Although Lu Yuan had secretly forged a "mythical" item within Human Civilization, he was actually an outlier and did not represent humanity's normal standards.
Lu Yuan had enjoyed most of Human Civilization's fortune. He also possessed sufficiently powerful talent, a Spirit Attribute as high as 30 points, abundant life experience, and... a vast quantity of precious materials.
Other human craftsmen did not have such conditions.
Humanity's overall standards were actually inferior to Rat Rice Dam's craftsmen and slightly behind the Underground Alliance as well.
What was more, humanity's other craftsmen had yet to forge any Legendary Equipment. That was a major shortcoming.
Of course, that was also related to humanity having developed for fifty fewer years... The fifty years spent in the deep sea, surrounded by ghostly mist, had truly been wasted.
"Legendary Equipment... How does some rookie civilization have Legendary Equipment too? Since when did this stuff become so commonplace?"
Lu Yuan let out a soft breath. "Their technology has reached the Information Age, so that is understandable. After all, physical technology can build upon past development."
"But the Underground Alliance's Idealistic Technology is also excellent. That makes things quite thought-provoking."
"Could a rookie civilization, without any Civilization Ruins at all, produce Excellent Equipment and Legendary Equipment within a hundred years?"
That was actually very difficult. Take glyph research, for example.
Humanity had developed quickly because it possessed a complete inheritance from the previous generation. It only had to study step by step.
But a civilization without an inheritance would be doing well if it managed to invent the most common Sturdy Glyph after fumbling around for a hundred years!
This Underground Alliance clearly knew nothing about the outside world, yet its attainments in forging were fairly impressive. That was truly strange.
"There are two possibilities," Professor Lu Tiantian