(So I decided that when using the real world names of some characters I'll just translate their gamer names since we don't know most of their real names. My reason for this is that a part of their gaming names come from their real names. Like how Gentle Snow's real name is Bai Qingxue and Snow translate to Xue, and depending on how the word is used Gentle translate to Qingrou. Baise means white which comes from the name of her family's company the White Clan Group. I'll use these names mainly when the characters are talking to family and stuff.)
Been! Beeb! Beeb!
That was the sound of Shi Feng's gaming pod opening its hatch. As he got up, Shi Feng started to stench his arms and torso to loosen up. Before anything else he checked how much solution was left in the container.
"Wow, I'm nearly at the reserves. I really did a lot this past week."
He had been in God's Domain for about six days straight. In that time he had entered the True Domain realm and made some progress in the realms of truth. This update will be a perfect chance for him to stretch his body in the real world and get caught up with the Zero Wing workshop's and Heaven Rumble's matters.
He had decided to put the system update in the back of his head. That was his first time ever hearing an update like that, so he doesn't know what to expect.
Constantly worrying over it isn't healthy so he might as well work with the things he has control of like the free story update and prepare for the unexpected.
After exiting his pod he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. After washing his face he looked at himself in the mirror.
Over the past year he has undergone a bit of a transformation. He has become much more muscular than he was a year ago. His physique is what most people would call the perfect ratio. Not skinny whatsoever but not overly big and bulky like bodybuilders and strongmen.
It was what people would see from men on the cover of athletic or model magazines. His muscles were also compact and clearly defined. You can tell they contained a lot of power.
Not only that but his facial features were more toned, his cheekbones nice and jawline as sharp as a knife. His hair grew a notch longer reaching the tip of his shoulders and he even started to grow a beard and mustache.
Zhoa Yueru, Qinxue, and the other girls are constantly telling him to shave it off but he likes it. He feels like a wise elder with it.
Shi Feng definitely wasn't the definition of male beauty but he was considerably above average now. He tied his hair up into a man bun and went about the rest of his routine.
Shi Feng took out a bottle of S rank nutrient fluids and drank it. After drinking this for so long I don't even feel the burn any more.
He then sat on his bed and meditated for an hour using the breathing technique Lee Jun taught him. After an hour of that, Shi Feng fixed up a nutritious meal and turned on the tv.
Sitting in front of his tv he spoke to the AI assistant, "Guanyin, turn the channel to the SPG Channel."
Just as he asked, the channel was then changed to the Secret Pavilion's channel. For the latest and best gaming news and anything related, the Secret Pavilion's gaming channel was the go to place.
(Lol the Secret Pavilion has a YouTube channel now)
God's Domain is a huge place and it's impossible for any one person to stay up to date with all the latest news about emerging experts, events, rising guilds and more.
Luckily the Secret Pavilion is a reliable source for all that and even though their news channel only reveals information that can be easily found, it's a great source to stay informed and up to date about the happenings of things outside your kingdom and empire.
Before the SPG News channel used to talk about other games, but God's Domain is the only game people play nowadays, so they only focus on it.
The typical handsome male and beautiful female news anchors sat at their desk as they spoke about the random things that happened lately in the game. None of these things caught Shi Feng's interest until he saw something about Zero Wing.
The beauty on the television displayed a video as she spoke, "and right before the update an intense battle in the Beast capital city occurred over a special item. The main players were members of the Battle Wolves, Death Razor team, Sky Dragon House's Horned Dragon team, Zero Wing's Vermilion Eagle team, and Pantheon's Golden Gods team just to name a few."
The male anchor continued. "This might be one of the most intense large scale battles to ever occur in God's Domain to date."
"That's right Lu Fang. The techniques and skills displayed here were phenomenal. I think the stand outs have to be Zero Wing's Lonely Snow. The berserker is definitely a peak expert that can compete with many of the old monsters out there. While working with the Death Razor's team captain the two of them were able to pin down three other parties by themselves."
The battle video of the specific part of the battle she was talking about showed on the screen. In it, Lonely Snow's figure rampaged throughout the battlefield as he displayed his terrifying prowess. Even Shi Feng was starting to get hype looking at the fight.
The male news man intervened as he said, "Zero Wing really has a lot of amazing people. But I think the MVP of this battle has to be Soundless. Not even the peak experts there could detect him as he effortlessly snuck his way through the battle and almost pocketed the item for himself."
"I agree. If it wasn't for the mutant dragon, Soundless would have gotten the item to. Unfortunately many of the groups there suffered some losses thanks to the dragon."
Normally the Secret Pavilion wouldn't show a battle between superpowers fighting over a special item. But even Third Rate Guilds were in the vicinity so it became a public matter.
The video of the battle showed Soundless about to claim the item when the mutant dragon appeared from the sky and caused mayhem.
When Shi Feng saw the special item his eyes widened. "That's a magic star!" He couldn't help but blurt out. He needed two more magic stars to turn the Heavenly Dragon Breath into a legendary item. Unfortunately magic stars are finite and any that currently exist on God's Domain continent are in the hands of NPCs or in treasure chests.
Magic stars have more energy than even seven luminaries crystals so most NPCs refuse to sell theirs. He doesn't even know what NPCs will be in possession of such an item as a player will need a close relationship with said NPC to even find out they have a magic star.
Very special Wandering Merchants might be willing to sell. He heard of four such incidents happening in his past life because the players who bought the magic stars made a huge deal out of their purchase.
These wandering merchants will only visit advanced ranked cities at the very least. He is only guaranteed one magic star when he turns level 150 and completes the quest for it and will have to hunt down the others.
"I should tell Lonely to get that magic star no matter the cause." If he didn't have to go to the Runed Mountain Range, he would've gone to Beast City and taken the item himself.
After watching a little more, Shi Feng turned off his tv and went to go workout. After exiting his gaming pod, he noticed that he has more energy than usual and his mind was extremely active. It's time to put that into good use.
After putting on his tracksuit and shoes, he left his room making his way down to the gym. He decided to walk into the office to see how things are going.
As he walked in everyone who saw him started greeting him and bowing to say hello. Many people had reverential looks as they did so. Shi Feng could only awkwardly respond and keep moving.
At this point, it is no secret that Shi Feng is Black Flame and Ye Feng, Zero Wings guild leader and workshop manager. His capabilities beyond even veterans in the field of business. Many companies have even tried recruiting him, offering 7 figure salaries or more.
Shi Feng reached a corner office and when he entered he saw a busy sight. Liang Jing was speaking on the phone using her Bluetooth, while one hand was filling out papers and documents and the other was typing out emails on the other.
She didn't even notice Shi Feng enter the room and sit down on the couch. "You look busy Ling Jing," he said.
"Oh my! I didn't even notice you there guild leader, my apologies," she blurted out.
"It's fine. Uhh, what's all this? I didn't think we were so backed up with work that it would get to this level."
"Well you see guild leader, ever since the establishment of Rising Wing City, things have just exploded. Many clothing and fashion companies wish to offer us brand deals for the Zero Wing logo and some of the guild members famous weapons. Two of them being the CS Fashion corp and the Five States corporation!"
"There are also many shows that want our members to guest star in them or do commercials! We even got movie deal offers!"
"Oh! Many of the Heaven Rumble disciples are displaying excellent results in the fight tournaments. We keep getting calls relating to that! Manager Xioa is talking to some famous martial arts master to bring them into the dojo. Phoenix Rain side concerning Rising Wing City has heated up too, me and Vice Guild Leader Aqua have to help here and there!"
Liang Jing went on and on. Even though she was drowning in work she was excited. Back in the Big Dipper Dojo she would never have gotten the chance to work with so many big and influential corporations and businesses. She has even distinguished herself and built up some powerful connections.
Listening to Liang Jing ramble on made Shi Feng have a bitter smile. "Liang Jing!"
Hearing Shi Feng's voice, Liang Jing quickly stopped and sat up straight. "Yes sir?" She realized she had gone on and on.
"Why don't you take a day off today," Shi Feng said.
When she heard that tears started to form in her eyes. "Did I do something wrong Sir?" She thought that she had messed up and Shi Feng telling her to take a day off at such a crucial time is a way to distance her from the workshop slowly and eventually fire her. She had seen similar situations happen many times.
"Don't cry. I genuinely want you to take a day off and refresh your batteries. Go to the spa, do some shopping, or go on a date with your boyfriend. I know you've been working nonstop for a while and that's not good. Take this system update as a chance to relax alright."
Before it wasn't safe for members of Zero Wing to go outside due to his identity leaking. But now that the various guilds and corporations know that he is not to be trifled with he doesn't have to worry much about his people's safety.
Liang Jing looked around her. "Uh, what about all this work? The people qualified to do it are all busy as well," she asked.
"It's fine. I'll handle it," Shi Feng said.
"You Guild Leader?"
"Yeah I'll take care of it. Have somebody send it all to my office later. So go out and enjoy your day. But when you return I'll work you even harder alright." Even though he hardly does paper work now, he had done tons of it as Shadow's Guild Leader. Doing paperwork is ingrained into his body at this point.
"Ok then guild leader, I'll take you up on your offer." Liang Jing got her stuff and walked out the office with Shi Feng. "Oh Sir, Vice Guild Leader Aqua wants to know if you will be attending the Sun and Moon Party. She said you have to go or you will hear a lecture."
Shi Feng laughed bitterly. "Tell her I'll be there, and on time, so there's no need for a lecture." Even though he is no longer as antisocial as he was in his college years he still isn't a big party guy. Normally he will try to get out of going to such events but the Sun and Moon corporation have made headway on the formula he had given them.
Since Aqua is his friend he has to go and show his support whenever he can.
After his workout he spent the day doing tons of work. He rejected most commercial offers for his guild mates. These companies were trying to promote some items that Shi Feng knew weren't that well received in his past life. He didn't want his guild associated with it.
Any matters concerning Heaven Rumble was left to Manager Xioa, Lei Bao, and Lei Lee Jun.
After working for the whole day Shi Feng finally finished his work. Violet Cloud came into his office with a box and a fruit basket. "Big Brother Feng, this package came for you," she said as she handed him both items.
"It arrived faster than I thought." He opened the package as he started eating an apple.
When Violet saw what was inside she grew curious. Even though she has never seen any of the items in person before, she can only describe them as spy equipment for tracking people and recording their locations.
"Big Brother Feng, are you trying to hunt somebody down?"
Shi Feng smiled and said, "there are some things I need to confirm while I'm at the Sun and Moon party. By the way, are you sure you don't want to come with us? It's not everyday we get to see Aqua and Summer in real life."
Violet shook her head side to side saying no. "Even though it would be nice to see Big Sis Aqua and Big Sis Summer, I don't think I will be too comfortable at such a fancy and high class party."
Shi Feng understood where Violet was coming from. He had to slowly adjust to such situations as well when he became guild leader of shadow. Many of The core upper echelons felt the same way as Violet and didn't want to go as well.
Shi Feng got up, "well it's okay if you don't want to go now but you should get used to things like that if you were to someday lead the guild."
When she heard that Violet immediately became flustered as a multitude of emotions overwhelmed her. "Big Brother Feng, what do you mean?!?"
"Don't think too much into it. I won't be going anywhere for a very long time and there's a lot of other people to consider. Who knows what the future may hold," he said that as he left his office. Although he said that passingly, he did somewhat mean it. What Zero Wing needs is more leaders. Violet, Ye Wumain, Cola, Fire, and a few others were perfect candidates for that.
It's best if he starts getting them into that mindset early on so they can slowly build up their skills. If anything were to happen to him or any of his Vice Guild leaders, then Zero Wing can still manage relatively smoothly.
Even though Violet didn't say anything she tightened her fist and inwardly swore to try harder.
Shi Feng backed a small bag filled with essentials for the trip. He then made his way to the limo waiting downstairs.
"Brother Feng, hurry up. It would be rude to be late for Big Sis Aqua's party," Blackie urged Shi Feng, seeing him walking slowly.
The Three Star Bodyguard from the Silver Sword Protection Agency politely opened the door for Shi Feng as he made his way into the limo. "Your awfully excited Blackie."
"Ofcourse I am. When was the last time we got to just hang out and enjoy ourselves. And we will also be surrounded by beauties as well. Tonight will be a day to remember," Blackie said enthusiastically.
On the other side Zhoa Yueru shot an annoyed look at Blackie and said, "what are the beauties here not enough for you. You sure have a big appetite."
"Tsk, tsk. Ms Yueru, a wise man once said never mix pleasure and business, it never ends well. And after multiple lessons I have learned to live by those words," Blackie shamelessly said.
Shi Feng and the others laughed. Sorry Blackie we won't be able to party for long. I'll only be going there for business.
The group then made their way to the airport.