Chapter 358: The Nightmare of Adam City's Town-Level Guilds!
Adam City, City Lord's Mansion.
Li Xiang brought Anthony with him to find City Lord Hademan.
Seeing Li Xiang, Hademan was extremely respectful, serving Li Xiang tea and water, and offering the City Lord's seat for Li Xiang to sit.
Anthony watched curiously.
Although she was a Fire Spirit, she had been in Human society for a long time and knew how much power a City Lord held.
Such a figure was actually his servant.
"Master, have you come to inspect my work?"
Li Xiang nodded slightly, "You've been doing very well recently. How did the contact with the people above go, as I told you last time?"
"It went quite smoothly."
"Alright then. Besides giving you another ten million gold coins in funds today, there's something I need you to do."
Hearing that another ten million gold coins in growth funds had arrived, Hademan's heart pounded.
Let alone him, even a City Lord of a City would be tempted by such a huge amount.
But it was impossible for Li Xiang to bribe the City Lord of a City with enormous wealth.
It was a simple principle.
After understanding how intelligent the NPCs in this game were, if Li Xiang went there with huge sums of money, those old fellows who were already City Lords of Cities would only use various methods to swallow his wealth without bringing him any benefit.
This was the same as Andrew, the City Lord of Wu Shuang City in the Dragon Flame Empire.
If Andrew hadn't been the City Lord of a second-tier main City at first, but the City Lord of a City, it would have been impossible for Li Xiang to have the current relationship with him.
This was the advantage of cultivating someone himself...
In this Dafen Empire, Li Xiang's purpose in supporting Hademan, even at the cost of hundreds of millions of gold coins, was precisely this.
"Master, please speak."
"You know that Adam City has more than ten player Guilds under its jurisdiction, right?"
"I know, but they are all small Guilds. Except for a few that have reached town level, the rest are village level and pose no threat to Adam City."
"Okay, send people to those town-level Guilds and tell them that the City Lord's Mansion is preparing to incorporate them into the City Guard, have them accept Adam City's structure, and enjoy Adam City's benefits."
Hademan was stunned, "This... I understand, I will do it as quickly as possible."
"Not as quickly as possible, but do it now. What I want to see is all the town-level Guilds incorporated into the structure of the Adam City City Guard."
"Yes, Master."
Hademan immediately ran to carry out Li Xiang's order.
Li Xiang sat leisurely in the City Lord's hall drinking tea, "Anthony, won't you have a cup?"
Anthony poured herself a cup of tea and took a small sip, "So astringent..."
"This is a special tea from Adam City, most people can't even get to drink it."
Anthony took another sip, smacked her lips, "It's not good."
"Still a child after all~"
Anthony puffed out her chest, "I'm not a child! I'm fifty years old!"
Li Xiang glanced at her chest, "Fifty years old... and only grown this much?"
Anthony lowered her head dejectedly and muttered, "I don't know what's going on, I just won't grow..."
After a while, she looked up at Li Xiang, "Pumpkin, you had Hademan pacify all those town-level Guilds to prevent them from affecting Heaven's Gift Guild, right!"
Li Xiang nodded.
Anthony tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "But... they've been incorporated into the Adam City City Guard's structure, their Guild strength will further improve, won't it be easier for them to suppress us?"
Li Xiang smiled and looked at her, "After being incorporated into Adam City's management, who do you think they should listen to?"
Anthony was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea, which was so astringent she stuck out her tongue, "I'm not a child..."
Li Xiang smiled and looked outside, "The night is getting deeper..."
...
Tonight, Adam City was destined to be restless for several large Guilds.
NPCs from the City Lord's Mansion suddenly arrived at various town-level Guilds, offering numerous generous conditions to invite them to join the City Guard.
Joining NPC forces had always been a hot topic in the game "myth".
However, NPC forces were also divided into good and bad. The best choice was naturally to join official NPC forces, enjoying top-tier benefits and various privileges, but they were also the most difficult to join.
Next were various small NPC forces. While easy to join, their help to player growth was limited. After all, some NPC forces were just small groups, such as the 'Villager butcher! Team' in the Novice Village, which were only useful until players left the Novice Village.
Large forces had more complete promotion mechanisms. For example, the royal guard badge owned by Li Xiang belonged to the Dragon Flame Empire royal family. Even as a second-level Imperial Guard, he had the privilege of traveling anywhere below the level of a City and was valued by official NPCs.
Although Adam City was only a second-tier main City, it belonged to the official forces. Upgrading to a super-City level imperial City would not be a problem in the future.
It was even possible... to become the Emperor of a country!
This kind of temptation was not something players could resist.
The four town-level Guilds in Adam City agreed to join almost without thinking.
It was such a good opportunity, missing it would make them slap themselves awake even in their sleep, right?
After learning from Hademan that everything went smoothly while sitting leisurely in the City Lord's Mansion drinking tea, Li Xiang drained the last cup of tea in one gulp, "Well done."
Then, with a wave of his hand, ten million gold coins appeared on the ground.
"Thank you, Master!" Hademan prostrated himself on the ground, respectfully kowtowing to Li Xiang.
"Have your subordinates keep a close eye on them, arrange more tasks, don't let them be idle."
"Yes, Master!"
After doing all this, Li Xiang left with Anthony, feeling satisfied.
...
The news that the four major town-level Guilds of Adam City had joined the Adam City forces spread throughout Adam City overnight, and even had a huge impact on the forums of the entire Dafen Empire.
This was the first time since the game's launch that official NPCs had actively invited player Guilds to join.
For a time, a large number of players speculated that the game was going to launch a new version, and this was a signal.
But the players of the four major town-level Guilds hadn't even smiled for half a day before they were met with a nightmare.
A massive amount of tasks were sent from the official forces.
Many were extremely trivial tasks, including but not limited to helping find the missing underwear of Widow Wang from the East of the City, searching for Mark's pet snake from the North of the City, persuading the Denny couple not to divorce, and so on...
And they were all mandatory tasks that could not be refused at all.
The dreams of players who had originally aspired to join the four major town-level Guilds as a stepping stone to enter the official forces were shattered.
Players were here to play the game, not to be played by the game...