Taking the Intermediate Forging Room Key, Shi Feng headed to the second floor, ignoring the seductive girl.

The first floor of the Forging Association was full of ordinary forging rooms, while the second floor held the intermediate ones.

The second floor was much less crowded than the first, with only NPCs moving back and forth. No players ever came here. Moreover, there were only twenty intermediate forging rooms, unlike the fifty ordinary ones.

Stepping into an intermediate forging room, the entire room was larger and more refined. The equipment was also better than in the ordinary rooms, especially the forging hammer and the flames, both of which were extraordinary.

Shi Feng casually picked up the silver-white hammer lying on the anvil.

Hundred Refinement Hammer (Bronze Rank)

Forging Item: Increases success rate by 3% when forging items.

Usage Requirement: 4 points of Strength.

Just this Hundred Refinement Hammer was hard to come by. At the NPCs, you could only buy ordinary iron hammers that didn't add any success rate. As for taking this Hundred Refinement Hammer, it was impossible. Items belonging to the forging room could not be taken away by players.

The flames here were also unusual. The color of the burning flames wasn't reddish-yellow but reddish-cyan. They weren't ordinary fire but a strange fire.

Shi Feng immediately scanned it.

Crimson Demon Fire (First-Order Strange Fire)

Special Item: Possesses extremely high temperature, allowing for more refined smelting. Increases the success rate when refining magic potions and forging items.

Strange fires were powerful flames of heaven and earth, extremely rare. Based on their abilities, they were divided into nine orders, with the first order being the weakest and the ninth order being the strongest. Even a first-order strange fire couldn't be easily obtained by players.

In God's Domain, because of the rarity of strange fires, their value was extremely high. Coupled with the fact that both magic potion studies and forging studies required strange fires, their value was even more astonishing.

Once, a fourth-order strange fire led to a scramble among more than a dozen first-rate guilds. After millions of players were killed and wounded, it was finally obtained by Xiong Ba Tian Xia. Soon after, one of Xiong Ba Tian Xia's magic potion masters advanced to become a magic potion grandmaster, greatly increasing Xiong Ba Tian Xia's power.

Seeing the burning strange fire, Shi Feng was extremely yearning. This was the desire of a forger.

Just as Shi Feng was lost in thought, he suddenly thought of something.

In the second month after God's Domain was launched, the third-rate guild Divine Radiance of Light discovered a second-order strange fire, the Icy Blue Demon Flame, in the Hundred Ghost Forest, which was envied by many guilds. At that time, many lifestyle players signed up for Divine Radiance of Light, which greatly increased the strength of Divine Radiance of Light and made it the overlord of a small city. Many guilds secretly inquired, wanting to get the strange fire. Naturally, Shadow Guild was no exception.

They learned the location and method of obtaining the strange fire from within Divine Radiance of Light, but unfortunately, this strange fire only appeared once and never appeared again, leaving many guilds to work in vain.

Thinking of the Icy Blue Demon Flame, Shi Feng immediately had designs on this strange fire. If he could get it, it would definitely be a great help for developing his own guild in the future, and it would also be of great help for him to advance to a forger.

However, if Shi Feng wanted to get the Icy Blue Demon Flame, he still had to plan carefully and prepare a lot of things before he could possibly get it.

Afterwards, Shi Feng didn't waste any more time, took out the design blueprint for the Guardian Armor, and directly chose to learn it.

System: You have learned to forge Guardian Armor.

Afterwards, Shi Feng put all the materials on the stone table, took out the extremely precious Book of Forging, and began to forge.

Shi Feng was a beginner forging apprentice, and the success rate of forging level 0 ordinary equipment was only 20%. After success, there was a 40% chance of obtaining 1 point of proficiency. If he forged the level 3 bronze equipment Guardian Armor, the success rate would definitely be less than 5%. After success, the bronze equipment would have an extra bonus to proficiency, and he could 100% obtain 2 points.

However, to advance to an intermediate forging apprentice, he needed 1000 points of proficiency, which required a huge amount of resources to support. A single lifestyle player couldn't afford it at all.

The guild's lifestyle players all started forging from ordinary equipment. No guild dared to let these players forge bronze equipment from the start. Not to mention not having blueprints, even if they did, they couldn't do it. The success rate was too low, the materials were too expensive, and a single failure would cost more than one silver coin, which no guild could afford. Moreover, they couldn't collect that many materials.

However, Shi Feng didn't have this concern. He had the Philosopher's Stone and didn't lack resources. Moreover, the materials for the Guardian Armor were very cheap, only requiring 5 bottles of magic essence, 5 pieces of bronze ore, and 20 pieces of copper ore, costing only eighty copper coins, which was more than 20 copper coins less than other bronze equipment. The equipment's attributes were excellent, and it was very popular, so he didn't have to worry about not being able to sell it.

Most importantly, there was the Book of Forging.

Having the Book of Forging could increase the success rate of forging ordinary equipment by 70%, bronze equipment by 50%, black iron equipment by 30%, mithril equipment by 20%, fine gold equipment by 10%, dark gold equipment by 5%, and epic equipment by 1%.

It was because of such attributes that players could easily advance to forging masters smoothly.

A beginner apprentice originally had a 20% success rate in forging ordinary equipment, plus 70%, that was a 90% success rate. Plus the equipment in the intermediate forging room, removing the possibility of mistakes, it was also above 99%. Unless he was a pig, it was impossible to fail.

It could be seen how terrifying the Book of Forging was.

As for the Guardian Armor, Shi Feng had a 5% success rate, plus the Book of Forging's 50%, the equipment's 3%, and the effect of the strange fire, that was a 60% success rate. Even if ordinary equipment had a 60% success rate, forging players would go crazy. Not to mention bronze equipment, this was unimaginable for any forging player.

Afterwards, Shi Feng began to slowly create the Guardian Armor according to the requirements of the blueprint. First, he put the copper ore and bronze ore into the fire to quench them. After burning for 5 minutes, the ore melted and gradually fused into a ball. Then, he added magic essence and, after burning for another minute, took out the red-hot ore and placed it on the anvil. The scorching high temperature of the ore made Shi Feng sweat, but Shi Feng didn't dare to be careless. The next step was the most important.

After preparing, Shi Feng picked up the Hundred Refinement Hammer and prepared to strike the hot ore.

Clang clang clang…

Sparks flew everywhere, and the sound echoed throughout the spacious forging room.

Shi Feng was very careful with each strike.

In his previous life, he didn't learn forging, only gathering skills, but he knew a lot about forging. After all, he had chatted with a forging master a lot and had some experience, so he wouldn't make some low-level mistakes.

After striking hundreds of times, Shi Feng felt that it was perfect. Then, he wiped the sweat flowing from his head and carefully clicked on the interface of the red ore, pressing the finish button.

Afterwards, the red ore began to change. In less than five seconds, it turned into a suit of silver-gray armor. The surface didn't seem to have any problems, but whether an equipment was forged successfully or not didn't just depend on the surface. It also depended on the quality. The quality included the equipment's attributes and level.

Some poorly forged bronze equipment would have their level reduced to ordinary, or their basic attributes would not meet the standards, among other problems.

So, Shi Feng opened the armor's data to see if it was successful.