Shibuya

Shibuya (シブヤ) is one of the five main cities (五大都市 go daitoshi) on the Yamato server. The others are Akiba, Minami, Susukino, and Nakasu.

Overview
Shibuya is the newest of the five cities on the Japanese server and was created with the intention of dispersing some of the players in Akiba. As a result, Shibuya lacks a Guild Meeting Hall, Bank, and Market, as guilds use the facilities of the other four cities instead. Heavily dependent on the transport gates, the city was essentially paralyzed after the Catastrophe. Many of the Adventurers based there left for Akiba, and very few remain.

Players generally have to pass through seven or eight zones to travel from Akiba to Shibya. The shortest route traverses four zone, but the way is arduous.

Noosphere arc
Right around the first year anniversary of the Catastrophe, the Genius Taliktan transforms Shibuya from a player city into a full raid zone filled with high-level raid monsters that seem to have originated from the Moon server. He settles on the old NHK communications tower, which the Round Table Alliance wished to use to communicate with the third party dwelling on the Moon, and transforms it into the Fort of Calling (Calling Fortress).

From there, Taliktan summoned Eternal Moths and Moon Rabbits every night, spreading them across all of Yamato and even into the neighboring Zhongyuan server. The Moths are particularly dangerous for both adventurers and People of the Earth alike; Moths spawn by the thousands and their sparking dust puts those with less resistance to their pollen into a deep sleep from which they are unable to wake.

To combat this threat, Shiroe organizes the Shibuya Raid Team, plus Li Gan, to clear the communications tower dungeon. However, Shiroe is conflicted about whether it is better for the adventurers to attempt to return home or protect their new home — the NHK building houses the only known means to contact the Travelers on the moon, and if it is lost, than the only means of getting home might also be lost. His indecision dooms the first attempt to failure. Some members fall, and the remainder are forced to retreat.

However, after receiving a pep talk from his companions, Shiroe resolves to do both, and sets his mind on what to do. the Shibuya Raid Team regroups and plan a way to not only destroy the nest but also to save the means to contact the moon. They manage to take down Taliktan, disperse the Eternal Moths, and save the communication tower.

Even after Taliktan's defeat, however, Shibuya has been permanently changed into a raid zone. Shiroe later contacts William about it, who decides to pay it a visit with his guild.