Each set of the Gold-grade Radiant Light equipment cost a staggering 300 gold to produce. A single failure meant losing 300 gold — a price that even the wealthiest super-guilds wouldn't dare gamble on lightly.
Had Shi Feng's success rate not already reached a fairly high level, he wouldn't have dared attempt the crafting so freely.
After Shi Feng clicked to appraise the attributes of the Radiant Light set, a system notification popped up on the spot.
System: Crafting of the Radiant Light set successful. Blacksmithing proficiency +15. Gained 6,000,000 experience points.
"The attributes went up by quite a bit." Shi Feng examined the Radiant Light set's stats and couldn't help but smile.
A level-50 Gold-grade set was already the pinnacle of equipment in the current Divine Realm. Dark-Gold equipment at level 50 could generally only be obtained from super-large-scale team dungeons, and even then it wasn't a guaranteed drop — most of the time, only Gold-grade weapons and gear dropped. That meant a level-50 Gold-grade set remained top-tier equipment even after the major guilds had cleared those super-large-scale team dungeons.
And now, after being reinforced with Ingots of Eternal Gold, each piece of the Gold-grade Radiant Light set had seen a 10% boost to its base stats. It didn't sound like much on the surface, but level-50 Gold-grade equipment typically had a single stat exceeding 100 points. A 10% increase meant over 10 extra points in that stat alone — across six pieces, that added up to more than 60 extra points in a single stat, to say nothing of boosts across all attributes.
A 10% increase like this was practically equivalent to wearing an additional level-50 Mythril-rank piece.
The only way top players from other guilds could surpass this would be if they were equipped with Epic-grade items. But Epic-grade items were exceedingly rare across all the guilds — even top-tier players might not get their hands on a single piece, let alone ordinary elites.
As long as the guild's elite players were equipped with the Radiant Light set, they would absolutely crush other guilds' elites in base stats alone.
This kind of crushing advantage was even greater than what the Conqueror's Armor provided when its battle formation was activated. While it fell short of the battle formation in terms of combat technique, in raw destructive power it far surpassed it. Against enemies, there was no need to employ any time-consuming tactics — just relying on raw stats to steamroll through was more than enough.
With that thought, Shi Feng immediately set to work on the next set of Radiant Light equipment.
He crafted three more sets in succession. One of them failed completely, but the other two succeeded. The success rate was even higher than Shi Feng had anticipated.
Just as he was thinking about moving on to the next set, Youyu Weixiao suddenly contacted him.
"Guild Leader, the Magic Tower you mentioned earlier has been completed in Zero Wing City. But it consumes an enormous number of Magic Crystals every day — are we really going to activate it now?" Youyu Weixiao asked with some concern.
Spending 5,000 gold to build the Magic Tower was one thing, and spending another 5,000 Magic Ore was another. They had hoped it would bring some benefit to Zero Wing City, but it turned out that simply activating the Magic Tower required 3,000 Magic Crystals, and maintaining it daily called for another 1,500 Magic Crystals.
For any guild, that was no small sum — especially for the current Zero Wing Guild.
Though they had earned some Magic Crystals through the Four Elements Tower's teleportation function and the arena memberships, they still couldn't afford to squander them.
"It's fine. Go ahead and activate it," Shi Feng said with a smile.
The Magic Tower was essentially the symbol of a city. Only a city with a Magic Tower could truly be called a city.
The main reason was that the Magic Tower dramatically boosted a city's mana density. The five Magic Lamps together only raised mana density to about a third of what a single Magic Tower could achieve — which showed just how terrifying the Magic Tower's effect was.
Moreover, only once the Magic Tower existed would more NPCs be willing to come live in a player's city. High-tier NPCs in particular had strict requirements regarding mana density.
"Oh, right — after the Magic Tower is activated, go let Water Color Rose know. Have her raise the city entrance fee for Zero Wing City to 60 copper coins, and bump the arena fees up by 30% as well," Shi Feng added.
With the city's mana density increased, everything else naturally had to follow suit. After all, the boost in mana density brought players a wide array of benefits.