Chapter 210 - For the Ring’s Sake (2/2)

"Ahh! Thanks for your patronage," said Smart Tomato with a large smile on his face.

"Don't mention it. I'm sorry, but I have things to attend to now. I'll take my leave." said Jiang Fei as soon as he got the recipes.

"Ding! You have learned to craft Refined Iron Wristguard!"

"Ding! You have learned to craft Solid iron Chestplate!"

Jiang Fei immediately used the recipes and found that they did not take much to make. Jiang Fei was so pleased that he immediately started searching for the materials.

"Brother Ning, I have plans to craft a bulk number of Blue grade equipment. You want some?"

Jiang Fei contacted Han Tianyu via private message.

The message was clear, yet Han Tianyu was not dumb enough to miss out the underlying message, that was "I need materials to craft a large amount of Blue grade equipments!". However, Jiang Fei was still a man of gratitude. The equipment that came out of Jiang Fei's hands were all of top-notch quality. He would not want them to end up in the hands of some random players.

"Give me a number, and I'll have Happy Drunk deliver them to you!"

Han Tianyu went straight to the point. Even if Jiang Fei had blatantly asked for materials, he would never reject him. He was the kind of man that would do anything in the game just to have his fun. The man had money, power, and people. If he wanted something done, he would get it done, by his own way. He had no care for guild benefits, loss, economy, and other trivial matters!

Such a man was both a threat and a nightmare to players like Lady Casanova. The actions of such a man would be akin to the first push of a series of cascaded dominos falling down. The last piece, being the downfall of the other guilds. If such a thing did happen, the other players would not sit quietly about it. If I fall, I'll drag you down with me. A zero-sum game. However, Han Tianyuwould not falter. A man in his position would not care about such a result as long as he had his fun.

Being at the far end of the spectrum in terms of leadership, Han Tianyu had led Fafner in the Azure to a point where the other three major guilds have begun to make their move. From their perspective, Fafner in the Azure was doing things without logic nor fear of consequences. The entire situation would be the same as a group of individuals playing poker. Fafner in the Azure would be the kind of guy that had been winning several games, and the other three major guilds have had their patience tested time and again. It would come to a point where the other guild would be so disgruntled that they would just flip the poker table over; no one gets to play anymore. That was the point that Lady Casanova had reached.

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Upon Han Tianyu's order and consent, Jiang Fei had ordered the materials he needed. However, even though Han Tianyu never asked anything in return, Jiang Fei would never want to just take things off for granted. When Happy Drunk had his men deliver the materials, Jiang Fei immediately started crafting. In his schedule, he had cleared out everything else and planned to craft for the entire day. Green graded recipe had a higher success rate of crafting, after all! All the Green graded equipment crafted would be fed to the ring, while a few Blue ones would be reserved for the Heavy Armored users in his guild. Any surplus would be given to Fafner in the Azure as a means of payment for the materials.

A Level 20 Green graded equipment would take at most 20 seconds to finish. Accounting the time taken to retrieve materials from the storage, Jiang Fei would have crafted two articles of equipment in a minute. The problems arose when there was a mountain of materials and large quantities of equipment to be crafted. Time would be wasted.

Bang! Bang!

Jiang Fei did not stop to ponder about the time wasted and immediately start hammering at the Blacksmith's Workshop. Level 20 Green graded equipment had over 60% when it came to success rates, and a lower 30% Ascended bonus upgrade rate. Statistically, after every 10 sets of material used, Jiang Fei would produce six equipment, of which, two of them would be Blue graded while the rest would be Green graded. This was but a rough estimation since RNG in every game was unpredictable. If the deity of RNG was on your side, you might even produce 10 Blue grade. However, that also meant that you might end up failing all 10 attempts.

As Jiang Fei was busy bringing metal to anvil, he had an idea. He called out for his "pet" Isabella and had her work for him. Being a sentient pet; possessing intelligence and will, she would be Jiang Fei's assistant. As he smithed, the little girl would go back and forth to the bank and fetch him more materials and store all the equipment produced. However, as she was not considered an Adventurer, Isabella did not possess an Inventory system. Everything she carried in her hands was all she could carry.

As a result, she had inadvertently "showed off" the equipment to the entire city. However, Jiang Fei had zero worries for the little girl. She was a Level 34 pet with over 80,000 health points. Her attack power was off the charts, and she could one-hit KO all Light and Cloth armored players. Tank type players would last only for three to four hits before being minced meat. That, and the fact that no one could attack anyone in the city. A single player would never survive if they tried anything on the girl, or even an entire guild!

One by one, Jiang Fei stored all the useless Ascended equipment into the red slot of the ring's storage and let it have its time "eating it." Eventually, the familiar marking on the ring appeared. Even though the progress was painstakingly slow, Jiang Fei had thrown in several hours of work into it. It was worth every drop of blood and sweat.