Chapter 1 While in the Forge

In the two days that Shi Feng had been working in the forge, many players who had just entered the city were amazed.

They never thought the city would have such benefits.

Sharpening Stones were no longer the private property of guilds, and rare Intermediate Recovery Potions and Intermediate Mana Recovery Potions could be bought at the Starstreak Trading Firm, which had a more complete selection than other trading firms.

The most important thing was that Advanced Sharpening Stones were sold in limited quantities every day, becoming a trademark of the Starstreak Trading Firm. In addition, the exchange mechanism ensured a steady supply of Tough Stones, almost balancing the consumption.

Because of these advantages, the Starstreak Trading Firm instantly gained a dominant position in eight cities, overwhelming other trading firms.

In these two days, players hardly went to other places to buy things. They could buy everything they needed at the Starstreak Trading Firm in one go, and the Starstreak Trading Firm's business became more and more booming.

In these two days, a major event also occurred in White River City.

Even Shi Feng, who was engrossed in research, was shocked.

More than a dozen guilds suddenly banded together and reorganized into one guild, causing a sensation throughout White River City.

Many second- and third-rate guilds in White River City also began to feel nervous. They began to improve guild benefits and continuously poach people, while also accelerating the merger of other small guilds. As for other insignificant guilds, they formed alliances to contend with these second- and third-rate guilds in order to protect themselves.

White River City, which had originally been a scene of a hundred schools of thought contending, directly entered a new era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

In fact, the integration of more than a dozen insignificant guilds did not have much impact on the second- and third-rate guilds. It was just that the core of this integration was the top third-rate guild, Dark Star.

What was most surprising was that the Guild Leader of Dark Star had changed. Only Me, Mad and Arrogant somehow became the Guild Leader of Dark Star. The previous Guild Leader was also expelled from the guild, leaving with nothing.

Originally, Dark Star had Only Me, Mad and Arrogant, who was ranked first on the level leaderboard, and had also won several first kills of dungeons. Before, they could also compete with the Assassin's Alliance, but their foundation was insufficient. Now that Only Me, Mad and Arrogant had become the Guild Leader, they had swallowed so many guilds at once, and many mysterious experts had joined. They had successively won the first kills of two Heroic Team Dungeons, one of which was the first kill of a twenty-man Team Dungeon.

This once again greatly increased Dark Star's reputation, no longer inferior to the Assassin's Alliance, and even surpassing it.

Now, Dark Star's power and influence in White River City alone are no less than that of a first-rate guild, and it has become one of the overlords of White River City.

In fact, this matter had nothing to do with Shi Feng, but Dark Star didn't know what had gotten into them. The first thing Only Me, Mad and Arrogant did after integrating these guilds was to put a bounty on Shi Feng.

Moreover, the price was not low. As long as they could kill Shi Feng back to level zero, they would directly promise five million credits and the position of Elder in Dark Star. Killing him once would also earn 200,000 credits.

Such a price was definitely sky-high for a virtual game.

Now, the annual salary for major consortiums to recruit top well-known experts in the virtual game world is only around five million credits, and Shi Feng is not a big shot from a first-rate guild. Such a bounty price completely created a new virtual game world bounty record.

Many people expressed sympathy for Shi Feng. Although they didn't know what feud Only Me, Mad and Arrogant had with Shi Feng, this domineering bounty undoubtedly made many free players want to develop in Dark Star even more.

However, in Shi Feng's view, Only Me, Mad and Arrogant was simply a madman. He just snatched a first kill of a dungeon, was it necessary to be so ruthless?

Moreover, Shi Feng couldn't understand when Dark Star had become so powerful that it could integrate more than a dozen insignificant large guilds in such a short period of time. These guilds had at least one or two thousand people and at most five or six thousand people, but Dark Star could swallow them all in one go, and could digest them all in one go, as if these guilds were one guild from the beginning. The foundation was incredibly strong, even the Assassin's Alliance was far behind.

Although Dark Star is now extremely powerful, wanting to put a bounty on Shi Feng's head is simply a joke in Shi Feng's view.

If Shi Feng was just an ordinary expert, he would probably already be trembling and would 100% be unable to stay in White River City, but Shi Feng is not an ordinary expert. In this *God's Domain* that everyone is not familiar with, he is a Swordsman expert with ten years of *God's Domain* combat experience.

Now, Only Me, Mad and Arrogant, who is ranked first on the White River City level leaderboard, is only level 14, but Shi Feng has recovered to level 16 during this period of forging Advanced Sharpening Stones. The difference in experience points between them is not just a little bit.

With such a level and equipment, Shi Feng dares to fight even those peerless experts from his previous life, so how could he be afraid of Dark Star.

However, this time Shi Feng cannot put a bounty on the Martial Union in Red Leaf Town like last time, because no one in White River City dares to touch Dark Star's tiger butt, and there are too many members of Dark Star. Even if Shi Feng loses all his wealth, it will not be enough, and Shi Feng is very short of money now, both gold coins and credits.

So Shi Feng chose to directly ignore Dark Star and do his own thing.

In this way, Shi Feng, on the one hand, was in Dark Star's sky-high bounty, and on the other hand, he was leisurely staying in the forge to make Mana Armor Plates.

Mana Armor Plates are much stronger than ordinary Armor Plates, because ordinary Armor Plates only increase defense power and have very few attributes, unlike Mana Armor Plates which can increase a lot of attributes, and both plate armor and cloth armor can be improved. The production materials are also very common, and no expensive rare materials are needed.

Basic Mana Armor Plates only need 10 Copper Ores and 3 Bronze Ores plus a bottle of Basic Recovery Potion or a bottle of Basic Mana Recovery Potion. They can respectively make physical and magical Basic Armor Plates. After being bound to the equipment, the physical Armor Plates can increase 80 points of defense, Strength +3, Endurance +4, Agility +3, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. The magical Armor Plates can increase 30 points of defense, Intelligence +3, Endurance +4, Spirit +3, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. Basic Mana Armor Plates can only be bound to equipment above level 10, and equipment below level 10 cannot be bound.

Intermediate Mana Armor Plates only need 15 Iron Ores and 5 Fine Iron Ores plus a bottle of Intermediate Recovery Potion or a bottle of Intermediate Mana Recovery Potion. After being bound to the equipment, the physical Armor Plates can increase 200 points of defense, Strength +10, Endurance +12, Agility +10, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. The magical Armor Plates can increase 60 points of defense, Intelligence +10, Endurance +12, Spirit +10, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. Intermediate Mana Armor Plates can only be bound to equipment above level 25, and equipment below level 25 cannot be bound.

Advanced Mana Armor Plates only need 20 Silver Ores and 8 Mithril Ores plus two bottles of Advanced Recovery Potions or two bottles of Advanced Mana Recovery Potions. After being bound to the equipment, the physical Armor Plates can increase 400 points of defense, Strength +30, Endurance +40, Agility +30, reduce up to 50 points of damage, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. The magical Armor Plates can increase 150 points of defense, Intelligence +30, Endurance +40, Spirit +30, Spell Damage +100, and can be bound to a maximum of 3. Intermediate Mana Armor Plates can only be bound to equipment above level 50, and equipment below level 50 cannot be bound.

As long as three Mana Armor Plates are bound, it is no less than having an extra piece of superb equipment. Whether it is fighting or dungeon crawling, there is a great improvement. What player can resist such a temptation?