Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree

Of course, although there were three places marked in green in the Dark Mountain Range, Eve only planned to build one city there. Once a Player Guild chose one of the three locations, the other two would be removed from suitable city-building sites.

As for the Elf Forest, it went without saying that nearly any place was rich, and only needed consideration of terrain and geographical location. Of the more than twenty marked locations, apart from the three in the Dark Mountain Range, the rest were all in the Elf Forest.

In Eve's plan, considering the need for development and strategy, it was best to have a main city on the Dark Mountain Range, the Eastern Border of the Elf Forest, and the northern region of the Elf Forest.

The Elf Forest was relatively easy to discuss.

The Eastern Border was near the Vimur River (see Chapter 210), the largest river on the Segis Continent. It faced the Holy Mania Empire across the river, and there were often merchant ships from the southern Aries Kingdom and the Holy Mania Empire traveling through. River transport was well-developed, and the land along the river was very fertile, ideal for building a port...

This was still very attractive to those large guilds that had already begun trading with the Human World.

Although the northern area was far from the core region, it was rich in Demon Beast resources, which was very appealing to high-level players who liked hunting and adventuring.

Since a few months ago, some people had complained that traveling between the northern area and the southern core region was time-consuming, so if a city were built, it would definitely meet the need.

Not to mention, the former Divine Country had also fallen in that direction, and Eve planned to officially open the exploration to players soon.

It was foreseeable that even if the northern area was far, it had a high probability of becoming a hotspot for city-building.

The worry was that no one would be willing to go to the Dark Mountain Range...

Compared to the resource-rich Elf Forest, the Dark Mountain Range was still too barren. The concentration of Magic Power there was not high, transportation was not convenient, and even building a city posed quite a challenge.

However, as a unique "mountain range," maybe someone would actually be interested?

To this end, Eve planned to package and promote these city-building sites when introducing them to players.

For example, a mountain city is easy to defend and hard to attack, it has important strategic value connecting the Death Desert and the Elf Forest, and it has the potential to trigger hidden storylines...

Three key areas would have at least three cities, and the rest of the areas would be left for players to explore on their own.

Currently, there were 360,000 players in the "Elf Kingdom." Calculating with 30,000 players per city, that would be twelve cities. Rounding it off, Eve thought there should be at least ten cities, right?

She was quite looking forward to it.

To facilitate players' choices and to prepare them in advance, Eve uploaded these more than twenty locations to the official forum three days after the update log was released.

For a while, it pushed the enthusiasm for city-building to a new peak...

...

Time flew by quickly.

Unknowingly, the update date arrived, and the city-building system was about to officially open.

Chosen City, Central Temple.

Today, the Temple Square was more bustling than usual.

Everywhere in the square, players could be seen, in the buildings on both sides and in various areas.

The sounds of laughter and hawking rose one after another, as lively as a festival.

Players wore various equipment, with high-level players and newcomers alike, many of whom looked toward the temple with curiosity and excitement.

However, compared to the almost crowded square, the temple itself seemed quite deserted.

The Life Church, which was usually busy with people coming and going—and had even become overcrowded due to the massive influx of open-beta players—had not a single player at the moment, looking rather strange.

Looking from the square, one would find that the area where players gathered was distinctly separated from the temple by a boundary, forming a circle around it, with no one stepping in.

The feeling was as if there were an invisible barrier preventing players from entering the temple.

No, this was not just a feeling.

They really couldn't enter the temple.

This was Eve's doing.

Today was the day players could officially apply for city-building, and Eve would grant city-building orders to eligible guilds as Divine Favored Zero.

To prevent some guilds from exploiting loopholes to farm city-building orders, and to make players take the city-building slots more seriously, she decided to release them once every three months based on Segis World's time, distributing the city-building orders all at once.

The distribution location was the temple main hall in Chosen City, with only two hours for applications that day, and the handler was Divine Favored Zero, that is, Eve's alternate account.

This was also the reason she had specifically used the game system to prohibit players from entering the nearby area to prevent those just there for the excitement from crowding the temple.

Today, in the two hours starting now, only guilds meeting the application conditions could send representatives into the temple.

Outside the temple, Li Mu checked the time while waiting quietly.

It was not yet seven in the morning in Segis World, and the main door of the temple main hall was still closed, with only the side hall open to the public.

However, he was already a bit impatient.

After four days, the Nature's Heart Guild had already gathered the required contributions, and now they were just waiting to apply for city-building.

As for the city-building site...

Yesterday, the Nature's Heart Guild executives had discussed it for a whole day and decided to choose between the northern region of the Elf Forest and the Eastern Border.

The former was suitable for hunting, while the latter was suitable for commerce; both were quite good.

In addition to Li Mu, the other three major guild leaders, Xi Hong's Fried Tomato from the First Legion, Little Xian Miao from the Mengmeng Committee, and Transforming Ji Gang, who had renamed the guild from Autobots to Catastrophe Knight Order, were also present.