A Level 181 Hegemon Palace warrior stepped out of the crowd and waved his sword. He said, "What kind of stupid logic is that? You think you’re the boss of Sky City? You think you can have the A4 instance all to yourself just because it’s closer to your territory? Dream on! The A Rank instances are the shared property of every player in Sky City, and Hegemon Palace will be the first to dispute your claim!"

"Yeah! Who are you to make us pay 10 gold to get inside? Pooh!"

The warrior’s party members immediately voiced their agreement. Hegemon Palace had sent 25 players or 5 parties to challenge the instance, and each of them was over Level 180 and a fairly strong player in their own right. Unfortunately, I highly doubted that they were strong enough to give Sword Lord of Jianghu a challenge without their experts, Little Piglet and Shangguan Wan’er.

Murmurs of dissatisfaction rippled across the crowd. Hegemon Palace’s plan to rile up the crowd seemed to be working because they started approaching Sword Lord of Jianghu players. Some of them even had their weapons drawn already. There were a ton of guilds who staked their...