Chapter 356 Shop Upgrade

The remodeling time for the Candlelight Trading Firm's branch stores was very short after Shi Feng chose to promote them.

In just ten minutes, the five one-star shops became two-star shops.

Although the stores' sales volume wouldn't increase, the number of Lifestyle players they could accommodate increased several times over, enough to accommodate the 1,200 people recruited this time.

The speed of development in God's Domain had far exceeded Shi Feng's expectations.

Originally, after Shi Feng obtained the Three-Star Promotion Order, he hadn't planned to recruit so many people. At most, he would recruit five or six hundred people, which would be the limit. However, after the system completed its fourth evolution, the steps for Lifestyle players to create items became more complicated, greatly affecting the speed of item creation.

Previously, Melancholy Smile had already compiled statistics on the speed at which everyone in the Zero Wing Trading Firm created items.

The higher the level of the item, the greater the impact on the crafting speed.

For items like the Whetstone, the speed at which players made them only decreased by about 15%, but for the Advanced Whetstone, it reached 25%. This meant that the time it took to make five Advanced Whetstones could now only produce four.

Not to mention the items that only intermediate and advanced Forgers could make. The production speed of Enchanted Armor alone dropped by 40%. The number of Enchanted Armor pieces produced each day was already small, but now it was even more pitiful. He had promised the Tianji Pavilion that he had to deliver ten Bronze Mounts and two thousand Enchanted Armor pieces within five days of entering God's Domain, and the remaining items had to be delivered within twelve days.

If he couldn't do it, not only would the black card be taken back, but all the items delivered before would not be refunded.

So Shi Feng was pressed for time.

To speed up the pace, in addition to increasing the success rate of item creation, the only other option was to increase manpower.

There was a limited amount that could be improved in terms of success rate, so the only choice was to increase manpower.

Shi Feng didn't expect these newly recruited Lifestyle players to immediately develop a large number of excellent Lifestyle players.

His plan was to have these newly recruited advanced apprentices do the work of ordinary beginner Forgers, let the beginner Forgers do the work of intermediate Forgers, and let the intermediate Forgers do the work of advanced Forgers.

In this way, it would be enough to complete this impossible task within the specified time.

Immediately, Shi Feng explained the matter and asked Melancholy Smile to prepare in advance, because adjusting the work and arranging so many people was not something that could be done quickly.

"Guild Leader, this may be difficult to do. Even with the help of a special spatial room, our three advanced Forgers only have a success rate of about 40% when making Enchanted Armor. The intermediate Forgers in the trading firm, with the help of a special spatial room, probably only have a success rate of about 15%. Making a piece of Enchanted Armor like this would be good just to break even," Melancholy Smile was very clear about the success rate of forging and often did various statistics.

Although the success rate of 15% seemed high, in reality, if you tried to make something ten times, all ten times would definitely fail. This was because forging items wasn't like gambling to open a treasure chest. This probability wasn't fixed, meaning that each time an item was made, there was a 15% chance of success, and the chance of success wouldn't increase for the next attempt.

According to the statistics, generally only when the success rate reached 20% would there be a high probability of success in one out of ten actual attempts, and only when the success rate reached 25% would there be a qualitative change in the actual success rate. Almost every ten attempts would generally succeed once or twice.

It would be too much of a stretch to have intermediate Forgers make Enchanted Armor.

Frost Cocoa next to her also nodded. After a long period of research and experimentation, she would directly give up on making items if the system calculated a success rate of less than 20%, because the actual production probability was too low, and making them would result in a loss and waste materials, unless her luck was heaven-defying.

The resources in God's Domain were limited, and the materials for making those high-level items were even scarcer. Using them once meant that there was one less. It would be very foolish to make them without a certain degree of certainty.

"What do you think this is?" Shi Feng smiled and took out a fist-sized sea-blue ore from his backpack.

Immediately, Melancholy Smile and Frost Cocoa were stunned.

Because the ore placed on the table faintly radiated magic power, which was even more intense than magic crystals.

After the two clicked to view the attribute introduction, their small mouths couldn't help but open wide.

"Guild Leader, how did you get this?" Melancholy Smile stared at Shi Feng, her eyes full of excitement. "Do you have a lot of them?"

Alien Fire was a very rare thing in God's Domain. Its rarity was such that even Melancholy Smile hadn't found a trace of other Alien Fires after investigating for so long.

She knew about Alien Fire entirely because of the ice-blue flame placed in the guild's special space. This was specially left behind by Shi Feng. However, after obtaining Alien Fire, at most three rooms could be allocated. Having this thing could improve the success rate quite a bit.

If it weren't for the Ice Blue Demon Flame, the success rate of making Enchanted Armor wouldn't be as high as 40%.

And the Magic Source Ore made up for the lack of quantity brought by the Alien Fire.

This Intermediate Magic Source Ore could give ordinary flames the success rate of a Tier 3 Alien Fire, but unfortunately, it could only last for 30 minutes. It wasn't like a real Alien Fire, which could be used infinitely without time limits.

If there were a large number of Intermediate Magic Source Ores, it would be entirely possible to let those Intermediate Forgers make Enchanted Armor. The success rate of making them would definitely reach 25%, and the Candlelight Trading Firm currently had nearly twenty Intermediate Forgers. This completely exceeded the number of Enchanted Armor blueprints. Picking the three with the highest success rate and having them learn the remaining three Enchanted Armor blueprints would turn the original three people making them into six people making them.

And if the three of them used the Intermediate Magic Source Ore, the success rate might exceed 50%. Adding the effect of the Beginner Meditation Room, the number of Enchanted Armor pieces that could be made continuously every day could reach at least seven hundred. Not only was there no decrease in production due to the system, but it actually increased a lot, which could completely meet Shi Feng's required standards.

"Don't worry, it's enough for you to use," Shi Feng nodded and smiled. Then, he took out a blueprint that was as large as a table and spread it out on the table. This blueprint was officially the Engineering Mechanical Vehicle bought from Dark Sin's Heart. "Melancholy, you're the most familiar with the people in the trading firm. Find some trustworthy engineers and alchemists and do your best to make this thing."

Melancholy Smile only glanced at the blueprint roughly, but when she saw the name on the blueprint, she was immediately stunned.

Frost Cocoa next to her also seemed to have seen a treasure, her eyes shining.

Although the blueprint in front of her was an engineering blueprint, it involved three professions: Engineering, Forging, and Alchemy. Moreover, it had quite high requirements for each profession. The difficulty of making it was much more difficult than making Enchanted Armor. If one step wasn't done well, it would ultimately lead to failure.

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