801 War Brings in Fortune (1/2)

Chapter 801 – War Brings in Fortune

Gaia 4th year, 1st month, 26th day, Shanhai City.

It was three days before Chinese New Year's Eve and Shanhai City was already filled with the festive spirit. The victory in the Battle of Yunnan had added an extra bit of splendor and excitement to this giant city, brining pride and honor to the faces of the people.

Along with the Civil Affairs Department migration plan coming to an end, Shanhai City's population was getting closer to the two million mark. Especially after Shanhai City claimed complete victory in the Yunnan Battlefield, more and more players applied to move in.

Any player with foresight would know that the imperial cities would not remain safe forever. Once the Lords in the wilderness reached a certain level of strength, the two would definitely have conflicts and war would be totally unavoidable.

Who would have higher chances of winning?

Different people had different thoughts.

However, one thing was for certain - territories in the wilderness had unlimited growth potential. With Shanhai City as an example, they started with nothing. Now, in a short 3 years, they had gathered a million troops.

And due to the system restrictions, the imperial cities were stuck at the same place since the start.

When the wilderness territories fought against the imperial cities, the players who were stuck in between them would need to make a choice. If they chose wrong, they might become a sacrifice.

They had to make this decision early on.

The only new factor was the opening of the underground world, which had locked up all their attention.

There were rumors spreading that after the Chinese New Year, the nine imperial cities would all push out storyline quests relating to the satellite cities.

Just as the Battle of Yunnan broke out, large-scaled PKs between guilds numbered no less than 100 while small-scaled ones were countless. The guild circle in the nine imperial cities were undergoing a refresher.

To the small and medium-sized guilds, they only had three choices ahead of them. They could move their members to a wilderness territory and give up on the underground world.

Otherwise, they could choose a camp and join a large guild, or totally disappear, the guild broken up, the members taken in.

Apart from that, they had no other choices.

Even if anyone tried to be smart and contact the other small and mid-sized guilds to copy the City-State model to build a guild alliance, the large-sized guilds would immediately crush their attempts.

On this point, the large guilds had a common consensus.

The times of the fishes grouping up in the guild circle had passed and would never return.

This whole matter was thorough and deep, and the number of people killed reached an unprecedented number.

Even the publishing of the information piece Wulin arrives could not draw the players' attention away. The nine imperial cities all opened up sects and dojos but very few people went to learn.

Since they were on the verge of a war, players sought for a quick raise to their skills to prepare for the battle. To learn basic sect martial arts now was just too late and would not help much.

There might even be cases where their skills dropped due to conflicting martial arts.

During this period of time, equipment, medicine, substitute dolls, and similar items saw their prices on the market climb; this was especially so with high grade products. The prices of these products doubled, becoming a market where there was a lack of supply.

To survive in the huge war, players did not mind spending all their gold.

Meng Zhida reported that the savings amount of the 1st month was lower than the amount taken out, a historical negative growth for the bank.

To counter this, the Four Seas Bank had to reduce its loans.

When merging with Consonance City, the shares of Constance City and the relevant duties were transferred to Shanhai City. Ouyang Shuo even paid a one-time payment of 500 thousand to Bai Hua for this matter.

Gaia was undoubtedly an intelligent chess master. When they pushed out the achievement value event, they did not want players to save in banks to gain interests but to spend it all.

The release of the underground world and the Satellite City dispute was one of the moves Gaia had come up with.

The upcoming guild war was a massive money making opportunity for Lord gamemode players, who were not affected by these fights. Especially military giants like Shanhai City, just the sales to Snow-War Rose, Qingfeng Pavillion, Tingyu Floor, and other allies had broken four million.

Luckily, the recently ended Yunnan battle had provided them with 200 thousand odd sets of equipment.

Along with the scattered equipment that they obtained from the battlefield, the numbers were even greater.

Just this alone helped Shanhai City earn more than four million gold, changing the fates of the struggling territory finances.

Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate, spending 1.5 million on the new round of military organization as well as the extra rewards for the soldiers that joined in both the Battle of Lingnan and Yunnan.

The moment the news was released, the soldiers felt their blood boil.

Of course, Ouyang Shuo did not forget the civil servants and used 500 thousand gold to reward the local civil servants. Especially those who had performed exceptionally well, those individuals were given much higher rewards.

Without the contributions of the tens of thousands of civil servants throughout the year, how would the territory become so prosperous?

Two million gold could be said to be the year-end bonus that Ouyang Shuo had given out. Such generosity was something that other territories had no way of matching.