"Is there a trade route?" Senior Deacon Elk looked at the black iron token in Shi Feng's hand in surprise, and couldn't help reminding, "Lord Guardian, although you have a caravan guard token and have the qualifications to open a town's trade route, but I want to remind you that opening a trade route is not trivial, and the cost is also extraordinary, and you are coming to the Star Moon King City to open a trade route, not only the price is extremely high, but the risk is also extremely high, if you give up halfway, this caravan guard token will be invalid." ”

"I understand, but I have the confidence to open a trade route to Silverwing." Shi Feng nodded.

As for the opening of trade routes, he understood things that he had done many times in his previous life.

In God's Domain, if any guild town wants to quickly introduce NPC merchants and make the guild town develop rapidly, it needs to open a trade route, and there is a huge benefit after opening a trade route, that is, the priority purchase and use fee for rare items transported by NPC merchants.

It may seem like nothing, but it is true that a neutral town was the main source of wealth before it was promoted to a city, and there was no one.

As the town becomes more popular, the more NPC merchants will go to the town, even if they are not NPC merchants, even if they are just ordinary NPCs, they also need to pay a usage fee to enter the town after using this trade route, because this trade route is a safe road, and there are high-level NPC escorts, even if the player reaches level 100, they will not dare to rob the road.

Although the price of the usage fee is not high, each NPC only charges 80 copper, and the number of NPCs is far less than the number of players, but if there are 100,000 NPCs a day to and from this trade route, you can earn 800 gold a day, and this is still just a trade route, the income of a city to and from the town, the more trade routes introduced, the more the town will earn.

However, such things as trade routes can only be promoted to mid-level towns on neutral maps, and do not exist in kingdoms and empires.

In addition, the number of NPCs to and from the town also has a lot to do with the NPC city that connects the trade routes, the more prosperous the NPC, the more NPCs will come and go to the town, such as the trade route that opens the royal city, which can generally ensure the flow of 100,000 to 200,000 NPCs per day, and the ordinary NPC city is generally 20,000 to 50,000, but the more prosperous the NPC city is, the more difficult it is to open.

In addition to making money, opening trade routes is also one of the ways to obtain rare materials.

Not all of the items shipped by NPC merchants will be sold to players, and a considerable number of them are sold to NPCs, which cannot be purchased by ordinary players at all, and with the right of first refusal, not only can you buy items sold to players, but even items sold to NPCs.

Among the items sold to NPCs, there are many materials that are difficult to buy on the market, and there are even magic crystals that can be bought, but the asking price is higher than the market price between players, one costs forty silver coins, but this is very valuable for the guild, after all, it is easy to exchange magic crystals for gold coins, but it is difficult to exchange gold coins for magic crystals, especially for a large number of magic crystals.

NPCs are different from players, and it is much easier than players to obtain magic crystals, because most of the veins that can produce magic crystals in the kingdom and empire are occupied by NPCs, so NPC merchants who sell magic crystals sometimes sell 5,000 to 10,000 magic crystals, but it is extremely difficult to buy 5,000 to 10,000 magic crystals from players.

In addition, these NPC merchants will occasionally sell some rare high-level blueprints, which are much higher than buying and selling between players, but they are too rare for players to easily get their hands on, and sometimes even sell clues to Legendary item fragments and Legendary item fragments.

Although this is rare throughout the Divine Domain, the more NPC merchants who travel to and from the town, the higher the probability of getting Legendary Item Fragments and Legendary Item Fragment clues.

Fragments of legendary items, even if they are just clues, are very valuable.

Since there is a possibility of obtaining it, of course Shi Feng can't let it go, after all, there are not many ways to obtain Legendary-level item fragments that he knows, because most players will not casually say how they came about even if they get Legendary-level item fragments, and they don't even want to expose that they have Legendary-level item fragments, all he can know are well-known Legendary-level item fragments, and the ways to obtain them are very harsh, and most of them are not available now.

"Since the Lord Guardian understands, it would be great, if the Lord Guardian wants to open up the trade route to Silver Wing Town, according to this journey, the basic cost is 10,000 gold, and the number of magic crystals is 5,000, because the Lord Guardian has an ordinary caravan guard order, you are only allowed to recruit and form a hundred regiments at most, and the team also needs to carry at least one high-level magician to engrave a special magic array on the road to ensure that monsters can be driven away on the road." High Deacon Elk said, "I don't know if Lord Guardian needs me to introduce mercenaries to accompany you?" ”

"Of course." Shi Feng nodded.

The Caravan Guard Token itself is like a special quest to open a trade route, which can be completed by all players or by hiring mercenaries from the Adventurer's Guild.

Mercenaries are definitely more powerful than players at this stage, so players who get tokens are willing to hire mercenaries to do tasks together, but the price is very high, and some guilds will let players do it in order to save money and feel that their strength is good.

Although the main group of Zero Wing is very strong, the level of the trade route to the Orc Empire is not low, and the monsters that appear along the way are generally more than fifteen levels higher than the map level, and the monster level in many places of the Orc Empire is above level 60, and the level of the monsters that interfere is at least level 75 or above, which is too high for the current main group of the Zero Wing Guild and is not suitable for this task.

"Okay, here's a list of mercenaries who are willing to follow the Guardian." Elk then took out a list and handed it to Shi Feng.

The task of opening trade routes is very special and dangerous, it is not about hiring any kind of mercenary you want, but also according to the player's own status in the adventurer's guild, the higher the status, the more mercenaries are willing to participate in the action, the better.

"It's amazing, it's equivalent to the treatment of the vice president, and it's really helpful to open up trade routes." Shi Feng looked at the employment list and was slightly stunned.

In the previous life, he opened a trade route, and the strongest one he could hire was only a three-star level second-order NPC, and it was very difficult to open a trade route, but on the employment list, not to mention the three-star second-order NPC, even the two-star level and third-order NPCs came to participate, and I have to say that the high-level title has brought great help to players.

Shi Feng spent more than fifteen thousand gold in one go, spent the money on hand, and hired ninety-seven mercenaries, the lowest level of these mercenaries is 80, the weakest are 80-level three-star second-order NPCs, and the strongest is 83-level two-star third-order NPCs, and there are as many as fifteen third-order NPCs in the entire team, which can be said to be extremely powerful.

After Shi Feng completed all the formalities and learned to carve a special high-level magic array, Shi Feng summoned Anna at level 85 and Kate at level 83, and drove a Mithril-level transport vehicle to Silverwing Town with the other ninety-seven NPCs.

The Mithril-level transport vehicle driving on the street can be said to be swaggering, because the mount pulling the transport cart is a thunder-horned earth dragon with a height of more than five meters, and it has the strength of the great lord level, walking on the street is like a giant beast, and the number of transport vehicles going to the house is full of ten, and the scene is spectacular.

"What's the situation? Is there something big going on in the city? ”

"That's not right! You see that the person driving the transporter seems to be a player, could it be that this player triggered some event? ”

"The guild emblem on that player seems to be the six-winged emblem of the Zero Wing Guild!"

"The Zero Wing Guild is too good! To be able to make such a powerful transport vehicle, I even have more than a dozen third-order NPCs, which is simply against the sky! ”10