"I've explained the use of the Titan Holy City entry pass." Shi Feng fiddled with the pass in his hand, sweeping his gaze over the crowd. He was quite satisfied with the desire shown by everyone present. "So, what's your decision?"
He had spent quite a lot to get this entry pass, even using up his most precious Tier 4 magic scroll.
In his previous life, the auction price for a single Titan Holy City entry pass was two to three hundred gold coins, sometimes even reaching over five hundred. Ordinary players couldn't afford it, and even if they bought one, the value they could extract from it was limited.
Moreover, inside Titan Holy City, if a player didn't have enough money, going there was meaningless.
Generally, major guilds were willing to pay a high price for entry passes mainly to have their high-level life profession players push for mastery, or for certain life profession masters who needed to create new works and required the use of the research labs. For players below the high-level life profession tier, it was simply a waste.
But right now, Shi Feng couldn't worry about that.
Having a life profession player reach the master level right now was out of the question. Even a forging genius like Shuimian Shulan couldn't become a Master Blacksmith by using the research lab for a long time.
Furthermore, for a life profession to reach the master level, one needed to create their own works. This required a considerable accumulation of knowledge about various materials. His earlier creation of the Gleaming Breastplate was definitely a stroke of luck. Asking him to create another new piece of equipment now was utterly impossible.
Creating a Bronze-rank Gleaming Breastplate was already as difficult as reaching the heavens, let alone creating the quality required to become a master-level player, which was far higher.
To become a Master Blacksmith, one needed to accumulate a significant amount of forging proficiency and also create three Iron-rank items and one Mythril-rank item. Thus, very, very few players could become life profession masters—not even one in a hundred high-level life profession players. One could imagine the difficulty.
Because of this, Titan Holy City became an absolute holy land for life profession players. Countless high-level life profession players desired to enter it for advanced studies, and major guilds purchased entry passes at any cost.
As long as one became a life profession master, it meant the guild's trading company would have core competitiveness.
Because a life profession master could create unique items, and becoming a master showed that one's research into various materials had reached a certain standard. In the future, even if they continued to create new items, it would be much easier. Making money wouldn't be too difficult. Therefore, major guilds held great respect for master-level players.
"What have you decided?" At this moment, the melancholy smiling man stared at these life profession players, pointed at the agreement on the table, and asked sternly, "If you want to advance further, you must sign this agreement. Otherwise, the trading company absolutely will not give you such an opportunity."
"But this agreement... it's practically selling us to the Candlelight Trading Company. We won't be able to leave it a single step, and it also requires us to work full-time. We really need to think this over carefully." Several mid-to-high-level life profession players spoke up one after another.
In their view, the Divine Realm was just a game. If they put all their hope into the Divine Realm and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to its life professions, who could guarantee they wouldn't starve to death in the future?
Moreover, the terms on the agreement were extremely harsh. Anyone who signed it could not work for another place for ten years. Even deleting their account and creating a new one wouldn't work, because this was a system contract. The system could identify players through brain scans, so no matter how many accounts they created, they would still be restricted by the system.
And even after ten years, when they could work elsewhere, they would still have to delete their account.
"I'm not forcing you," he continued, "but you also need to know that obtaining this spot isn't easy. If you're still only spending half a day in the Divine Realm, that would be a huge waste of these spots. Besides, these spots are very precious. Furthermore, the guild has spent enormous resources to cultivate you. If you then get poached by another guild, wouldn't all those resources be wasted? You need to understand, the resources that allow you to advance further in the Divine Realm are priceless things. Once used, there might not be a next chance."
"The agreement states clearly that after you start working full-time, you will enjoy the basic benefits and treatment of a core player of the Zero Wing Guild: ten thousand credit points per month. In addition, there are various bonuses based on performance. I'm sure you wouldn't be signing this agreement just for this income, right?"
"You're also aware of the Candlelight Trading Company's treatment. It's absolutely top-tier in the industry. I'm very busy and can't give you too much time. Ten minutes. You only have ten minutes to decide."
Shi Feng understood everyone's thoughts, but understanding was one thing; the agreement still had to be signed.
He believed the conditions he offered were very generous, and the resources provided couldn't be compared to other guilds. In other guilds, if some high-level life profession players had only a 1% chance of becoming life profession masters, then at his place, it was at least 5%. Don't underestimate that small increase in probability; many people became life profession masters precisely because of that slight increase.
In his previous life, the Shadow Guild was a small guild. The high-level life profession players they brought in had few restrictions. After investing huge resources into them, a few became life profession masters, but these masters eventually defected to other large guilds. The Shadow Guild was completely helpless.
After all, there were too many financial magnates in the Divine Realm. As life profession players became increasingly important, the temptations offered by these magnates would only grow larger. No one could guarantee these life profession players wouldn't lose their minds.
Moreover, Shuise Qiangwei had secretly investigated, and it was found that many high-level life profession players had already been approached by some financial magnates.
He didn't want to gamble on the character of these life profession players.
"Oh, right, I haven't finished. Not everyone is qualified to sign, and it's not just your group that's being considered. Weixiao, go inform everyone in the trading company: as long as they pass the test and sign the agreement, they will have the right to use the basic meditation room. Those who want to sign the agreement, go to Weixiao for testing." Shi Feng swept his gaze over the silent high-level life profession players and smiled as he said this.
For other guilds, cultivating high-level life profession players was difficult, but for the Candlelight Trading Company, it was much easier.
Other guilds might treasure high-level life profession players, but he didn't particularly value them.
If it were mid-level life profession players from other guilds who came to the Candlelight Trading Company, they would have already become high-level life profession players by now. After all, the Candlelight Trading Company had the first special-grade workshop and a large number of rare blueprints.
If they weren't willing to sign the agreement, he'd rather give the resources to players with slightly lesser skills.
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