"A semi-legendary chest in the Forging Hall?"
In his previous life, he had never even laid eyes on an epic-grade chest—he'd only heard rumors about them. Semi-legendary chests, meanwhile, were merely the stuff of legend in the Divine Realm. Whether such chests actually existed was still a matter of speculation online. After all, obtaining a semi-legendary chest meant that, barring terrible luck, you'd walk away with a fragment of a legendary item.
No exaggeration—a single legendary item fragment could change the fate of any Divine Realm player.
Epic-grade items were something every major guild in the Divine Realm could get their hands on, and in decent quantities too. But legendary item fragments? Not every top-tier guild even had one. Even a decade from now, first-rate guilds would own only a handful at most. And any expert who obtained a legendary item fragment was invariably placed under heavy guard by the guild—no fewer than a twenty-person elite team accompanied them wherever they went.
The reasoning was simple. They feared that the top-tier expert carrying a legendary item fragment might be ambushed. Even though such players were already terrifyingly powerful on their own, being singled out for a coordinated attack could still cost them their lives. Hence the elite bodyguard teams to guard against the unexpected.
And yet, even with all those precautions, ambushes still occurred every single day in the Divine Realm.
That alone spoke volumes about how desperately the major guilds coveted legendary item fragments, and how impossibly rare they were.
Shi Feng had never imagined that stepping into the interior of the Fallen Ark would yield such a prize. It was almost too good to be true—far exceeding anything the rumors had promised.
But after a moment's thought, he realized it made perfect sense.
When people had first discovered the Fallen Ark, it had already been entered before. Those predecessors had surely conducted a thorough sweep of its treasures. On top of that, the super-guilds that had killed the Abyssal overseers inside had probably taken everything easy to grab. By the time the masses of players subsequently flooded in, what remained would have been precious little. Even so, the haul was still staggering.
Right now, they were the very first team to clear the Fallen Ark. So encountering a semi-legendary chest—something he had never even seen in his previous life—wasn't that strange at all.
When the others heard Huo Wu's report, every one of them lit up with burning desire. In an era when epic-grade items were already vanishingly rare, the mere thought of getting their hands on a legendary item fragment was almost too much to imagine.
Among the group, only a scant few—Hei Zi, Shuise Qiangwei, Bai Qingxue, Huo Wu, and a handful of others—knew that the
"What's the situation over there?" Shi Feng asked softly, calming himself.
"The spot where the semi-legendary chest is placed has a very powerful trap array set up. But inside the Forging Hall, there are two statues that emit a faint aura of pressure. I suspect they might be guardians, so I didn't dare get close. I'm not sure yet whether I can disarm the trap array on the chest."
Huo Wu promptly uploaded the images she had captured to the team chat.
Shi Feng had already warned her that beyond the main trap arrays in the inner zone, some areas also had stationary guardian monsters. She needed to be extremely cautious, which was why she had noticed the two decorative-looking statues.
After carefully examining the transmitted images, Shi Feng nodded. "Your assessment is correct. Those are indeed two guardians—and not ordinary ones at that. They're Primordial Species: Fossil Tyrannosaurs."
He had seen Fossil Tyrannosaurs before, back in his previous life. At the time, a super-guild had dispatched an army of over ten thousand along with numerous top-tier experts to hunt one down. Slaying a single Fossil Tyrannosaur had cost the expedition more than eighty percent of its forces…
"Primordial Species? You mean like the monsters we ran into in the Titan Labyrinth?" Shuise Qiangwei exclaimed in shock.
She knew firsthand just how terrifying Primordial Species were. If the original magic array hadn't severely suppressed the Lord of Decay, they would never have stood a chance against it. And now there were two of them?
Even Shi Feng was quite taken aback.
According to the intelligence he'd gathered, the interior of the Fallen Ark was supposed to contain nothing besides special lifeforms and Abyssal monsters. Two Primordial Species suddenly showing up was completely beyond his expectations.
"No wonder they'd store a semi-legendary chest in someplace as conspicuous as the Forging Hall," Shi Feng muttered, a headache already forming.
As Primordial Species, they were at least a cut above special lifeforms.