Although
Armor fragments in the Divine Realm were divided into Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced, with the far rarer Epic-grade armor fragments sitting above those.
These armor fragments were nothing like ordinary ones—they could elevate a Dark-Gold equipment piece to Epic grade!
For many expert players, Epic-grade equipment was already considered divine gear. Epic-grade armor fragments that could transform equipment into Epic-grade were therefore invaluable, especially when upgrading a piece of Dark-Gold equipment whose attributes were well-suited to the player. The benefit to the player would be immense.
Of course, equipment upgraded through Epic-grade armor fragments was fixed at a particular level. A level 50 piece upgraded in this way would have Epic-grade attributes at level 50, unlike other Epic-grade equipment that grew in attributes alongside the player's level, all the way up to the equipment's maximum level.
Even so, the value of a single Epic-grade armor fragment was extraordinarily high—an item that countless players would go crazy over.
An Epic-grade armor piece could be synthesized from just one hundred Epic-grade armor fragments.
Generally speaking, Epic-grade armor fragments only dropped from level 60+ hundred-man Hell Difficulty team dungeons or level 60+ two-hundred-man Hard Difficulty team dungeons. Wild Legendary-grade bosses also dropped them, but at a significantly lower rate than team dungeons.
Shi Feng hadn't expected the Elemental Guardians here to drop them as well.
In an instant, the way Shi Feng looked at those Elemental Guardians completely changed. They were no longer annoying monsters—they were walking Epic-grade armor fragments.
Because besides Epic-grade armor fragments, the Elemental Guardians also dropped
Elemental Crystals were a higher-tier energy source than
On the market, the value of a single Elemental Crystal exceeded that of a Magic Crystal by more than a hundredfold. For instance, when activating defensive magic arrays and magical barriers, using an Elemental Crystal boosted their effectiveness by at least 30%, allowing an array originally capable of defending against ordinary Tier 3 attacks to withstand peak Tier 3 strikes, or enabling a barrier that normally suppressed Grand Lords to restrain High Grand Lords.
And now, with just a single Elemental Guardian killed, he had obtained three Elemental Cores…
After that, Shi Feng set about continuously slaying the Elemental Guardians in the hall. Even though each kill demanded seven or eight minutes of grueling combat, the thought of what they dropped made the effort seem trivial.
After killing more than forty Elemental Guardians, Shi Feng felt not the slightest fatigue in the high-mana environment—his fighting spirit only burned brighter.
From these Elemental Guardians, he had harvested thirty-one Epic-grade armor fragments and one hundred and twenty-six Elemental Cores. If the major guilds knew of this haul, they would be green with envy. In his previous life, obtaining even two or three Epic-grade armor fragments had required a hundred-man team working most of the day, yet Shi Feng had managed this after just six hours of farming—a yield that could only be described as terrifying.
But Shi Feng didn't continue grinding. The flow of time in the Ancient God's Labyrinth matched the real world. Six hours in the labyrinth meant six hours had passed in reality, and on top of that, he had already spent a long stretch without logging out of the Divine Realm. Even though the mind stayed sharp inside the game, the physical body still needed some activity.
So Shi Feng logged out and left the Divine Realm, planning to rest for a while.
The moment he stepped out of the virtual-reality pod, the sun outside the window had already climbed to its zenith. But unlike before, the view from what used to be the Snake of the Body headquarters building was far superior to the Greenwater Villa— the entire cityscape lay spread out before him.
Since
In the Divine Realm, team dungeons were always the top priority for acquiring large quantities of resources and high-grade equipment. This was precisely why Zero Wing had consistently fallen behind first-rate guilds and the great superpowers.
But the guild's rapid expansion meant credit points flowed out like water—gone before you even realized. The credit points earned from the guild's commission tasks and equipment sales were nowhere near enough to cover expenses. Fortunately, the corporation backing Bai Qingxue had stepped in to provide funding, which barely kept things afloat.
This was a constant headache for Water Crimson Rose and
After finishing lunch and downing a nutritional supplement, Shi Feng headed straight for the physical training room in the headquarters building, planning to give his largely sedentary body a proper workout.
Walking into a training room nearly half the size of a soccer field, several hundred Zero Wing members rose to their feet upon seeing Shi Feng, offering greetings with gazes that mixed reverence and admiration.
With so many people, Shi Feng could only nod and smile in response.
But when he noticed more than ten people queued up waiting for the training machines, he couldn't help but feel a bit sheepish. Normally, at the old Shadow in his previous life, five or six people waiting for these physical training machines would have been considered a crowd—now there were more than ten in line…
It had to be said that Zero Wing right now was all show. If it wanted to catch up with first-rate guilds and the superpowers, it needed a massive influx of capital, or the guild's development speed would be severely hampered.
"I need to figure out a way to earn more credit points from the Divine Realm," Shi Feng thought to himself as he watched the guild members training.
After all, relying on Bai Qingxue's corporation to keep propping things up wasn't a sustainable solution. In the past, keeping the Snake of the Body running had required the backing of five major corporations. Zero Wing's current scope wasn't as large as the old Snake of the Body, but relying on a single major corporation to shoulder the burden was clearly impossible.
Just as Shi Feng had been training for a little over an hour, Hei Zi suddenly walked into the training room, his expression somewhat hurried.
"What happened?" Shi Feng asked, puzzled.
"Something big! People from the Blackwater Consortium are here—they say they want to talk with our Zero Wing!" Hei Zi said, looking rather flustered as he turned to Shi Feng.