Chapter 1 Some Excellent Demonstrations

Shi Feng’s demonstration level was a bit too high, coupled with his stern requirements.

Shuang Keke and Melancholy Smile both looked exceptionally serious.

Shi Feng's forging technique was clearly honed through countless trials; it simply wasn't something they, with their limited forging experience, could compare to. However, they had gleaned some tricks.

Subsequently, the two went to their respective forging tables, picked up materials, and fell into contemplation, as if enlightened.

"As expected of future forging masters," Shi Feng said, smiling slightly as he watched them.

Current forging players simply didn't have enough materials to practice with, let alone use precious materials to create items.

But Shi Feng was different. In his ten years in God's Domain, he had been in contact with many forging masters. These people loved to talk about forging in their spare time. At their level, it couldn't be described as playing around, but rather research. With so much exposure and countless materials for practice, he naturally became skilled through practice. In terms of talent, he couldn't compare to the two before him; after all, he was a combat and adventure player.

All he could do was demonstrate the techniques he had heard from those masters and understood himself.

Although the help wouldn't be too significant, it would be enough to let them know their shortcomings.

Currently, most players had a decent success rate in making whetstones, but making one out of five attempts was considered good. In terms of success rate, at least 40% was expected, making two out of five sets of materials. If the technique was good enough, making three was normal.

Although the Starflow Trading Firm's forging room couldn't compare to the Forging Association's intermediate forging room, it was much better than a beginner's forging room, giving a bonus of over 5% for crafting ordinary items like whetstones.

That's why Shi Feng required them to make two out of five sets of materials.

After the two pondered for a while, they finally began to craft.

Three minutes later, both of them created their first whetstone, revealing delighted expressions, and handed them to Shi Feng for inspection.

"Failed product, and this one too," Shi Feng said, shaking his head after checking the data. Both whetstones were inferior and had no effect.

Shuang Keke and Melancholy Smile were slightly disappointed and fell into contemplation again. They both knew that they didn't have many chances left. If they didn't make two whetstones out of the remaining four sets of materials, they would be kicked out.

After one failure, the two spent even more time thinking. After more than ten minutes of contemplation, they both did something that surprised Shi Feng.

That was using up four sets of materials in one go, and their crafting speed was even faster. After they finished, the two smiled at each other and placed the crafted whetstones on the table for Shi Feng to inspect.

"You really are surprising; you actually succeeded in three out of four," Shi Feng said, astonished after seeing the displayed data. "Very good. From today onward, you are official members of the Skytouch Alliance. This is the contract. If there are no problems, just sign it."

"Skytouch Alliance?"

"Isn't it the Starflow Trading Firm?"

Shuang Keke and Melancholy Smile were both surprised after seeing the contract. They had come for the Starflow Trading Firm, known for its vast wealth and unlimited resources.

However, after reading the contract, they found that the terms were exceptionally good. Even Shuang Keke, who had been in the Assassin Alliance, was very tempted. Not only were unlimited materials and blueprints provided, but they also received a high commission of 15% on the items they crafted, along with a guaranteed monthly salary of two thousand Credits. Unlike other guilds, which only offered a 5% commission and a small guaranteed salary, and provided limited materials, with good materials generally reserved for more skilled forgers, leaving them with insufficient materials.

"I can't tell you the specific relationship between the Skytouch Alliance and the Starflow Trading Firm, but I can tell you one thing: the Skytouch Alliance is a lifestyle guild, not the adventure combat guilds you usually see. It's completely focused on lifestyle players, and in the future, the Skytouch Alliance's sales channels will become wider and wider. Not only the Starflow Trading Firm, but all cities in the Star-Moon Kingdom will have our products for sale. And you don't have to worry about materials at all. As long as you can craft enough good items, you won't have to worry about selling them," Shi Feng said with a faint smile. "Of course, you can also choose to go to the Starflow Trading Firm. The choice is yours."

Shuang Keke and Melancholy Smile were both silent. Undoubtedly, the Starflow Trading Firm had more promising prospects at the moment, and they had never even heard of the Skytouch Alliance, let alone a guild focused on lifestyle professions.

"I'm willing to join the Skytouch Alliance," Shuang Keke signed the contract readily.

Melancholy Smile shook her head, feeling that Shuang Keke was too naive, but she also took the contract and signed her name.

The reason she joined the Skytouch Alliance was the man before her, who was not only the chief forger of the Star-Moon Kingdom but also had a close relationship with the Starflow Trading Firm. It could be said that the Starflow Trading Firm wouldn't have such a fiery presence without the high-grade whetstones.

The most important point was the future potential.

"Good. Now that you've signed the contract, you're officially members of the Skytouch Alliance. From now on, you can freely use the forging room here. If you don't have enough materials, just notify Anna, and she will provide you with the materials. All you need to do is focus on advancing as forgers," Shi Feng said with a smile.

With the addition of two forging masters, the future of the Skytouch Alliance was even more promising.

At the same time, Shi Feng also had Melancholy Smile act as the temporary manager, managing the Skytouch Alliance while also scouting for talented and promising forgers and alchemists from the Starflow Trading Firm. After all, Shi Feng was only the acting guild leader, and the forgers and alchemists of the Starflow Trading Firm belonged to Starflow, not the Skytouch Alliance.

Once Shi Feng completed his mission, Starflow would no longer have anything to do with him, and he wouldn't be able to sell any items in the Starflow Trading Firm anymore. In other words, he was severing ties with Starflow, so he naturally had to pull over some players with potential.

Subsequently, Shi Feng put the Beginner Mana Armor Plates on sale on the second floor of Starflow.

A Beginner Mana Armor Plate was priced at 20 silver coins, a price comparable to a level 10 Bronze equipment. Ordinary players couldn't afford it at all, but Shi Feng didn't care because he wasn't worried about not being able to sell them; he was only afraid they would sell too quickly, so he set the price a little higher.

After dealing with the Mana Armor Plates, Shi Feng continued to return to the forging room to forge Beginner Mana Armor Plates. Six hundred Beginner Mana Armor Plates were not enough to fill the gaps in eight cities; he needed to make even more.

Not to mention that the mountain of thirty thousand gold coins was still pressing down on Shi Feng.

Moreover, in the past few days, various guilds had begun to research high-grade whetstones because Shi Feng had made too much money with high-grade whetstones, which made all the guilds envious. They were trying to get the blueprints by any means necessary. It had to be said that the power of guilds was strong. Soon, they found the source of the high-grade whetstones and even obtained the blueprints.

Moonlight Grove.

This place was full of treasures. In addition to treasure chests and wild Bosses, the drop rate of gems was also much higher than in other maps. The big guilds of White River City had long since completely regarded this place as an ATM, constantly earning a large amount of wealth. Free players couldn't grab even a bit of resources.

"Guild Leader Weiwo, the intermediate forging apprentices in our guild have successfully created high-grade whetstones, and the intermediate alchemy apprentices have also created intermediate recovery and mana potions," a ranger reported.

"Well done. Tonight is the day White River City opens its market. It's a good opportunity to let the other guilds see the strength of our Dark Star," Weiwo Dukuang said with a satisfied smile. After seeing Starflow earn a massive fortune before, he had long been impatient. Now that his guild also had high-grade whetstones and intermediate potions to earn wealth, his plan to dominate White River City was one step closer.