Chapter 1 Finally Succeeded!

“Finally!” Shi Feng couldn’t help but feel excited when he heard the system notification.

Intermediate Forging Grandmaster!

This was a major watershed for blacksmiths. In God’s Domain, although it was extremely difficult to become a Grandmaster, with a huge player base, there were still some players who reached the Grandmaster level.

However, most of these Grandmaster-level players were stuck at the Beginner Grandmaster level. Only by becoming an Intermediate Grandmaster could they truly be valued by the major superpowers. Ordinary Beginner Grandmasters were only qualified to join the major superpowers.

This was because only Intermediate Forging Grandmasters could create powerful war weapons. In addition, they could guarantee the creation of top-quality Dark-Gold weapons and equipment for expert players. After all, even for Dark-Gold weapons and equipment, there were differences in basic attributes and attached effects.

It was like standardized equipment. Although it was also Dark-Gold, standardized weapons and equipment were much worse than Dark-Gold equipment of the same level, only slightly stronger than Fine-Gold equipment of the same level.

Moreover, becoming an Intermediate Forging Grandmaster meant having the ability to create Epic-level weapons and equipment. Unlike Beginner Grandmasters, who could only create very ordinary Dark-Gold weapons and equipment, the success rate for top-quality Dark-Gold weapons and equipment would be greatly reduced. As for Epic-level weapons and equipment, there was only a chance of success. In reality, even superpowers could not afford such consumption. However, with Intermediate Forging Grandmasters, the cost was at least within the acceptable range for superpowers.

For Shi Feng, the most important thing was that becoming an Intermediate Forging Grandmaster gave him the ability to create Guardian Puppets. All that was left was to collect a large number of materials needed to create Guardian Puppets.

As long as there were enough Guardian Puppets, Zero Wing would not only be able to completely protect its Guild Town, but it would also not have to stick to one place. They could completely fight the Evil God’s Temple in the wild, and even capture Ancient Rock City.

Not long after the system notification for becoming an Intermediate Forging Grandmaster ended, another system notification rang in Shi Feng’s ear.

System: Congratulations to player for becoming the first Intermediate Forging Grandmaster in the Star-Moon Kingdom, reward a Silver-grade Forging Treasure Chest, Human Race Reputation +50.

“Silver-grade Forging Treasure Chest?” Shi Feng looked at the silver treasure chest inlaid with five-colored gemstones that suddenly appeared in his bag, his eyes full of astonishment.

Forging Treasure Chests were unfamiliar to current God’s Domain players, but for God’s Domain ten years later, they were the treasure chests that all blacksmiths dreamed of.

As the name suggested, the items that came out of the Forging Treasure Chest were all blacksmith items.

There were forging secret techniques, design drawings, forging tools, and even rumors of strange fires. They were much more precious than the treasure chests seen in God’s Domain. Generally, to obtain one, one had to complete a high-level sub-professional quest.

However, the Forging Treasure Chests that could be obtained were generally Bronze-grade.

As for Silver-grade Forging Treasure Chests, Shi Feng had only heard of them and had never seen one.

He didn’t expect to receive such a reward for becoming the first Intermediate Forging Grandmaster in the kingdom.

Immediately, Shi Feng took out the Silver-grade Forging Treasure Chest, directly activated God’s Grace, and chose to open the Forging Treasure Chest.

As the Forging Treasure Chest slowly opened, five-colored lights bloomed from the treasure chest, illuminating the entire forging room. After the light dissipated, two items appeared in the treasure chest. One was a hammer engraved with deep purple magic patterns, and the other was an old book. Both displayed unknown items.

“This is…”

Shi Feng couldn’t help but activate Omniscient Eyes to start identifying them. When the attributes of the two items were fully displayed, Shi Feng couldn’t help but be surprised.

Demon Refining Hammer, Dark-Gold rank, Durability 200/200, Equipment Requirement: Player must be a Forging Grandmaster, After equipping, player's crafting speed increases by 10%, success rate increases by 5% when crafting items below Epic rank, success rate increases by 2% when crafting Epic-rank items.

Hundred Refinements Gold Design, the Hundred Refinements Gold produced can give weapons and equipment below the Epic level a certain chance to attach a metal enhancement effect, strengthening the item by 10%. One weapon and equipment can only be strengthened once, and players can only equip up to three weapons and equipment with the metal enhancement effect.

“So powerful! No wonder no one mentioned anything about the Silver-grade Forging Treasure Chest in my previous life.” Shi Feng’s eyes lit up as he looked at the Demon Refining Hammer and the Hundred Refinements Gold Design.

Whether it was the Demon Refining Hammer or the Hundred Refinements Gold Design, they were both valuable items, especially the Hundred Refinements Gold Design. This was a top-quality item for strengthening Guild members' weapons and equipment, absolutely priceless. With the Demon Refining Hammer, his success rate when creating items would be higher, which would be of great help to him personally.

Afterward, Shi Feng immediately notified Aqua Rose, telling her to start collecting materials for the Guardian Puppets in large quantities. He himself continued to prepare to create Basic Combat Magic Armor.

Because in the guerrilla warfare between the Black Dragon Empire and the Miracle Guild, the Miracle Guild had no intention of spending manpower to deal with Zero Wing members equipped with Basic Combat Magic Armor, but chose the strategy of attrition with Zero Wing.

This caused Bai Qingxue a lot of headaches.

Although he had been frantically creating Basic Combat Magic Armor to create temporary top experts, he could only create about two hundred pieces of Basic Combat Magic Armor a day. Not to mention the Magic Crystals spent, if Aqua Rose hadn’t arranged for people to start mining the Source Iron Ore Vein, with tens of thousands of Magic Crystals coming in every day, he would have used up the Guild’s stock of Magic Crystals in just one day…

Moreover, he needed to rest and couldn’t continue this high-intensity crafting work continuously.

However, each piece of Basic Combat Magic Armor only lasted for twelve hours. To maintain Zero Wing members' combat during the day, each Tier 2 expert generally needed two to three pieces. In other words, the number of players who could truly fight in the wild all the time was less than a hundred.

Even with a hundred people, scattered across various regions of the vast Black Dragon Empire, the number of experts that could be allocated was not many. The only thing they could do was to select some important leveling maps. As for concentrating Zero Wing Guild members in some maps, that was already impossible, because Zero Wing was constantly expanding, and the existing number of Guild members was already very large. The number of players that a map could accommodate was limited, and excessive concentration would restrict the players' development.

Therefore, in the battles during this period, Zero Wing Guild could be said to have suffered a lot. After all, Zero Wing’s foundation was too weak, and the number of experts could not be compared with Miracle.

So far, Zero Wing had lost more than 10,000 people, while Miracle had lost less than 3,000 people. The difference was obvious. Although he also wanted Fire Dance to lead people to support them, Silverwing Town also needed a large number of experts to hold the line.

This created a very embarrassing situation for Zero Wing.

But now it was better.

Originally, when he created Basic Combat Magic Armor, even with the addition of various auxiliary tools, the success rate was only about half. But now, after becoming an Intermediate Forging Grandmaster, the success rate directly soared to 70%, and the crafting speed was also 25% faster than before, which was equivalent to nearly doubling the speed of crafting Basic Combat Magic Armor.

In other words, he could create four hundred pieces a day, instantly doubling the manpower in the Black Dragon Empire.

Time passed. Shi Feng continued to create Basic Combat Magic Armor. Finally, after spending a day, he created four hundred pieces of Basic Combat Magic Armor, including twenty-one pieces of Enhanced Basic Combat Magic Armor.

“Guild Leader, haven’t the Basic Combat Magic Armor been crafted yet? We’re almost out of Basic Combat Magic Armor. If we don’t replenish them, we’re afraid we’ll collapse completely.” Bai Qingxue suddenly contacted Shi Feng and said.

The battles at the beginning weren’t too intense, but as the battles between the two sides intensified, the experts sent out by the Miracle Guild were also increasing. Zero Wing was now completely at a disadvantage. If they didn’t have Basic Combat Magic Armor, they would be exhausted by the Miracle Guild.

“It’s done, I’ll send it over in a while,” Shi Feng said with a smile.

“It’s done?” Aqua Rose breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Shi Feng say that. “Then I’ll call everyone back now.”

Immediately, Aqua Rose hung up the communication and contacted the Tier 2 members fighting on the front line. Shi Feng also sorted out the Basic Combat Magic Armor he had created, and then contacted Melancholic Smile.

“Melancholic, how’s the crafting going on your side?” Shi Feng asked, looking at Melancholic Smile, who looked very tired on the screen.

“Guild Leader, the difficulty of crafting this Demon-Breaking Ballista is too high. So far, we’ve only crafted sixty Demon-Breaking Ballistas,” Melancholic Smile said somewhat shamefully.

“Sixty?” Shi Feng thought for a moment and said, “It should be enough. Send them over now.”