Chapter 1 The Candlelight Trading Firm

White River City, Candlelight Trading Firm.

The special-grade forging room, as large as a basketball court, was filled with various rare materials. If ordinary players were to see these materials, they would probably want to snatch them all.

Because the value of these materials was at least 15,000 gold coins, which was an astronomical figure for an ordinary player. Even with the current exchange rate between gold coins and credits constantly decreasing, it was still enough for an ordinary person to live out the rest of their life comfortably.

"Guild Leader, these are all the materials you wanted." Melancholic Smile took out the last hundred Magic Dao Elven Stones, looking at Shi Feng with great puzzlement.

The various rare materials Shi Feng requested had practically emptied most of the Candlelight Trading Firm's stock, especially Titan Silver and Magic Dao Elven Stones. These items were rarely produced even in the biased mineral veins of the Fire Demon Valley. If it were any other guild, they probably wouldn't even be able to gather enough Magic Dao Elven Stones.

"Good!" Shi Feng nodded after checking the materials and said seriously, "After this, I need you to help me with something, but this matter must not be known to anyone else."

"Must not be known to anyone else?" Melancholic Smile was a little surprised.

The members of their Candlelight Trading Firm were strictly selected, and all core members had signed a series of strict contracts. It was difficult for the guild's confidential technologies to be leaked, because these technologies couldn't just be explained verbally. They also required design blueprints; otherwise, even if they knew, they wouldn't be able to create them.

But now, they couldn't even talk about it, which was very strange.

"You'll understand when you see it." Shi Feng carefully took out the Crimson Dragon Airship design book and placed it on the stone platform.

Melancholic Smile didn't think much of it at first. After all, she had seen too many precious design blueprints. However, when she clicked on the design book on the stone platform, she was completely stunned.

"An… airship!" Melancholic Smile couldn't believe her eyes at all.

As a lifestyle player, especially as a manager of the Candlelight Trading Firm, she had always dreamed of having not only combat airships but even transport airships.

It could even be said that countless lifestyle players, after seeing the airships in the city, had fantasized about one day creating these steel machines soaring in the sky.

However, this was just a dream.

Because the various kingdoms and empires strictly blocked related skills, players couldn't learn even a fraction of them. As for creating them themselves, there was too much knowledge involved, not to mention the need to spend a lot of materials to constantly experiment.

But now, Shi Feng had taken out the airship design blueprint!

At this moment, Melancholic Smile understood somewhat why Shi Feng didn't want her to tell anyone else.

Although the members of the Candlelight Trading Firm were bound by contracts, they couldn't prevent conversations in the real world. If the news of the airship design blueprint leaked out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The mere existence of airships already made countless forces drool with envy. An airship that could both transport and fight was not just envy but madness. The various forces would probably spare no expense, even if they couldn't get the airship, they would never let Zero Wing have it.

After all, it wasn't just about getting one airship. As long as they had the design blueprint and enough manufacturing materials, they could create as many as they wanted. A fleet of airships was many times more powerful than war puppets. After all, war puppets could still be dealt with by current players, but there were really no means to deal with airships.

Therefore, the various forces would never allow Zero Wing to grow and would definitely nip it in the bud.

"That's right, it's an airship. I'm planning to build an airship now, but this isn't something I can do alone. In addition to forgers, I also need a large number of engineers, alchemists, and other lifestyle profession masters." Shi Feng said slowly, "In order to prevent the news of the airship from spreading, I need you to organize everyone to make various parts separately, and then I will assemble them."

"Are you building it now?" Melancholic Smile said somewhat nervously, "Guild Leader, the manufacturing of parts for other professions is fine, but even a high-level forging master may not be able to successfully manufacture the most core power source. If it fails, all the Magic Dao Elven Stones will be wasted. Why don't we wait a little longer?"

If it was just a matter of money, Zero Wing wasn't worried at all with its current financial resources. However, Magic Dao Elven Stones were extremely rare and couldn't be bought with money. If the manufacturing failed, she didn't know how long it would take to gather a hundred Magic Dao Elven Stones.

"I would like to wait a little longer, but Zero Wing can't afford to wait." Shi Feng said with a wry smile.

Currently, the various forces were desperately leveling up, and they were probably secretly starting to advance into the level 100 neutral maps. This could be seen from the Unyielding Empire.

And on the level 100 neutral maps, the advantages of the various super forces began to truly manifest.

Zero Wing ultimately did not have the support of a large consortium and could not expand rapidly, constantly absorbing a large number of experts, not to mention those experts above the Subtle Realm, who could only be slowly cultivated by themselves and could not be compared with those super forces.

The only way was to have their own stable territory so that Zero Wing could get more resources and time to develop, so that they could survive in the level 100 neutral maps where the various super forces were fiercely fighting.

Now that the territory was available and the Knights Order had begun to recruit NPCs, all that was lacking was a large amount of funds and resources to arm the Knights Order. However, Zero Wing's existing resources and funds could not guarantee the normal operation of the Knights Order.

And because of the opening of the dimensional passage in God's Domain, it was already difficult to quickly earn a large amount of gold coins and resources. The only way was one.

That was transportation!

Especially the transportation of non-stackable items, which was a violent industry for earning big money and resources.

Originally, he wanted to make money by making Intermediate Traps, but it was still too early for the current time, after all, many of the main forces of the major guilds had not yet set foot on the level 100 neutral map, and the sales were very limited, not to mention that the guild's own members had to use them. It was difficult to form a climate without hundreds of Trap Design Drawings for Candlelight to make.

But transportation was different, especially airship transportation, which had a much greater carrying capacity than ordinary sailboats. Generally speaking, it could transport more than 500 non-stackable items, coupled with the speed far faster than sailboats, reselling the expensive non-stackable items needed by the major forces was definitely violent.

Otherwise, the major super forces would not be so enthusiastic and crazy about airships and flying ships.

"I understand, I will now distribute the manufacturing drawings of these parts, and I guarantee that no one will guess that they are manufacturing an airship." Melancholic Smile nodded and began to sort out the parts design drawings of the airship.

Hiding the manufacturing of the airship was not a difficult thing, after all, some parts of the airship were very similar to boats, and some differences were mainly reflected in the forging aspect, which only needed Shi Feng to make himself.

Afterwards, Melancholic Smile sent the various materials of the airship to the lifestyle masters in various aspects of the Candlelight Trading Firm. Everyone did not have any doubts about the suddenly received order. After all, there were too many such things, especially recently, there were many parts being made on the bronze fast boat.

And Shi Feng was fully manufacturing the power source of the airship.

For Shi Feng, who had already made war puppets and chariot power sources, he was already very familiar with it, but the airship's power source was more complex and precise.

"As expected, it is not something that ordinary high-level forging masters can manufacture." Shi Feng couldn't help but have a headache after carefully looking at the power source.

His manufacturing level was not a problem. With the Sage's Hand, he could forcibly increase it to the level of a high-level forging master, which had reached the bottom line of manufacturing, but the real trouble was the various magic arrays engraved on the power source, the complexity of which was already close to the master-level magic array.

However, Shi Feng was not in a hurry. He first calmed down and slowly studied the drawing of the magic array, and then constantly tried to draw it. It took him more than ten hours to master the drawing method of the magic array, and he could barely draw it in one breath.

"Okay! Now start manufacturing the power source!" Shi Feng began to manufacture wholeheartedly after resting for a while.

The manufacturing of the power source was not simple. In order to increase the success rate, Shi Feng took out the excellent sub-legendary material Dragon Blood Crystal Stone dropped by the Ice Dragon Hesweite.

The Dragon Blood Crystal Stone was an energy crystal stone the size of a fist, condensed with the power of dragon blood. Its energy purity was comparable to that of the Seven Luminaries Crystal Stone. It could not only be used as the power core of the city's defensive magic array, but also to strengthen the magic array. Its own value was comparable to an epic weapon above level 100, and the Ice Dragon Hesweite only dropped one.

Originally, he wanted to use it to strengthen the city's magic array, but after thinking about it, he still gave priority to improving the manufacturing success rate. After all, the advantages of owning an airship were unimaginable now.

Time passed by, and the power source was constantly being perfected. For others, tempering was very difficult, but for Shi Feng, he only needed to refine it with the Fire of Soul, which saved him a lot of time and energy.

Finally, after spending nearly six hours, the power source was completely formed, and the surrounding magic power was frantically converging towards the power source. Shi Feng also began to quickly engrave the magic array.

A big factor in whether the power source can succeed can be said to be the final engraving of the magic array. Not only does it need to be completed in a short time, but it also needs to be done in one go, so that the magic power can flow smoothly. If there is a slight deviation in that place, then all previous efforts will be wasted.

One minute… three minutes… five minutes…

As the magic power induced by the power source became weaker and weaker, Shi Feng was also constantly accelerating, as if he was using the secret skill Thunderbolt at all times.

Seeing that the condensed magic power was about to collapse and could no longer be concentrated towards the power source, Shi Feng finally engraved the last magic pattern.