Chapter 1 Arranging the Assassin Alliance

After arranging the affairs of the Assassin Alliance, Nie Yan checked the level榜. Tang Yao was currently level 25, and Po Tian was level 24. Although the level difference between the two had remained around one level, the gap seemed to be widening.

"You're out?" Tang Yao sent a message to Nie Yan.

"Yeah, finally out."

"Want to join us in grinding Scale Frogs?"

"I have some things to take care of. You guys continue. Anyway, it seems like grinding Scale Frogs gives quite a lot of experience," Nie Yan said. He didn't need much time to catch up with the people on the level榜. It didn't matter if he leveled up a few days later. He wanted to level up his Lockpicking skill first; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to open locked treasure chests in high-level maps.

The guild warehouse was full of level 30 equipment. He and Tang Yao had obtained this equipment from grinding lately, plus the equipment dropped previously, totaling over 500 pieces. Tang Yao and the others, especially, had grinded elite Scale Frogs for seven or eight days, killing at least dozens each day, and they had dropped nearly 300 to almost 400 pieces.

This terrifying amount left the players speechless, but what made them a little depressed was that they were still far from level 30! The guild still didn't have enough low-level equipment!

Nie Yan went to various places to train his Lockpicking skill, partly to train his skill and partly to get more low-level equipment for the guild. He also needed to collect the remaining Chapters of Order.

"What are you busy with?" Tang Yao asked, surprised.

"I just got a Lockpicking skill, but it's only beginner level. I want to level it up a bit before going to high-level maps."

"I see, alright then."

"Has your red name been cleared?"

"It's gone, but I still haven't gotten the Maniac Killer Medal."

"Looks like you're not lucky enough. Forget it then." Nie Yan was very puzzled. The Maniac Killer Medal definitely dropped from Scale Frogs, so why didn't Tang Yao get it? Could it be that Tang Yao's red name wasn't strong enough? That's not right, he had killed nearly a hundred people!

Sometimes luck comes and you can't stop it, and sometimes when luck is too bad, you can only feel helpless and depressed.

Nie Yan went to the Starry Night Potion Shop again and upgraded it to level 4. Also, over at Niao Bu Sheng Dan's place, he had already recruited a large number of production class players such as alchemists, scroll crafters, and disposers. Basically, all the master-level production class players whose names were well-known in his previous life had received invitations from the Starry Night Potion Shop. The financial resources of the Starry Night Potion Shop were truly tempting to them. Some people had directly signed contracts, while others were still waiting to see. After all, just because the Starry Night Potion Shop was popular, it didn't necessarily mean that it would be popular when it switched to other industries. However, after receiving invitations from the Starry Night Potion Shop, they would not easily accept invitations from other guilds for the time being. They would wait and see.

The rapid expansion of financial resources made Nie Yan very happy, but he also felt a sense of crisis. The land in several cities had been snapped up. In fact, the land he had purchased accounted for less than 3% of the entire Greenland Empire. Fortunately, these plots of land were relatively valuable. If their value was calculated in the future, the total value might reach about 30% of all commercial land in Greenland. It could be seen that a lot of land had fallen into the hands of major guilds, teams, or individuals.

In fact, the most profitable thing in *Faith* was not land, but important military facilities in the future: fortresses!

A fortress was equivalent to the guild residence of each guild. There were also various commercial shops inside, allowing ordinary players to trade inside. The guild would collect taxes on various transactions inside, manage the fortress, and also allocate houses to players, etc.

Therefore, many guilds would rather invest a lot of energy into the guild warehouse to promote the development of the guild, rather than spend too much money to buy land. After all, waiting for land to appreciate was a very long process, while if the guild developed, what they would get in the future would not be a piece of land, but a fortress city!

"Did Daitou Dage Qi Zai and the others get me a few Random Teleportation Scrolls?" Nie Yan sent a message to Guo Huai and asked.

"Two."

"Mail them to my personal warehouse."

"Okay."

Nie Yan felt that there were too many things he had to do, and he felt like he couldn't handle them all. There were many things he could do after rebirth, but he couldn't do them all at once. He could only pick some things to do and try to improve his strength as much as possible.

After Nie Yan got the Random Teleportation Scrolls, he teleported to Link Town. He avoided the players' sight, left the town, and walked into the deep mountains and forests. It wasn't that he was afraid of these ordinary players, but because if he was followed, it would be too troublesome.

The destination was a cave in a canyon in a level 20 map. There was a Chapter of Wisdom there. The Chapter of Wisdom was guarded by a Hellfire. Every two hours, the Hellfire would fall asleep for two minutes. Taking advantage of this period to bypass the Hellfire and get the Chapter of Wisdom, two minutes was not enough for him to retreat safely, so he could directly use the Random Teleportation Scroll to escape.

With the Random Teleportation Scroll, it was much easier to get the Chapters of Order.

However, the Chapter of Wisdom was a mage item, and its bonus effect was relatively strong for mages, so it was useless to Nie Yan. Like the previous Chapter of Courage and Chapter of Freedom, the Chapter of Courage was more suitable for warriors who charged forward with great fanfare, while the Chapter of Freedom was an item for thieves.

Dreamlike Canyon had always been a holy land for players from level 10 to level 20 to level up. A team of six people was grinding monsters and leveling up here: a Holy Knight, a Priest, and four mages.

"Gan Zhe, where do you think our boss is leveling up? He's leveling up too fast. The gap between him and Po Tian, who is second, is getting wider and wider," said a Holy Knight wearing silver-white armor. He looked about twenty-two or twenty-three years old and gave people a very clean and tidy feeling.

Knight's Elegy: Level 16, member of the Niu Ren Tribe guild, guild contribution value 800.

This guy was called the Water King by the players of the Niu Ren Tribe. He was the most active in the guild group chat, spamming the group chat every day when he had nothing to do, but he had a very good relationship with the people in the guild, so Guo Huai promoted him to a small captain.

"Who knows? Our boss is awesome enough. I heard that there are now more than sixty players following behind Po Tian to train him, constantly using AoE magic to grind monsters and level up. The leveling speed is extremely fast, but they still can't catch up with our boss, and our boss is getting further and further ahead. Our boss is a god! Do you know what it means to be a dragon that appears and disappears? If he was so easily known, he wouldn't be the boss," Gan Zhe said. As an arcane mage, he had a blind worship for Tang Yao, who had always firmly occupied the top spot on the level榜.

"Let's hurry up and level up. When I reach level 30, I guess I can wear a set of silver equipment. If my guild contribution value is a little higher, I might even be able to wear gold equipment. The boss is too awesome. It's so difficult for us to get a piece of silver equipment. It's good enough to have bronze equipment. He actually got so much silver and gold equipment," Knight's Elegy said with emotion.

"The boss is definitely grinding sub-elites or elites! Sub-elites and elites usually drop silver and gold. We can't even deal with an elite, so we can only detour. We can barely deal with a leader, so of course we only get bronze equipment," Gan Zhe said. Only occasionally was there a piece of silver equipment when grinding leaders, and the attributes were not particularly good, so the equipment that Tang Yao dropped was attractive to the players. Now the entire Niu Ren Tribe was holding their breath to level up and increase their guild contribution.

"There's a leader wild boar!"

"Knight, hurry up!" Gan Zhe said. There were no warriors in the team, so Knight's Elegy could only tank. Fortunately, the priest in the team had learned beginner healing, plus four mages, so dealing with the leader was no problem.

"Alright!" Knight's Elegy added a few buffs to himself, charged up, and swung his sword down.

The Holy Knight's ability to tank monsters was slightly weaker than that of a warrior, but not by much, but his ability to attract aggro was not as professional, which was why the Holy Knight had never been able to replace the warrior.

It took Knight's Elegy a long time to stabilize the aggro.

"Output all out!"

"Heal!"

These players were quite decent when grinding monsters. The four mages were pouring firepower on the wild boar leader, and damage values were popping up above the wild boar leader's head.

For them, the level 15 wild boar leader was not too difficult to deal with. As long as they were careful, they could take it down in two or three minutes, and they would get a piece of bronze equipment.

They were immersed in the joy of getting the equipment soon.

"Damn, it must drop a piece of arcane mage equipment. I haven't seen arcane mage equipment for two days!" Gan Zhe shouted, casting magic spells.

"It's going to be the Holy Knight's. I've always had good luck," the knight said happily.

"I say, Knight, you're too ruthless, aren't you? You've gotten at least three pieces of your bronze equipment from yesterday to today!" Gan Zhe said unhappily.

Just as they were in a good mood, preparing to collect the equipment, a few figures appeared on the distant high slope.

A chill rose from his back, and Knight's Elegy immediately felt bad.

"Damn, it's a thief, heal quickly!" He immediately retreated backwards, and a white light fell on him, restoring a lot of health. He immediately activated a mitigation skill to avoid being stunned by the thief. Mitigation was a skill shared by Holy Knights and warriors, and it was because of this skill that they were not afraid of thieves!

"Damn it, who's shameless enough to come and steal our monster!" Gan Zhe carefully watched the movements around him.

Knight's Elegy ran backwards, pulling the wild boar leader further and further away.

On the distant high slope, eight players ran towards this side. They were leveling up in the distance and rushed over immediately after receiving the thief's message.

"There's a leader monster!" a mage said excitedly.

"But it's theirs."

"What are you afraid of? Let's snatch it!"

A warrior among the eight players charged forward and intercepted the wild boar leader.

"Damn it, it's someone from Triumph!" Knight's Elegy cursed, his eyes tearing apart. The wild boar leader that they had worked so hard to find and reduce to half health was snatched away like this. How could they be willing!