero Wing was developing well at the moment, its lack of a stable source of income for Credits was a major flaw.
Other first-rate and second-rate Guilds had support from wealthy corporations. These corporations would provide funding to their partnered Guilds, allowing these Guilds to develop steadily without worrying about a shortage of Credits.
Although Shi Feng had many ways to earn Coins in God's Domain, it was not easy to support a Guild with Coins alone. Moreover, along with the Guild's development and the influx of new members, its demand for Coins would increase as well. Converting large sums of Coins into Credits was not a suitable long-term plan to develop a Guild.
However, it would be a different story if Shi Feng possessed a city of his own.
Why were large corporations willing to invest so many Credits into a Guild? Wasn't it to earn money?
However, how were they going to earn money?
The answer was a player-established autonomous city.
If a Guild possessed an autonomous city, it could start seeking investors to rent out shops and such in its city. Through these investors, the Guild could then earn a large amount of Credits and Coins, thereby solving the problems of the Guild's future development.
Thus, Shi Feng was determined to obtain the rights to establish his own city. Even if he had to pay a huge price in the process, he would.
After a moment of silence, Shi Feng answered, "Lady Sharlyn, I accept your conditions."
"Good. I really did not choose the wrong person. Since you've agreed, the contract between us will be established from this moment onward." Sharlyn nodded and drew a silver rune in midair. She then imprinted the rune on the back of Shi Feng's hand and said, "This is a Spirit Seal, and it can be used to absorb Immortal Souls. What I want you to do is to collect 10,000 Immortal Souls."
"Collect Immortal Souls?" Shi Feng said, unable to suppress his shock. "You want me to kill 10,000 heaven-blessed individuals?"
When NPCs spoke of heaven-blessed individuals, they were referring to players. Players were immortal existences in God's Domain, and they could resurrect infinitely at the cost of some levels and EXP. This was all due to the souls of players being immortal.
Meanwhile, Shi Feng could only obtain the Immortal Soul from the corpse of a player. Moreover, Shi Feng needed to meet a few requirements before he could absorb the Immortal Soul of another player. First, he could not be 5 levels higher or lower than the target player. Second, he needed to kill the target player personally. Lastly, upon the target player's death, the distance between Shi Feng and the player could not exceed 10 yards. If he failed to meet any of these conditions, he would not absorb the player's Immortal Soul.
For the NPCs of God's Domain, absorbing the Immortal Souls of heaven-blessed individuals was taboo. If Shi Feng were discovered doing so, no one, NPCs or players, would hold back from killing him.
As to why players would try to kill Shi Feng as well, it was because any players who lost their Immortal Souls would be barred from logging into the game for a long time. It was a punishment more severe than the penalty for death. Hence, there was no leeway for Shi Feng if he were caught in the act.
