Chapter 23 Runestone Steel

After seeing the system notification, Shi Feng smiled slightly.

After making more than four hundred high-grade sharpening stones, he had finally been promoted to an intermediate blacksmith apprentice, but he still needed 3,000 proficiency points to advance to a high-level apprentice. It would be impossible in a short time.

Shi Feng glanced at his experience points. He was already at level 9, 94%. He was only 6% away from the level 10 mark. He could break through with a little more effort.

In God's Domain, there would be a significant attribute boost every 10 levels.

The first level 10 marked that players could go to cities. Not only could they buy resources that were not available in towns, but they could also get more advanced quests, making it easier to earn money. They could even buy cheap bronze equipment in the city, but this depended on luck. In addition, players could use portals to go to high-level monster areas without spending too much time running, quickly reaching level 10 or higher monster areas and many other conveniences.

Moreover, entering the city meant that the game God's Domain truly began.

At that time, dozens or hundreds of towns' players would gather in the city. A city would have at least hundreds of thousands of players. Baihe City was the fifth largest city in the Star-Moon Kingdom. The number of players gathered in Baihe City would exceed one million. At that time, various guilds could fully gather their guild forces together and exert the true strength of each guild. This would also make the competition between guilds more intense and not as peaceful as it is now. They would compete for various resources.

Virtual games were like this. Resources were limited, and there were only so many of the best resources and leveling locations in a city, but the number of players was extremely large. If you wanted to level up quickly and improve quickly, you had to compete. Those without strength would be eliminated.

Small guilds could not survive in the city at all, let alone free players. Various high-level resources and good leveling areas were snatched by large guilds. Small guilds and free players could only nest in areas with poor resources.

So, the sooner you go to the city, the less competition there will be.

However, it was not that the earlier you went to the city, the better. The more advantages you have, the better it is to go to the city.

Just like going to Blackwing City, ordinary players would only go for sightseeing, which was a pure waste of time, but it was very different for the high-level members of large guilds. In addition to sharing resources, they also had money to buy a large number of items that were not available in other cities, which was not a small improvement for the guild.

Now, Shi Feng's level was definitely the first in Baihe City. It would take at least two or three days for others to catch up to his current level. Taking advantage of this time, Shi Feng wanted to further expand his advantages so that the Zero Wing Workshop he founded could have a place in Baihe City.

"This is Runestone Steel. It really is a treasure." Shi Feng took out a blue metal block full of magical energy from his backpack, filled with joy.

In his previous life, many blacksmiths fought to the point of bloodshed for a piece of Runestone Steel. Even if they bought it, they would treat it as a treasure and never use it easily.

But now he got 10 pieces.

Runestone Steel, a Fine-Gold grade consumable, increases the success rate by 10% when used in forging equipment below level 50 Fine-Gold grade, and has a certain chance to upgrade the equipment by one grade, up to Fine-Gold grade.

No matter how you look at it, Runestone Steel was much stronger than Refined Steel, not to mention improving the quality of the equipment.

"Hahaha, with Runestone Steel, my success rate in forging Silver Dawn will be even greater."

Shi Feng had previously collected all the materials for making Silver Dawn in the auction house. Including the ones he collected before, he could only make 16 pieces of Silver Dawn. The cost of each Silver Dawn alone was more than 37 silver coins. Even an elite team would have to go to a difficult-level small dungeon at least five or six times to earn more than 37 silver.

That's why Shi Feng chose to advance to an intermediate apprentice before forging Silver Dawn.

Afterwards, Shi Feng took out the Silver Dawn design drawing, clicked to learn it, and began to make the first Silver Dawn.

Before, without Ice-Blue Devil Flame, the success rate was only 32%. After adding Ice-Blue Devil Flame, it was 42%. If Runestone Steel was used, it would be 52%. An intermediate blacksmith apprentice had a 50% success rate of creating mithril-grade weapons. Even a forging master would be dumbfounded.

Because even a beginner forging master only had a 30% success rate of creating mithril-grade equipment, 50% was a level that only a grandmaster could achieve.

After carefully reading how to make Silver Dawn, Shi Feng began to refine the materials.

First, he used the Philosopher's Stone to refine the materials to a high purity, and then put them into the Ice-Blue Devil Flame to melt. Waiting for the materials to fuse, with Shi Feng's 100% control of the Ice-Blue Devil Flame, the material fusion was quite good.

However, Shi Feng was not in a hurry to put in the precious Runestone Steel.

The first time was to familiarize himself with the forging process, and there were only 10 pieces of Runestone Steel. Its inherent value exceeded 1 gold, which was extremely rare. Putting it in now was simply too wasteful. If other blacksmiths saw it, they would probably scold Shi Feng for being shameless and vomit blood.

It was just forging a level 10 mithril-grade weapon, and he was actually thinking of using Runestone Steel. This kind of behavior was simply maddening.

Ten minutes later, the melting was completed. Shi Feng was very satisfied when he saw it. He put the metal block on the anvil, took the Rune Iron Hammer, and began to strike.

Sparks flew, and the sound of the hammer echoed throughout the forging room.

Shi Feng struck each time very carefully, fearing that any step was wrong, affecting the final formation.

After striking hundreds of times, Shi Feng was already sweating profusely and felt very satisfied. He carefully clicked Generate.

Immediately, the fiery red metal block began to take shape, turning into a silver-white long sword.

He clicked Data View again.

After a full 5 seconds.

System: Silver Dawn forging failed.

Shi Feng looked at the attributes and found that it was only level 10 Mysterious Iron grade. It was indeed a failure, but Shi Feng was not disappointed. It was said that the success rate was 42%, but this was the first time forging Silver Dawn. The success rate must be far below this value. Wanting to succeed was impossible. If it really succeeded, it would be a miracle.

With failure, Shi Feng began to summarize his experiences and lessons.

The reason he could lead Youying from a third-rate bottom guild to a second-rate top guild was not because he was so talented, but because he always summarized the lessons of failure.

If others learned from success, then Shi Feng learned from failure.

After reviewing for more than ten minutes, Shi Feng began the second forging.

More than twenty minutes later, it still failed. What was created was still Mysterious Iron grade, but there was some progress, and the attributes were improved a lot.

He forged until the sixth time, with losses exceeding 2 gold.

Shi Feng felt that it was about time and began the seventh forging, and also used Runestone Steel.

Then, he melted, struck, and formed it.

Click Generate.

Suddenly, a delicate long sword of light blue color was formed. Many mysterious runes were engraved on the sword body, and there was a faint flow of magical energy. At a glance, it was not an ordinary product.

Shi Feng was immediately excited. He knew that this time his luck must have exploded. It was not just a simple success.

"I wonder what the attributes are like." Shi Feng clicked Attribute View.

It took a full 10 seconds before the system gave the result.

System: Runestone Steel effect triggered, quality increased by one level.

System: Black Iron Insignia effect triggered, attribute increased.

System: Silver Lake Light forging successful, increase forging proficiency by 3 points, gain 10,000 experience points.