Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree

It turned out that when it came to city-building efficiency, the "Elf Kingdom" indeed had the Mengmeng Committee claiming second place, with no guild daring to claim first.

After Little Xian Miao explained her thoughts clearly, the guild players were immediately intrigued...

And the voices of doubt disappeared a week later after the players had opened the path to the third city-building location.

Just like Little Xian Miao said, although the rock layer of this basin was very thick and could not directly reach the Underworld, there was a tunnel opened by Spider Queen Rose that led straight to the third city-building point closest to the Underworld.

The cave that could accommodate the size of Spider Queen Rose when she was at the Golden Rank was definitely not small.

At the very least, it could easily accommodate the most popular trucks driving side by side, with plenty of space left over, enough for four or five players to walk back and forth doing handstands and jumping.

Good transportation conditions were a prerequisite for large-scale trade.

The cave was slightly winding, but this didn't have much impact; players would at most take an hour to reach the third city-building point closest to the Underworld, after which they only needed to open a proper passage connecting to the Underworld.

Excavating the passage was not difficult either; the rock layer thickness between the third city-building point and the Underworld was even weaker than the players imagined, probably less than a thousand meters.

The tunnel dug by Spider Queen Rose was already over five hundred meters below ground.

So, with the help of Magic and Earth Cave Spiders, players dug just another two hundred meters to open the entrance to the Underworld.

What surprised them was that upon entering the Underworld from this location, they didn't arrive at the Deep Cave where Black Rock City was located (refer to Chapter 172), but at a border city of the Silent City State Alliance (refer to Chapter 347)!

This was significant.

It should be known that currently, the Silent City State Alliance was the one conducting the most trade with the players in the Underworld.

The Deep Cave was still too small, and the Dwarves of Black Rock City were too few, unable to meet the growing demand of the expanding players for trade.

Therefore, since the players' numbers exceeded a hundred thousand, they mainly used the Deep Cave as a springboard to trade with the already allied Silent City State Alliance.

Under such circumstances, a smooth trade route was particularly important.

Though Rivendell also had an entrance to the Underworld, it was still too remote.

Currently, players trading with the Silent City State Alliance either needed to pass through the complex, winding subterranean lake systems of the Deep Cave or take the long-distance teleportation array of Black Rock City...

However, the transportation capacity of teleportation arrays was limited.

It was feasible for transporting people during critical times, but when it came to goods, the consumption of Magic Stones was too high.

Storing goods in a storage space was also not viable.

The consumption of Magic Stones was even greater when teleporting a storage space magic tool filled with goods than directly transporting goods...

This involved the influence of spatial laws.

So... being able to establish a direct trade route to the Silent City State Alliance was extremely important.

At this point, no one in the Mengmeng Committee questioned Little Xian Miao's decision anymore.

To say nothing of anything else, just collecting tolls from owning this passage could make them rich hands over!

Don't be deceived by the fact that the Nature's Heart Guild gained the cooperation of Dwarves, shining brilliantly.

Their guild did the most trade among all player guilds.

And in the future, if they wanted more convenient trade, they would likely have to choose this trade route too.

In a way, the bright future of the Mengmeng Committee was already destined.

Although they had a good relationship with the Nature's Heart Guild, there was still an element of competition.

Previously, the Mengmeng Committee had secured their hold over the Nature's Heart Guild through the property of the City of the Chosen, and now it seemed they could rely on the trade route to keep the upper hand in the future.

The one who controlled the trade route was the boss.

Having figured this out, the players of the Mengmeng Committee were even more enthusiastic.

Even though the environment here was not as good as the Elf Forest, and even though there was currently nothing here, their hearts were still filled with hope.

Then, the bustling city-building efforts officially began.

The main building materials for the city were stones obtained after blowing up the mountain by Little Xian Miao.

It was also a way of utilizing waste.

Don't be dismissive, the effect was quite good!

The reason the Dark Mountain Range was called the Dark Mountain Range was that it was rich in Obsidian deposits.

And in the Segis World, this stone material, which shares its name with Bluestar's Obsidian, was a good construction and Magic material in itself.

Of course, Segis World's Obsidian was different from Bluestar's Obsidian.

Even though they both resembled black glass, Segis World's Obsidian was much tougher.

Under the effect of Magic, Obsidian could not only be used as building material but could also be directly transformed into city walls.

And the city walls constructed with this material would have even better effects when casting Divine Arts defense barriers.

Sandstorm City in the Death Desert was an example.

In fact, if the Dark Mountain Range were not relatively remote from the Human World, and if it had not originally been within the territory of the Half-Beasts, some forces among humans would have already found a way to enter the mountain and mine the stone.

*For this... it could only be said that even the harshest environment had its own merits.*

*It was a matter of whether you could uncover them.*

*At this point, players couldn't help but lament that this Half-Beast race... really lay atop a treasure mountain without knowing it.*