368 A Quiet 3rd Month (1/2)

_Gaia 2nd year 3rd month 1st day, Yashan City._

War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group, Qingfeng Pavillion, and Tingyu Floor, the three elite forces from these three guilds, a total of 1500 players, arrived in Yashan City.

After the three of them had formed a guild alliance, they formed a great understanding among one another. Lin Jing led the elite force of the War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group, while the captains of the respective guilds led the other two groups.

Such an arrangement was pretty much admitting that War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group would act as the leader.

Sun Xiaoyue went out to welcome the three.

They would rent a living area to act as their base and supply site.

For the elite forces, there were two places they wanted to explore.

Firstly, the South Mountain mysterious region—their main goal.

Although the South Mountain Cave could be explored numerous times, the first time would grant one extra rewards. The system would also report it. Hence, it was a great advertisement opportunity.

As there was only one cave and three guilds, they needed to take turns.

Lin Jing came out and gathered the two captains for a discussion. The result was that the three guilds would explore in the order of War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group, Qingfeng Pavillion, and Tingyu Floor.

Whoever ended up taking down the reward would be based on their skill and luck.

Although the War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group was first to explore, they did not gain any advantages.

Based on what the Blood Evil Mercenary Group revealed, if players died inside, they could revive without any penalties. However, there was one restriction. After they revived, they could not re-enter right away; they needed to wait for the next chance.

Gaia also made the rule that one player could only revive three times without penalties in the same mysterious region. After these three chances, the player would really face penalties, and their level would drop back to zero.

Gaia’s arrangements were not a result of mercy. Instead, it because the mysterious region was really too difficult.

To explore and pass through the first time was pretty much impossible.

When the Blood Evil Mercenary Group explored the region, they had spent one and a half months and changed five waves of people. Over two thousand people had died before they successfully passed.

The bigger the reward, the greater the risk.

Reality proved that the rewards that they earned were enough to cover for the losses they incurred.

Different mysterious regions would also have different upper limits set.

The upper limit of the South Mountain Cave was a hundred players.

Hence, an elite group could be split into five and take turns to explore.

Based on the type of mysterious region, they also had different settings on how many times it could be opened.

Adventure mysterious regions could only be explored once. Regardless of the result, they would disappear.

Scroll mysterious regions could be explored once a day until it is passed.

Public mysterious regions would be opened twice a day and would never disappear.

The South Mountain mysterious region was a public mysterious region. As such, it would open twice a day.

Three elite forces, fifteen teams. It would pretty much take them a week for all of them to go once.

Even so, there would be a team that would not have a chance to enter.

Hence, while they were not exploring the mysterious region, they would explore the Five Finger Mountains.

Their goal was not the normal beasts but instead the desolate beasts.

With that, not only could they level up, they could also acquire high grade resources. If they were lucky, maybe they would obtain an inner pellet too.

Apart from that, players could use contract scrolls to form contracts with the desolate beasts and make them pets or mounts.

Hence, Yazhou was pretty much a heaven to all of them.

After the elite force finished their preparations, they were ready to start their first exploration of the South Mountain Cave.

A day before the elite forces arrived, the third batch of migrants had set off from Beihai Harbor.

The main force of migrants were the ten thousand farmers taken from around Lianzhou Prefecture.

Their mission was to go and reclaim land. Yashan City needed to rush to complete the reclamation job before the Qingming Festival.

Following them was The Tiger Legion.

Apart from that, there were a hundred merchant ships.

The building of Yashan City was undoubtedly a huge chance for all the Chamber of Commerces. Especially when they heard that Lianzhou Lord wanted to send two elite divisions over, the Chamber of Commerces were more at ease.

The natural resources of Yazhou triggered their sensitive senses and made all of them eager to join in.

Various Chamber of Commerces bought huge quantities of land in Yashan City to build shops and workshops. At the same time, they also rented large amounts of land to reclaim and form farms.

Hence, the fleet of merchants, apart from carrying resources, also brought along a large amount of workers they hired from the imperial cities.

Of course, based on Ouyang Shuo's requirements, these workers would become members of Yashan City.

With that, the development of Yashan City would start to progress on the fast track.

Due to the restriction of Bing'er's rank, the strategy Ouyang Shuo employed was to attract more migrants. However, taking them from Lianzhou Prefecture was like taking a piece of a wall to fix another part of the wall.

The third batch of migrants would be the last batch of support from Lianzhou Prefecture to Yashan City.

The future population would come from other methods, such as attracting the Chamber of Commerces to move in and bring along workers with them. They could also attract adventure gamemode players, or aim for the natives on Qiongzhou Island.

All in all, Ouyang Shuo would not allow Yashan to develop at its current rate. With the support of Lianzhou Prefecture, Yashan City was destined to progress at a far faster speed.