Chapter 2859: Frontline (29)

Zhao Chi silently looked at the fashion item in his hand.

The shoddily-made fashion item was indeed somewhat different from a standard one; just from the appearance, it looked a bit off.

It lacked the delicate and luxurious feel of a standard fashion item.

But even so, its texture was still far better than ordinary super-improved fashion items. Even the reduced-material version of the fashion item already far surpassed the standard fashion item.

But… it still wasn't enough!

There was still room to go lower!

If calculated based on the World-Breaking Army's 100 million fashion items and the White Tiger Regiment's 30 million fashion items, this crafting time was still too long.

He needed to keep cutting it down!

One more time!

Zhao Chi once again carefully cut corners on materials.

Another 2 Quick-Craft Talismans later, Zhao Chi succeeded in reducing the durability of all premium fashion items to 30 points, wearable for 1 month. Standard fashion items' durability was reduced to 15 days, wearable for half a month.

However, the failure rate had already dropped below 1%, but the crafting time had been reduced to about one-sixth of the original!

This was the only way it could be!

This was the limit of cutting corners.

Zhao Chi was very satisfied.

But while fashion items could be modified this way, equipment could not.

After all, equipment durability was extremely important, especially armor—basically, it lived off durability.

It was impossible to reduce crafting time by cutting durability.

But it didn't matter.

Anyway, with only this short half-month, it was simply impossible to take care of everything. Being able to craft all the fashion items was already pretty good; who could still worry about equipment?

Then he'd focus on fashion items.

Moreover, even if he went all-out crafting fashion items, it would be hard to finish 100 million of them, let alone having to supply the nobles—the fashion item shortfall would only grow larger.

With this, weapons and armor could only be temporarily abandoned.

But Zhao Chi would share the techniques and still let the female blacksmiths teach; whoever had the ability to craft could go ahead and do it.

He contacted Yao Feng.

Zhao Chi 【Regiment Commander, I've finished the modifications on my end and have re-authorized. You can activate the commission now.】

Yao Feng 【Alright, I'll start right away. Remember to click agree.】

Zhao Chi 【Okay.】

Soon, the first prompt arrived:

【World-Breaking Army - White Tiger Regiment Commander - Yao Feng, is applying for the crafting license of your territory's "Monthly-Use Speed-Type Stockings" fashion technology. Do you agree?】

Zhao Chi named these fashion items with only 30 points of durability, adding a unified prefix "Monthly-Use" to all of them. After all, they could only be used for one month, so this made them easy to distinguish.

Click agree!

【World-Breaking Army - White Tiger Regiment Commander - Yao Feng, is applying for the crafting license of your territory's "Monthly-Use Defense-Type Stockings" fashion technology. Do you agree?】

Agree!

Agree! Agree! Agree!

All agreed!

Everything Zhao Chi released had already been authorized by him; there was no need to look closely, just agree to everything.

Yao Feng 【Zhao Chi, thank you very much.】

Zhao Chi 【You're welcome, Regiment Commander.】

Yao Feng 【I'll be passing through Iron Bridge Village shortly. I'll hand over the 7 Mystic Woman Ruler fragments and 2 Supreme Unity Wheel fragments I obtained to you first.】

Zhao Chi 【That fast?】

Yao Feng 【Haha, they were all scrounged from those vice regiment commanders and chief captains, of course it was fast. Also, about those 2000 master-level artisan teachers you mentioned—can I take them away now?】

Zhao Chi 【Now?】

Yao Feng 【Yes. I want your artisans to teach in my territory, so I can protect their safety as much as possible, and also conveniently coordinate everyone's artisans to come together for training.】

Zhao Chi 【No problem.】

Yao Feng 【I'll arrive in about 10 minutes. Bring them to "Phoenix Cloud Province."】

Zhao Chi 【Okay!】

Zhao Chi immediately summoned Ding Dang and Feng Xiu, telling each of them to pick out 1000 qualified female artisans.

Then he explained the situation to them.

They, of course, completely obeyed Zhao Chi's words.

Zhao Chi now had a good impression of Yao Feng, and trusted that Yao Feng would treat them well.

Moreover, they could resurrect, so even if they died it would be fine… there was no need to worry about safety at all.

Ten minutes later, Zhao Chi brought the 2000 female artisans and teleported to Phoenix Cloud Province.

This time, the coordinates Yao Feng gave were no longer outside the Lord's Manor, but a small plaza. The plaza was laid with a red carpet and flowers, with her subordinates on both sides.

The moment Zhao Chi and the others arrived, warm applause rang out.

The scene was quite enthusiastic.

Who would have thought that in such a short time, Yao Feng had actually organized a simple yet warm welcome ceremony?

It seemed he really did value this highly.

Yao Feng stood beside Zhao Chi, stared at the female artisans for a while with a very strange look, then turned to Zhao Chi with a complicated gaze.

"I really didn't expect… Zhao Chi, where did you find so many little beauties? Were they all personally selected and trained by you?"

Yao Feng didn't know that the Taoyuan Clan were naturally as beautiful as elves, and assumed Zhao Chi had carefully picked them out.

"Mm… I suppose so."

"You kid, are you really into women?"

"N-no… not really."

"Not really?" Yao Feng laughed. "If not, then who would go to the trouble of handpicking so many pretty little sisters?"

Yao Feng's tone was somewhat teasing.

Zhao Chi explained, "After all… they look pleasing to the eye."

Yao Feng laughed. "They really are pleasing to the eye. Every one of these sisters is young and gorgeous. I'll take good care of them — I won't let your little beauties feel wronged."

"Alright…"

Yao Feng switched into business mode and said:

"These items are for you. I've already sent word for the supplies you need, but the results will take a little while.

"Besides your tech, quite a few other lords' techs have been shared one after another. You can check them on our White Tiger Group page.

"By tomorrow, I expect the lords of the entire Snowfield City World-Breaking Army will also be sharing their tech in turn. If anything interests you, just tell me, and I'll send someone to ask them for the key insights into the crafting steps.

"But honestly, I've looked at all the other lords' tech, and it's nowhere near the same level as yours. I'm just afraid you won't be interested at all.

"If you have any problems, just come to me. I'll do my best to handle them for you."