Chapter 1 The Star-Moon Kingdom, Zero Wing City

When Shi Feng returned to the guild's first-floor lobby, it was packed with guild members. They were either actively accepting quests or exchanging items from the guild warehouse. At a glance, their levels were all uniformly above Level 50. Some even wore the Zero Wing core member badge, second-tier players leading groups of the guild's elite members to raid team dungeons.

The entire hall was enveloped in a thriving atmosphere, a complete contrast to how it was before he entered the Ice Crystal World.

After observing the situation in the guild hall for a while, Shi Feng went straight to Candlelight Trading Firm.

Walking on the streets of Zero Wing City, there were noticeably more players than before he left. Especially the merchant players coming and going, and even some casual players in virtual attire chatting and laughing on the streets, clearly treating Zero Wing City as a place to enjoy life.

Besides merchant players and casual players, the most common were expert players from various kingdoms and empires.

Even just walking on the street, there were dozens of experts above Level 53, and even the very rare second-tier players could be seen once or twice, something that couldn't even be encountered in Icewind City.

However, the biggest difference in Zero Wing City was the constant stream of carriages on the street. These trade carriages all belonged to NPC merchants, and many were high-level transport carriages. The more merchant carriages there were, the more prosperous the city.

When prosperity reached a certain level, as long as the city's security level met the standards, it could start upgrading from a beginner city to an intermediate city.

In Shi Feng's view, the current level of prosperity was not far from being promoted to an intermediate city.

If a beginner city wants to be promoted to an intermediate city, it first looks at its reputation. If the city's reputation is unknown, it can be judged by the NPC merchants on the street. This is also the basis for major guilds to collect information about other guild cities. Generally, if the number of high-level transport carriages accounts for half, it indicates that it already has the reputation to be promoted to an intermediate city.

Now the high-level transport carriages on the street have reached about one-third, which is not far from half.

This rapid development speed can be said to have exceeded Shi Feng's expectations.

When the reputation is sufficient, Zero Wing City, with its Four Element Tower, can immediately be promoted to an intermediate city.

"If only Silverwing Town and Lost Town could be promoted so quickly." Shi Feng looked at the street outside the window, feeling deeply moved.

It must be said that having the first guild city in the Star-Moon Kingdom has too many advantages. Coupled with high-level defensive buildings like the Four Element Tower, it is difficult for Zero Wing City to slow down.

However, Silverwing Town and Lost Town in the neutral maps do not have such advantages.

After a journey of less than ten minutes, Shi Feng quickly arrived at the Candlelight Trading Firm. At this time, the Candlelight Trading Firm was still as lively as ever, and even now there were still many lifestyle players signing up to become lifestyle players of the Candlelight Trading Firm.

"Guild Leader, you're back." Melancholic Smile, who was busy recruiting new people in the second-floor hall, looked at Shi Feng walking up and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Yes, how are Zero Wing City and Candlelight Trading Firm doing now?" Shi Feng nodded slightly as he looked at Melancholic Smile walking over. When he noticed the Forging Master badge Melancholic Smile was wearing, he was immediately surprised and said, "You've advanced to Master?"

"I only managed to advance to Forging Master yesterday. I have to thank you, Guild Leader, for having Lone Nine Extremes and the others send over a large number of rare materials, which allowed me to conduct a large number of experiments and finally create new equipment." Although Melancholic Smile said this, she still felt a little proud in her heart. After all, Vocational Master is a natural chasm, and too many people have been stuck in advanced vocations, and they still have no clue about creating new items.

"Since you have already advanced to Forging Master, then I will give you these design drawings." Shi Feng immediately took out a few design drawings from his backpack.

These design drawings were all obtained from the Ice and Snow Ruins, one is a Level 50 Dark-Gold weapon, the Zokum Blade, one is a Level 50 Fine-Gold plate armor gauntlet, and the other is a Level 50 Dark-Gold cloth armor robe.

After Melancholic Smile saw these design drawings, the whole person was stunned, and her eyes were completely fixed on the Zokum Blade and the Fine-Gold plate armor gauntlet.

"Guild Leader, can I really learn them?" Melancholic Smile said somewhat excitedly.

If it was a Mithril-grade forging design drawing, she, who had become a Forging Master, might not even bother to look at it, but a Fine-Gold-grade design drawing above Level 50 was different, because forging these weapons and equipment requires different techniques, material combinations, and how to maximize the best effect of the materials.

To put it bluntly, forging weapons and equipment depends on how far the forger can bring out the raw materials.

Weapons and equipment like Bronze and Black Iron grade make very clumsy use of the properties of raw materials, and the higher the grade, the better the effect, and when you get to Dark-Gold grade, it's simply a true work of art, with almost perfect material matching.

If you want to create such weapons and equipment, you need to constantly study Fine-Gold and Dark-Gold forging design drawings above Level 50. Not to mention the weapons and equipment that the design drawings themselves produce.

However, design drawings of this level are very rare, and it is extremely difficult to learn them. So far, the Candlelight Trading Firm only has Fine-Gold-grade design drawings obtained from Titan City, and no other design drawings of such a high level.

"Of course, if any tailor in the Candlelight Trading Firm becomes a Master, the design drawing of that Dark-Gold cloth armor robe will be his." Shi Feng smiled. Melancholic Smile's gratitude made him feel that besides obtaining various rare materials, obtaining high-level design drawings for lifestyle players in the Ice Crystal World was also a major advantage. It would be good to have Lone Nine Extremes send over the high-level design drawings he found in the future.

"Thank you, Guild Leader. I guarantee that I will soon create weapons and equipment that will satisfy you." Melancholic Smile put away the design drawings, her eyes full of joy.

After that, Melancholic Smile began to report the recent events of the Zero Wing Guild to Shi Feng.

It has to be said that the Zero Wing Guild has developed very rapidly since it had Zero Wing City and Silverwing Town. Currently, the number of elite guild members has exceeded 240,000, and the number of expert players is as high as more than 7,000, which is no different from other first-rate guilds.

Moreover, the number of players in Zero Wing City has reached 5 million during this period, which is not far from White River City. The city entrance fee alone is a huge income every day.

However, the surge in the number of guild members has also greatly increased the guild's consumption, especially the construction of Silverwing Town. Because of the occasional attacks and harassment by the Evil God's Temple and some dark forces, a large number of defensive buildings have to be built in Silverwing Town. In addition, there is the compensation for the loss of guild members. Almost all the money earned by the guild has been invested, which means that the entire guild can only barely operate now.

But thanks to Silverwing Town, their Zero Wing Guild has gained a lot in the Ancient Divine Relics, especially the number of players entering the Ancient City is increasing.

Hearing these good news made Shi Feng, who was still a little worried about collecting fire resistance equipment, feel a lot more relaxed.

Now that there are so many expert players in the guild, even if some are separated to specifically collect fire resistance equipment, it is not a big problem for the Zero Wing Guild, at least it will not affect the development of the main force.

As for the problem of insufficient guild funds, after Shi Feng took out a backpack of rare materials and piled them up into small hills in the Candlelight Warehouse, Melancholic Smile didn't know what to say.

The number of these rare materials was much more than the two times Lone Nine Extremes had sent before…

With so many rare materials, just selling them is a lot of money, not to mention making them into goods for sale, especially since some of these materials are for making Mithril-grade weapons and equipment above Level 50. If they are made and sold, that's called counting money until your hands cramp.

"By the way, Guild Leader, I have an item here from Tianji Pavilion. They said they must hand it over to you personally, but you have been away, and they have come many times, so I accepted it for you first." Melancholic Smile said and took out a black gift box from her backpack and handed it directly to Shi Feng.

"Tianji Pavilion gave me something?" Shi Feng couldn't help but take it curiously, and then opened the gift box.