Chapter 318: The Hall of Stars that seized the opportunity
The Southern Continent Free Federation is composed of a total of 26 independent counties, and among them, according to the strength of each county, as well as the geographical division and diplomatic relations, there are actually four county states that have the right to represent the voice within the federation, which are collectively referred to as the "four major counties of the federation".
Needless to say, Lancarlos County, which sits in the south, has been hit hard by the undead invasion a few months ago, but its long-term accumulation as the "capital" of the Free Federation still ensures that Lancarlos County is now the "capital" of the Federation without criticism in terms of overall strength. In addition to Lancarros, Fort Albat, which is adjacent to the border of the southeast continent and has always been known for its powerful military force, and Nopra County, a maritime trading city located on the northern inland coast of the southern continent, are now one of the county states that now hold the main voice within the federation, and the last member of the four major county states is Amovals County, which is located on the west side of the federation and borders the strange domain.
Compared with the three major county states with distinctive characteristics such as Lancarros, Amovalls County can easily give people the feeling that it seems to have a name in vain and does not have the strength that matches its identity as the "four major counties of the Federation", but in fact, as the only county state within the Federation that has achieved "equality in the true sense" between various races such as humans, subhuman races and even beast spirit races, Amovales seems to have no strength on paper. But the hidden potential that lies beneath the mediocre surface of this county is quite staggering.
As long as the politicians of Amorewells County are willing, they have the ability to use Amorewells as a "banner" and a "platform" to influence the ideas and ideas of the subhuman races and beast spirits scattered throughout the Southern Continent; In the event of a war, they can also immediately assemble an official army composed entirely of subhuman races and beast spirits who are physically stronger than humans; The geographical location close to the Strange Domain makes Amovals a transit point for land trade between the Federation and the Strange Domain, and although its trade prosperity is not as good as that of Nopra County, it is enough to rank in the top five or even the top three within the Federation.
In a way, if you count the potential strength, Amovalls is more than enough to compete with Lancarros, the first county of the Federation, but due to the special racial composition of Amovalls, it has a feeling of incompatibility in the human-dominated free federation. Because of this, although Amorewells is powerful, he has always been very low-key within the Federation, and his external image has always been "neutral" or "peacemaker".
However, this situation has recently been broken, as a county on the western border of the Free Federation, such a huge change has occurred within the Strange Domain, and Amovers has borne the brunt of it, becoming the first county state in the Free Federation to be fully affected and even threatened by the Chaos Pollution Crisis of the Strange Domain. When it comes to chaos and the safety of his own county, Rao's always low-key Amovalls can't sit still, and begins to speak out frequently within the Federal Assembly about this incident, advocating comprehensive assistance to the Strange Domain (keeping the danger out of his own territory) and actively seeking the lead of this aid operation (not allowing outsiders to dictate in his own territory).
Of course, for players whose identities are mostly civil adventurers of the Federation, these activities and negotiations between the NPCs of the upper level of the Federation are not clear and uninterested in inquiring, and finally with the efforts of the County of Amevers, the operation coordination headquarters of the Federation official and the adventurer union in the Federation to assist the Strange Domain was set up in County Amovalls, which is what players really care about - after all, this means that Lancarlos in the plot of the invasion of the undead, After Nopra County in the Storm Inland Sea plot, Amovals County, which is also one of the "Four Great Counties of the Federation", will become the "temporary home city" on the side of the Federation during the main story of the new Strange Domain.
Just like the Storm Inland Sea plot, all players who want to participate in the exploration of the Inland Sea for a long time and even the Inland Sea War will want to buy their own temporary stronghold and ships in Nopra County, after the main plot of the Strange Domain is clear, the systematic land price in Amwells County has also risen, and players who unfortunately missed the opportunity to take the lead now want to set up a base of their own in Amwells County, even if it is just a small room in a dilapidated inn on the street, It all costs a pretty painful price.
However, this kind of trouble obviously does not belong to the members of those large guilds, long before the plot of the Strange Domain appeared, the large guilds within the Federation had the opportunity to set up their own guild strongholds in Amovales County, which has nothing to do with foresight, and is purely a strategic move by each guild in order to ensure the overall development of its own forces within the Federation.
And among them, after experiencing the plot of the Storm Inland Sea, the Hall of Stars is now the well-deserved number one guild within the Federation, and it is also because the President Xinghe noticed that there will be signs of the main plot in the Strange Domain when everyone was paying attention to the national war expansion, so he spent money or rented or bought land in Amovall City to purchase a large piece of land for the Hall of Stars to stay and activities for a long time, and because of this, in this main story of the Strange Domain, Whether it's in the first phase of free exploration or in the second phase of the concentrated raids on the polluted zone, the players of the Hall of Stars, who are almost completely free of logistical worries, have unleashed an enviable combat power and group efficiency.
And now, the plot has entered the final chapter stage of the Black Dragon King's rampage in the Dragon King's Holy City with the disappearance of Gribal, the two-headed dragon dragon who fought with the players in the second phase, in the fifth chaotic pollution source area. In order to respond to the call for help and crusade from Federal Councilor Farouo, who is now trapped in the Dragon King Holy City, and in order to be able to go to the Dragon King Holy City as soon as possible to start the exploration of the wasteland, the major guilds in the Federation have begun to gather a large number of guild members in Amovales County to prepare for the formation of the Holy City Expedition. And due to the preparation in advance, the Hall of Stars once again took the lead in this in-game "arms race".
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While the other guilds were still urgently organizing their manpower and mobilizing equipment and props, the first echelon of the Dragon King Holy City Raiders organized by the Hall of Stars was already fully equipped, and under the personal leadership of the leader Xinghe, they left Amowells and headed towards the Dragon King Holy City inside the Strange Domain.
Although it is the first echelon with a sense of temptation and vanguard, Galaxy has almost all of the elite groups mobilized in Amover County with him, and he has made no secret of his ambition to pay attention to first-come, first-served, and even strive to win the first victory of the rampaging Black Dragon King Dejess.
In other words, if the player dies in the wild here and does not get timely resurrection rescue, then the player can only choose to be reborn in Amovals County as the starting point to start from scratch, or spend a lot of time waiting for the soul runner in the game to be resurrected in situ, which undoubtedly brings great inconvenience to the player's wild adventure exploration.
It was precisely because of this characteristic of the Strange Domain that after learning that the Star Glory Hall was ready so quickly and sent its own elite group as the first batch of expeditionary forces, the other major guilds, including the Dark Domain, were worried that the Star Glory Hall would properly seize the opportunity, and at the same time, they secretly hoped that the Star River's arrogant decision would make him suffer the bitter fruit.
Unlike the previous times when the dragon army of the two-headed dragon Gribal assisted in the raid on the source of the Chaos Pollution Zone, the Dragon King Holy City of the Strange Realm is farther away from Amovalls, and there are no NPCs to guide the player before the official rescue force of the Free Federation departs. Due to the fall of the Black Dragon King and the fall of the White Dragon King, and the whereabouts of the Light and Dark Two-Headed Dragon, the Strange Domain is now in chaos, and after entering the Strange Domain, the Xinghe and their team not only have to grope their way to the Dragon King's Holy City, but also have to face all kinds of dangerous wild monsters and even bosses that may appear in the Strange Domain, even if the team members are all elites in the Star Palace, casualties are absolutely inevitable.
There is no nearby resurrection base in the Strange Domain, and after these elites in the team are killed or wounded, Xinghe will either give up waiting for them and continue to move forward, or they can only spend time resting in place after each battle, waiting for the team members who are dead and have not been able to resurrect later. The former will make Xinghe not have enough strength to challenge the boss even if he really arrives at the Dragon King Holy City first, and the latter will make the Star Shine Hall that attacked first this time catch up with other guilds over time, and eventually become a laughing stock.
The enemies of the Hall of Stars and most of the neutrals expressed their unfavorable attitude towards the behavior of the Hall of Stars to take the lead with the elite group this time, but what they didn't know was that Xinghe would make such a decision precisely because Xinghe did have enough strategic resources in his hands to give him the corresponding confidence.
Galaxy originally knew that there might be a main plot in the Strange Domain earlier than everybody, and it was from the NPC Councilor Farouo who was not in favor of the national war, in fact, since then, Xinghe has been deliberately maintaining a good relationship with Farouo, an NPC (in game terms, it is to increase Farouo's favorability), this time after Farouo was trapped in the Dragon King Holy City, at the same time as his request for help was transmitted back to Amorewells, as "Farouo's most trusted adventurer", At the same time, Galaxy also received a more detailed private request for help from Farouo, which included a specific road map from Amovalls to the Dragon King's Holy City, which is where Galaxy is confident.
Coincidentally, in addition to Farouo's gift, there was also a team of unexpected visitors, which also made Xinghe feel a little more confident in this adventure, yes, this team of unexpected visitors to Xinghe was none other than Rococo and her friends who had provided Xinghe with a lot of mission information about the Strange Domain that even he, the president of the Hall of Stars, had never heard of.