Just as Shi Feng was thinking about the location marked on the map in his hands.
On Main Street, four Level 200 Black Edge Guards carrying dark spears walked toward the Glorious War God, clearly intending to take him away.
"You won't catch me!"
With that, the Glorious War God logged out directly — but something unbelievable happened. In real-world terms, it was as if his soul had left his body, leaving behind an empty shell. The Glorious War God suddenly collapsed to the ground, motionless.
However, the four Black Edge Guards didn't care about any of that.
Two of them grabbed the Glorious War God's body, and they dragged him off Main Street. The Black Edge Knights then dispersed as well.
"Master Black Flame, what exactly is going on? The Glorious War God clearly logged out — shouldn't his body have disappeared by now?" Water-Color Rose looked at Shi Feng, blinking her bright eyes as she asked. She didn't really know why she was asking Shi Feng this question, but her intuition told her that he seemed to know.
If Shi Feng knew that Water-Color Rose was only asking him because of this line of thinking, he would probably marvel at just how terrifying a woman's intuition could be…
Hearing Water-Color Rose's question, Shi Feng replied with a casual smile: "The system probably doesn't allow players to escape their punishment."
The verdict from Blackwing City was undoubtedly the system's verdict. If the Glorious War God accepted his punishment properly, the cost would be minimized. If he simply deleted his account and started over — putting aside the equipment and money on his account — the hardest thing to earn back in the Divine Realm was reputation, since many quests were unique.
"So that's how it is."
Water-Color Rose felt that was about right. Otherwise, if everyone could just delete their account and start over after doing something wrong, the Divine Realm would be in chaos. However, as the Divine Realm had been open longer and players' levels grew higher, the likelihood of this happening would only decrease. After all, a Divine Realm account was something players had painstakingly leveled up. Starting completely from scratch — very few people had the courage for that. Still, in a situation like the Glorious War God's, most players would probably choose to delete and recreate, since starting over was faster. This could be considered a kind of bug, and the Main God System naturally wouldn't make such an error.
As for the Glorious War God's fate, Water-Color Rose felt not a shred of sympathy — if anything, she was grateful to Shi Feng for doing her a huge favor. Her family and the Glorious War God's family had been on good terms for a long time, and both families had been considering a marriage alliance to further enhance and expand their wealth and influence. Water-Color Rose had opposed the arrangement from the very beginning, which was why she had set out to carve her own path and build her standing within the family to resist the marriage.
The Divine Realm had given her the perfect opportunity. As long as she could advance further in the Divine Realm, combined with the Glorious War God's recent behavior, she could completely extinguish both families' plans for a marriage alliance.
After the Glorious War God's matter was settled, Shi Feng and Water-Color Rose returned to the restaurant to continue their trade.
Shi Feng had originally wanted to investigate the Godslayer's whereabouts, but he had since given up. The Destruction Mountains were an absolute forbidden zone for humans in the Divine Realm. Many people didn't believe it and ended up dying miserably. After that, no one dared to enter the Destruction Mountains casually. With his current strength, forget about entering the Destruction Mountains — he couldn't even reach the path leading to them, let alone the location marked on the map.
The only thing he could do was wait until he was strong enough, then find a way to go.
"Master Black Flame, here are the various forging materials you requested. Since bag space is limited, I only brought rare precious materials and stone. You did me an enormous favor this time, Master Black Flame, so I'll give you a discount — 43 gold total, and I'll waive the change." Water-Color Rose displayed the trade list with a slight smile. The total cost to acquire these materials had been a little over 37 gold. She had originally planned to sell them to Shi Feng for 50 gold, but since he had helped her so much, she decided to take a smaller profit.
Water-Color Rose hadn't originally had enough gold coins to purchase all these materials, but the Glimmer blueprints from last time had earned her a windfall. She had not only made over a hundred gold but also recovered all her Credit Points. She still had quite a few Glimmer blueprints left — if she sold them all, she could earn another ten-plus gold and several hundred thousand Credit Points.
Even for a top-tier guild like Twilight Echo, the entire guild's liquid funds were only around twenty to thirty gold. But Water-Color Rose's personal gold holdings exceeded a hundred, which made the guild's elders green with envy.
Having tasted the benefits the first time around, Water-Color Rose was now very eager to see what other surprise Shi Feng would bring her.
"43 gold?" Shi Feng looked at the trade list, and his heart skipped a beat.
He hadn't expected Water-Color Rose to be so ruthless — she had actually managed to gather this many materials. Every single one of them was a rare material for forging Iron Rank and Mythril Rank equipment, with some extremely rare Gold-grade materials mixed in as well. At the current stage, such materials were completely unavailable in the Star Moon Kingdom. On top of that, there were large quantities of Sturdy Stone, which he had specifically requested. Water-Color Rose had collected quite a lot — over a thousand stacks, filling every single ore bag she had. One had to admit, the Land of Ore really lived up to its reputation.
Ore bags were different from ordinary bags. They were specifically designed for storing forging materials and offered vastly more storage space — several times or even dozens of times that of regular bags. Water-Color Rose, for instance, had one main bag that could hold 100 slots, while the remaining six were all ore bags, each capable of holding 350 slots. Right now, every single one of them was completely full.
Over on Water-Color Rose's side, ore wasn't in short supply, so the Sturdy Stones were being sold to him at a price of 80 copper per stack. She had probably acquired them for even cheaper. That price was far lower than the going rate in the Star Moon Kingdom, where a single stack now fetched three silver coins — a difference of several times over with a single resell, and people were still fighting to get their hands on them.
However, paying 43 gold all at once was more than Shi Feng could afford.
Fortunately, he had come prepared. He pulled out a large pile of Bronze Equipment from his backpack, along with quite a few Iron Rank pieces. Most of them had been forged by Shi Feng himself, while a few were items he had obtained in the Moonlight Woods. But among all these pieces of equipment, the most dazzling one was the Level 10 Mythril Rank one-handed sword Silver Dawn, forged by Shi Feng's own hand.
Even for first-rate guilds, Mythril Rank weapons were incredibly scarce — typically only two or three pieces existed among the core leadership. Elite members of a guild could only dream of owning one.
In the blink of an eye, the private room was filled to the brim with the equipment Shi Feng had laid out, dazzling to behold. A rough count put the total at well over five hundred pieces. Water-Color Rose was instantly dumbfounded. It took her a full ten-plus seconds to snap back to her senses, staring at Shi Feng in sheer astonishment.
That amount of equipment was more than enough to fully arm an entire elite raid team at the top tier. And the majority of it had been forged by Shi Feng himself. Water-Color Rose simply couldn't wrap her mind around it — she had seen Blacksmiths forge equipment before, and the process was painfully slow. That was for ordinary pieces. These Bronze and Iron Rank items required meticulous hammering and precision; one careless mistake could lead to failure, meaning the crafting time was definitely far longer than that of common equipment. Even if Shi Feng had worked without eating or sleeping, forging over four hundred pieces in just three days and change — it simply didn't seem possible.
"Miss Water-Color, I've brought the equipment. Go ahead and name your price," Shi Feng said with a smile.
Water-Color Rose was completely thrown. She had originally planned to make a massive profit off of Shi Feng, but now, with over five hundred high-grade pieces of equipment in front of her, even giving herself away to him probably wouldn't be enough to cover it… (To be continued…)
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