Chapter 1 The First Advanced Forger

System: Congratulations to the player for being the first to advance to Advanced Forger in God's Domain. Rewarding the player with ten pieces of Mana Gold and 20 million experience points.

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The system notification rang three times in a row, and Shi Feng finally stopped refining.

Advancing from Intermediate Forger to Advanced Forger required nearly twice the proficiency as advancing from Novice to Intermediate, a full 24,000 points.

"That was really tough." Shi Feng suddenly sat down in his chair, finally letting out a sigh of relief. "With this level, I should be able to make the core components of magic devices."

Even if he was making Intermediate Mana Armor Plates, it would have been impossible to complete in just four days. However, Shi Feng had the forging talent that all other forgers dreamed of, 'Forging Genius.' Every time he exceeded expectations during forging, there was a certain chance to gain an additional 2 points of proficiency. This was equivalent to the proficiency gained from forging a high-level item one more time. Coupled with the luck value of the Icarus Heart frequently triggering, he finally became an Advanced Forger.

However, even as an Advanced Forger, the success rate of making core components for magic devices was not high, only about 10%. Becoming a Forging Master, on the other hand, had a 30% chance of success.

But time waited for no one.

Going from Advanced Forger to Forging Master would be very difficult even with the three great tools of the Book of Forging, the Black Iron Emblem, and the Forging Talent. It was no longer just a matter of proficiency and success rate.

Because to become a Forging Master, one had to create weapons and equipment themselves, instead of refining them using design blueprints. The time required was no longer calculated in days, but in months or even years. So even ten years later in God's Domain, players at the Master level were scarce.

Not to mention that Shi Feng had to advance to Tier 2 class in a short period of time, the Tier 2 class assessment alone was not easy. Not to mention the assessment for the Saint Ten Hidden Classes. If he wanted to pass quickly, the stronger he was, the better.

Solomon's Treasure might allow his strength to advance further, so the sooner he completed it, the better.

In these four days, many things had happened in the vast God's Domain. The most noteworthy was the opening of the God-Demon Battlefield in the God-Demon Arena.

The God-Demon Battlefield was a war between players. Players earned points by killing other players in the God-Demon Battlefield and exchanged those points for rewards. There were many rewards, but the main ones were weapons and equipment. The highest reward was the Dark-Gold Set. However, earning those massive points was extremely difficult. Moreover, these exchanged weapons and equipment were non-transferable, only for personal use. Even if they were dropped after being killed, others could not use them, but they could be sold to NPCs, but at a slightly lower price...

To exchange for the Dark-Gold Set, one first had to enter the highest level of the God-Demon Battlefield, because the God-Demon Battlefield was also divided into levels, namely the Soldier Battlefield, the War General Battlefield, the Marshal Battlefield, the King Battlefield, and the Hero Battlefield. The requirements to enter these five battlefields were higher than the last.

In other words, reaching the Hero level and entering the Hero Battlefield was required to obtain enough points to exchange for the Dark-Gold Set.

However, this was a good way for experts to improve their equipment. After all, Dark-Gold weapons and equipment were not easy for even large guilds to obtain.

So the God-Demon Arena became even more popular.

Even Fire Dance and the others, when participating in the God-Demon Battlefield, would sometimes be killed to the point of exhaustion. This was because the players randomly matched in the God-Demon Battlefield did not only come from one kingdom or empire, but from the entire God's Domain. If they encountered monstrous experts or were surrounded and killed by three or four top experts, Fire Dance and the others would also meet their demise.

However, this also made Fire Dance and the others realize that there was always someone better. Being ranked at the top in the weak Star-Moon Kingdom was nothing in the entire God's Domain.

The situation within the Stoneclaw Mountains was also becoming increasingly heated. Many teams had already begun to roam between the outer and inner areas of the Stoneclaw Mountains, clearing monsters, and their levels and equipment were improving rapidly.

A large number of Zero Wing Guild members had also begun leveling up and grinding monsters inside.

For a time, the competition in the Stoneclaw Mountains became increasingly fierce, and many frictions and battles frequently occurred.

As time passed and the system continued to improve, more experts would emerge in God's Domain, so Shi Feng was also eager to improve further.

"Guild Leader, we've brought over what you wanted." Alchemist Jiu Bin held a pile of parts and placed them on the stone platform, respectfully saying, "These parts are what we've made in the past few days, about 140 pieces."

A full four days had passed, and even with countless materials provided, the success rate was lower than expected. Just to make these 140 parts cost a full thousand gold, which was now worth millions of credits. It made them feel extremely ashamed.

They knew that a part only cost more than thirty silver in materials. A thousand gold could make more than three thousand parts, but they only successfully made 140, less than half a percent success rate.

"Okay, continue to go back and make them." Shi Feng nodded, not feeling surprised by this success rate.

After all, those were parts for magic devices. Having nearly half a percent success rate was already within his expectations.

After Jiu Bin left, Shi Feng also adjusted his mood and began to make the core components.

The core components didn't require many materials, but they were all rare. Even with the power of the guild and buying some from Bai Qingsnow's channels, he only managed to get a hundred pieces. Each piece cost 10 gold, so a hundred pieces was more than 1,000 gold. Even first-rate guilds like the Star River Alliance and the Snake Worship would definitely not want to bear such a cost.

"Fortunately, Stone Forest Town and Candlelight Firm together can earn a lot every day, otherwise, I wouldn't dare to make them," Shi Feng said with a bitter smile as he looked at the materials in his hand.

The core component to be made was a sphere. Just melting those metals was not easy, but Shi Feng, relying on the Ice-Blue Devil Flame, refined the metal with a very good color. After that came the shaping. If the size differed by even one millimeter, it would ultimately fail, not to mention the engraved magic patterns.

Time passed bit by bit.

Shi Feng made seventy at once.

The result was as expected, only 3 were successful, all the others failed…

The difficulty was even greater than expected.

"I'm pretty much familiar with it now, let's use the Mana Gold this time." Shi Feng looked at the remaining materials and felt that he had practiced enough.

Mana Gold, as a system reward, was an ultra-rare material. Not only could it increase the success rate, but it also had a certain chance of mutation. If sold outside, no one would even think of selling it for less than a hundred gold.

Of the first fifty he made, only 1 was successful, but of the last 20 he refined, 2 were successful. Undoubtedly, the success rate was increasing, and all of this was the result of Shi Feng's constant experiments using the water ball simulator. Without the water ball simulation device in the special forging room, all of them would have probably failed.

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