Inside the Candlelight Trading Company's advanced forging room.
On Youyu Weixiao's orders, the most skilled alchemist and engineer in the Candlelight Trading Company had rushed over immediately.
"Take a look at these first and tell me how confident you are in crafting them," Shi Feng said, handing two sets of blueprints to the alchemist Jiubin and the engineer Shanhaixiao respectively.
The two nodded repeatedly, not daring to be the slightest bit careless.
Alchemist Jiubin was the only mid-tier alchemist in the Candlelight Trading Company, and engineer Shanhaixiao was the same. In their previous lives, both had achieved considerable success and had become master-level figures.
In their previous life, even someone like Shi Feng — the president of a second-rate guild — would have shown them great respect.
Yet right now, the two of them were visibly nervous around Shi Feng. Gone was the arrogance they displayed around other crafting players; they behaved as obedient as little kittens, studying the blueprints he had given them with absolute focus.
But there was nothing they could do about it. Black Flame's reputation was simply too overwhelming.
Throughout the entire Star Moon Kingdom, there was no one who didn't know his name. He stood at the very pinnacle of the Star Moon Kingdom, and now such a towering figure had suddenly summoned the two of them to handle a task. How could they not be nervous?
After the two finished studying the blueprints with trembling hands, a look of shock appeared in their eyes. What Shi Feng had brought was simply too astonishing.
"Guild Master, with such a complex alchemical array, even I can manage at best a ten percent success rate. If I could advance to the level of a senior alchemist, maybe I could raise it to twenty percent?" Alchemist Jiubin said nervously.
"And you?" Shi Feng turned to the engineer Shanhaixiao standing nearby.
Shanhaixiao stammered even more: "F-five percent."
"Five percent?" Shi Feng frowned slightly, and when Shanhaixiao saw that expression, he nearly collapsed on the spot.
"Fine. From now on, I'm authorizing both of you to use the special-grade workshop at all times. Pour everything into crafting the items listed here." After thinking it over for a good while, Shi Feng finally gritted his teeth and made the call.
What he had produced was none other than a portion of the magic artifact blueprint he had obtained from the Dark Temple.
As a weapon that had ended the Age of Gods and Demons, its crafting difficulty was naturally extraordinary. Generally speaking, even master-level craftsmen didn't have high success rates for the individual components, let alone the two of them who hadn't even reached master level.
As for the true core components of the magic artifact, those would have to be made by Shi Feng himself — but with his current skill as a mid-tier blacksmith, he was still far from ready.
"I need to level up my proficiency first," Shi Feng said with a sigh, looking at the blueprints that had been divided into more than twenty pages. "Magic artifacts really aren't easy to make."
But without the magic artifact, he wouldn't dare set foot in the Summit of the World.
*** The outer zone of the Stone Claw Mountain Range.
In the valley surrounded by mountains and thick forests, flickers of battle and illuminated areas lit up by Light Stones could be seen everywhere.
Ever since Stone Forest Town had opened, the Stone Claw Mountain Range had become a hunting ground for top-tier teams. Even deep into the night, the enthusiasm of the various major teams hadn't dimmed in the slightest.
Day and night, teams farmed Magic Crystals and equipment.
Magic Crystals were the standard currency of the God and Demon Arena, and the Stone Claw Mountain Range was a level 30 to 49 zone dungeon. The gear that dropped ranged from level 30 to level 45, and its quality wasn't much worse than what dropped in large-scale team dungeons — the only difference was that each boss kill yielded fewer items.
Now that the Zero Wing guild had claimed fame by clearing the level 30 Hell-difficulty hundred-man dungeon, there was little point in fighting over another level 30 hundred-man dungeon's First Clear. It was better to focus energy on competing for the team dungeons beyond level 30.
After all, level 30 was just a small milestone in a player's progression. Zero Wing had a significant advantage at this particular stage, but there was still level 40 and level 50, and a hundred more levels beyond that. The battle for level 30 large-scale team dungeons was only just beginning.