After receiving Shuise Qiangwei's reply, Shi Feng ended the call and turned his full attention to crafting the Magi-Light sets in his hands.
Less than ten hours remained before the gate to the Ancient City opened — the exact moment the Ancient Divine Relic would activate. In such a tight window, assembling a powerful team was no easy feat. He had to work fast.
Meanwhile, Shuise Qiangwei had begun reaching out to Zero Wing's members while also dispatching the level-50 equipment to White River City for You Ziping and the others to equip.
In an instant, the Zero Wing guild had gained nearly seven hundred players of considerable strength.
This put Shuise Qiangwei in a rather good mood.
Other major guilds improved their expert player counts at a far slower pace — adding two to three hundred per month would already be considered excellent. Some guilds that developed sluggishly actually saw their expert counts decrease rather than increase, since as more and more players entered the Divine Realm and grew familiar with it, the bar for what counted as an expert kept rising. It was never a fixed standard.
The sudden addition of You Ziping's group and the White Tiger Martial Arts Hall had boosted Zero Wing's expert-tier strength by thirty percent in one go. If word got out, it would be absolutely terrifying.
Perhaps seven hundred expert players couldn't compare to an elite army of ten thousand, but when it came to mobility and outdoor combat capability, seven hundred experts far outstripped ten thousand elite players.
With the Heavenly Burial guild currently preoccupied, suddenly putting seven hundred experts out in the field would give both Heavenly Burial and Blackwater a serious headache.
The only pity was that their debut location would be the Ancient Divine Relic, where they couldn't cause any trouble for Heavenly Burial or Blackwater — instead, it would only put those two guilds on guard.
Candlelight Trading House, Premium Forging Room.
Shi Feng manipulated the Thunder Purple Fire, carefully smelting various materials before adding Constant Gold Ingots and forging them into shape. The entire process flowed like water — practically perfect.
Yet the success rate of the finished product hovered around sixty percent, and each attempt consumed three hundred gold coins…
After successfully crafting four more Magi-Light sets and reaching a total of thirty, Shi Feng stopped. Instead, he pulled the Advanced Mana Tome from his inventory and began producing Advanced Mana Armor Fragments.
The boost from the fragments was far less impressive than the Magi-Light sets themselves, but given the limited time, producing hundreds of sets in one go was impossible. However, the fragments alone were more than enough to forge a formidable team.
With three Advanced Mana Armor Fragments equipped, a player's base attributes would jump by over ten percent — no small number for a level-50 player. Moreover, when layered on top of the Magi-Light set, it was essentially equivalent to wearing a full set of level-50 Dark-Gold equipment. The Magi-Light sets had already been reinforced, and their base stats were on par with Dark-Gold equipment of the same level. With the added boost from the fragments, they would surpass Dark-Gold equipment of the same tier entirely.
Imagining a thirty-person team where every member wore a complete level-50 Dark-Gold set — that would absolutely be the invincible team of the moment.
After all, the current superpowers treated even a single piece of level-50 Gold-grade equipment as a treasure. Not only were such pieces exceedingly rare, but the players who could equip them were invariably high-ranking guild officers or top-tier experts. As for level-50 Dark-Gold equipment, or a complete Dark-Gold set — that was simply beyond imagination.
"Finally made it in time." Shi Feng looked at the Advanced Mana Armor Fragments laid out on the table and allowed himself a satisfied smile.
Thanks to the Thunder Purple Fire, his speed in crafting the fragments had increased considerably. After spending five hours, he had successfully produced ninety pieces — enough for thirty people. His experience points surged wildly as well, leaving him just nineteen percent short of reaching level 65.
Shi Feng immediately contacted You Ziping and instructed him to bring the other twenty-nine plate-armor melee players the guild had been training to assemble at the Premium Forging Room.
Before long, You Ziping arrived with his team — most of them wearing a mix of level-50 Iron Rank pieces with a few Mythril Rank items — and strode quickly into the Premium Forging Room.
The moment You Ziping and the others stepped inside, they froze in shock at the sight before them.
The spacious Premium Forging Room was lined with piece after piece of equipment radiating brilliant light, each one extraordinary. Every item shared the same style and design — clearly a matching set, not the common scattered pieces one could find anywhere.
But that wasn't even the main point. The equipment emanated the distinctive golden glow characteristic of Gold-grade gear, and there were dozens of sets in total…
It practically blinded them.
"Level-45 Gold-grade sets?" they guessed to themselves, unable to contain their astonishment.