After seeing the system notification, Shifeng smiled faintly.
After producing over 400 Advanced Whetstones, Shi Feng was finally promoted to an Intermediate Forging Apprentice. However, he still needed 3,000 Proficiency Points to become an Advanced Forging Apprentice.
Shifeng looked at his experience bar. He was currently at 94% of Level 9. He was only 6% away from the Level 10 threshold. As long as he worked hard, he would be able to break through.
In God's Domain, players would experience a significant increase in their Attributes every 10 levels.
The first Level 10 signified that players could head to a city. Not only could they purchase resources that were not available in towns, but they could also obtain more high-level quests. Earning money would also be much easier. They could even purchase cheap Bronze Equipment in the city. However, this depended on luck. In addition, players could also use the Teleportation Gate to reach high-level monster areas. They would not have to spend too much time traveling, and they could quickly reach Level 10 and above monster areas.
Moreover, the game of God's Domain would only truly begin once players entered a city.
At that time, players from dozens or even hundreds of towns would gather in a city. Each city would have at least 100,000 players. Meanwhile, White River City was the fifth largest city in the Starmoon Kingdom. The number of players gathered in White River City would exceed a million. At that time, the various Guilds would be able to gather their forces and display their true strength. This would also cause the competition between Guilds to become even more intense. It would no longer be as peaceful as it was now, and Guilds would compete for all sorts of resources.
This was the reality of virtual reality games. Resources were limited. A city only had so many good resources and leveling spots. However, the player population was extremely high. If one wanted to level up quickly, they would have to compete for these spots. Without strength, they would be eliminated.
Small Guilds had no way of surviving in a city, not to mention independent players. The various high-level resources and good leveling spots would be monopolized by the large Guilds. Small Guilds and independent players could only hide in places with fewer resources.
Hence, if one could reach a city earlier, there would be much less competition.
However, this did not mean that the earlier one reached a city, the better. Instead, the more advantages one had, the better one would be in a city.
Take Blackwing City for example. Ordinary players would only go there to experience the city. It was a pure waste of time. However, it was a different story for the upper echelons of large Guilds. Aside from trading with each other, they could also purchase a large number of items that were not available in other cities.
Currently, Shifeng's Level was definitely the highest in White River City. If other players wished to catch up to his current Level, they would need at least two or three days to do so. During this period of time, Shifeng wanted to further expand their advantage. Only then would they be able to establish Ling Yi's Workshop in White River City.
"So this is Runic Steel. It really is a treasure." Shifeng happily took out the blue metal block filled with Mana from his bag.
In his previous life, many blacksmiths would fight over a single piece of Runic Steel. Even if they managed to buy it, they would treat it like a treasure and would never use it casually.
But now, he had received 10 pieces.
[Runic Steel] (Fine-Gold Rank Consumable) When forging equipment below Level 50 Fine-Gold rank, success rate increased by 10%. There is also a certain chance to increase the equipment's quality by one. The highest rank it can reach is Fine-Gold rank.
No matter how Shi Feng looked at it, Runic Steel was much stronger than Hundred Refinement Steel, not to mention improving equipment quality.
"Hahaha! With this Runic Steel, my success rate in forging the Silver Dawn will be even higher!"
Shifeng had previously collected all the materials required to forge the Silver Dawn from the Auction House. Including the materials he had collected previously, he could only forge 16 pieces of the Silver Dawn. Just the cost of forging each Silver Dawn was 37 Silver Coins. Even an elite party would have to raid a Hard Mode Party Dungeon five or six times to earn 37 Silver Coins.
Hence, Shifeng had chosen to become an Intermediate Forging Apprentice. Only then would he be able to forge the Silver Dawn.
Following which, Shifeng took out the Silver Dawn Forging Design and clicked to learn it. He then began to forge his first Silver Dawn.
Previously, he did not have the Ice-Blue Devil Flame. His success rate was only 32%. With the addition of the Ice-Blue Devil Flame, his success rate was 42%. If he used Runic Steel, his success rate would be 52%. An Intermediate Forging Apprentice would have a 50% success rate in forging a Secret-Silver Weapon. Even a Master Forger would be stupefied if they saw this.
After all, even a Basic Master Forger would only have a 30% success rate when forging a Secret-Silver Equipment. Only Grandmasters could achieve a 50% success rate.
After Shifeng carefully read the instructions for forging the Silver Dawn, he began to refine the materials.
First, he used the Philosopher's Stone to refine the materials with high purity. He then placed the materials into the Ice-Blue Devil Flame and waited for the materials to fuse. With Shifeng's 100% control over the Ice-Blue Devil Flame, the fusion of the materials was quite good.
However, Shifeng was not in a hurry to place the incomparably precious Runic Steel into the forging.
The first time was for him to familiarize himself with the forging process. Moreover, there were only 10 pieces of Runic Steel, each of which was worth over 1 Gold Coin. They were extremely rare. Placing them into the forging process now was simply a waste. If other forgers were to see this, they would most likely curse Shifeng for being shameless and vomit blood.
Shi Feng was only forging a Level 10 Secret-Silver Weapon, yet he actually wanted to use Runic Steel. This kind of action was simply infuriating.
Ten minutes later, the smelting process was complete. Shifeng was extremely satisfied when he saw the result. He placed the metal block on the anvil and started hammering it with the Runic Hammer.
Sparks flew everywhere, and the sound of hammering echoed throughout the entire Forging Room.
Shifeng was extremely careful with every hammering. He was deeply afraid that a single wrong step would affect the final shape of the weapon.
After hammering several hundred times, Shifeng's forehead was already covered in sweat. Feeling extremely satisfied, he carefully clicked "Generate".
Following which, the fiery-red metal block started to take shape, turning into a silver-white longsword.
Shi Feng then clicked to check the statistics.
After a full 5 seconds …
System: Forging the Silver Dawn has failed.
Shifeng looked at the Attributes of the Silver Dawn, discovering that it was only Level 10 Mysterious-Iron rank. It was indeed a failure. However, Shifeng was not disappointed. Although it was stated that he had a 42% success rate, this was his first time forging the Silver Dawn. The success rate would definitely be much lower than this. No matter how he looked at it, it was impossible for him to succeed. If he really did succeed, that would be a miracle.
With a failure, Shifeng started to summarize his experiences and lessons.
The reason why he was able to lead Shadow from a third-rate Guild to a second-rate Guild was not because he was a genius, but because he always summarized the lessons of his failures.
If others learned from their successes, then Shifeng learned from their failures.
After reflecting for over ten minutes, Shifeng started forging for the second time.
After over twenty minutes, he still failed. The Silver Dawn he forged was still Mysterious-Iron rank. However, there were slight improvements, and the Attributes had increased by a lot.
After forging for the sixth time, he had lost over 2 Gold Coins.
Only then did Shifeng feel that it was about time, so he started forging for the seventh time. Moreover, he used Runic Steel.
Following which, he smelted and hammered the Silver Dawn into shape.
He clicked "Generate".
Suddenly, an exquisite, light-blue longsword was formed. Many mysterious runes were engraved on the blade of the sword, and a faint flow of magic energy could be seen. With a single glance, one could tell that it was not an ordinary item.
Shifeng immediately became excited. He knew that this was definitely a stroke of luck. It was not as simple as a success.
"I wonder what the Attributes are like?" Shifeng clicked to check the Attributes.
After a full 10 seconds, the system finally gave the results.
System: Runic Steel's effect has been triggered. Quality increased by 1 level.
System: Blacksteel Insignia's effect has been triggered. Attributes increased.
System: Silver Dawn has been successfully forged. Forging Proficiency increased by 3 points. Obtained 10,000 EXP. (To be continued)
Author's Note: Author's Note: Author's Note: Thank you for the 100 reward! L's 100 reward! Celestial Cat's 100 reward!
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