Chapter 1 Setting Up a Guild

The task board in the Adventurer's Association's first-floor lobby was crowded with players accepting quests.

Although these quests didn't give much experience, they offered a lot of guild honor, and you could only do three guild quests each day.

Accumulating guild honor to a certain level allowed you to advance, gaining more guild benefits, such as bonus experience from leveling up and doing quests.

"Excuse me, sir, is there anything I can help you with?" The blue-haired lady at the association's counter looked at Shi Feng with a smile.

"I want to establish a guild," Shi Feng said.

"Okay, please fill out the application form here." The counter lady directly issued Shi Feng a guild application form.

Applying to establish a God's Domain guild was simple. Just confirm the guild name, determine the guild emblem, then pay 10 copper coins to buy the guild signature book, get more than seven signatures from free players, and the guild could be established.

Newly applied guilds were all one-star guilds, and the only benefit was being able to do guild quests.

"Guild name?" Shi Feng hesitated when he saw the place to fill in the guild name, unsure of what to call it. After thinking for a while, he decided to use the name of Zero Wing Workshop. Anyway, as the guild developed, its reputation would grow, and his identity would be exposed sooner or later, so a little more time didn't matter. "Then let's call it Zero Wing."

Afterward, Shi Feng designed the guild emblem to be a silver six-winged shape.

After purchasing the guild signature book, Shi Feng sent guild signature invitations to Fire Dance and the others.

In the Blackwind Canyon, which was for levels 20 to 25, Fire Dance and the others were farming level 22 demon bats, which was also Shi Feng's suggestion.

The demon bats of Blackwind Canyon had high attack power but low health. Most importantly, the monsters were densely packed, usually appearing in groups of seven or eight, making it easy for solo free players to die. However, for teams with powerful group attacks, this place was a leveling holy land.

Fire Dance, with her extreme speed, would lure the monsters, bringing in hundreds at a time. The Guardian Knight, Cola, would activate Protection Blessing and use Sacrifice to pull the monsters together, Ziyan Liuyun would heal, and finally, Heizi would resolve everything with one move.

The coordination and timing of the group were perfect.

If other players saw this, they would probably be dumbfounded and speechless.

Currently, the average level of players was only around level twelve, and the high-level players were only level thirteen. The highest level on the White River City level leaderboard was Unyielding Soul, who had reached level fifteen.

However, Fire Dance and the others had long surpassed level 15. Even the lowest-level Oracle, Gluttonous Mouse, was level 18. The highest level among them was Heizi, who had reached level 19 and 45%. Although it seemed like only one level more, the experience difference was huge, enough for a player to go directly from level 0 to over level fifteen.

This kind of level gap was enough to cause a sensation among all the players in White River City.

"Hmm, what's this message?"

Fire Dance and the others, who were resting, received an invitation almost simultaneously. It was a guild signature invitation. Once they agreed, they would become members of this guild after it was established.

Originally, Fire Dance and the others wanted to reject it directly, but when they saw the guild name, they stopped their actions.

"Zero Wing, isn't that our workshop's name?" Heizi asked strangely.

"This invitation was sent by Brother Yefeng. Brother Yefeng is officially going to build a guild," Ziyan Liuyun said happily after looking at the signature, Yefeng. "That's great, we'll have our own guild in the future."

"But isn't it too early to establish a guild now? We only have so few people. Brother Feng also said before that there weren't enough people and we had to wait a while. Did something happen?" Heizi was surprised because this was different from the plan they discussed before.

"Let's not worry about that for now, let's sign first." Fire Dance was also surprised, but since Shi Feng had done this, he must have his own considerations, and it wouldn't be bad to establish a guild earlier.

While the others were talking, they clicked to agree one after another.

Soon, everyone heard a system notification.

System: Congratulations, you have become a member of the Zero Wing Guild.

System: Player has joined a guild for the first time, opening the guild system.

On the other side, Shi Feng also left the Adventurer's Association and returned to Starstreak Trading Firm.

At this time, Starstreak Trading Firm was crowded with people; it could be said that it was the most lively place in White River City, without exception.

"Brother, I see you've come to buy Basic Mana Armor Plates, but there are too many people buying this thing. Just queuing up will probably take a week. But I have a way to let you buy Basic Mana Armor Plates in advance without wasting a lot of time." A thin swordsman was chatting with the players queuing up at the entrance of Starstreak Trading Firm.

"That's great." One player was clearly interested.

"Of course, a Basic Mana Armor Plate costs 20 silver coins, just pay an extra 2 silver coins, and you can avoid the long wait," the thin swordsman said with a smile.

"Okay, take me there, it's just an extra 2 silver coins, our team isn't short of that little money."

Then that player went to the second floor with that thin swordsman, without having to wait on the first floor.

"There really is all kinds of business." Shi Feng couldn't help but sigh after seeing this.

Basic Mana Armor Plates were in short supply, but only fifty were sold each day, destined for only a very small portion of players to be able to buy them, while others could only look on.

But there was no way around it, Shi Feng couldn't put all his energy into Basic Mana Armor Plates, he still had many things to do.

Basic Mana Armor Plates were just items for him to build his reputation.

Not a real money-making tool.

After that, Shi Feng entered the fourth-floor forging room and began to make the Arcane Light Shield.

During this crucial period, various guilds were considering how to get the first clear of the fifty-person team dungeon, and the MT's (main tank) equipment became extremely important, especially shields. Not to mention excellent mithril shields like the Arcane Light Shield.

As long as Shi Feng put it up for sale, there would definitely be many guilds willing to spend a lot of money to buy it.

So, the sooner the Arcane Light Shield was made, the higher its value.

However, as a mithril-grade forging item, the success rate of making it was extremely low.

Ordinary advanced forging apprentices only had a 2% success rate, which meant that there was a chance to successfully make two out of a hundred attempts, but the reality was that you might not even make one out of a hundred.

However, Shi Feng had the *Forging Book*, the Black Iron Emblem, and Ice-Blue Devil Flames, all of which increased the success rate.

But the success rate was only around 20%. Plus, Shi Feng wasn't very skilled, so the success rate was probably much lower than 20%.

If he advanced to a Basic Forger, the normal success rate could be increased to 5%, which wasn't a big help. Unless he became an Advanced Forger, that would be of some help, increasing the success rate to 10%. With auxiliary tools and so on, the success rate could reach 30%.

However, the time it took to become an Advanced Forger was too long. Shi Feng couldn't afford to wait, so he could only try it first. Anyway, he had a lot of materials, and he could try again if he failed.