The players gathered at the entrance of the
Everyone had already witnessed the Frozen King's terror firsthand.
Not only did it possess domain suppression, but its destructive power was beyond what any current player could hope to match. The human wave tactics that worked against everything else were completely useless against the Frozen King, to say nothing of a mere thousand-strong army.
After all, even a level-44 Shield Warrior with over 40,000 HP who activated Shield Wall—that last-resort life-saving skill—had been killed in a single hit by the Frozen King.
Without even a main tank who could withstand the Frozen King's attacks, how could anyone possibly attempt a clear?
Even if Zero Wing's thousand-strong army was formidable, it would still be a joke in front of the Frozen King.
"Guild Master, they're not seriously going to try and clear it, are they?" Zi Tong asked, watching the Zero Wing army draw ever closer to the Frozen King with unconcealed curiosity.
"Hard to say. But
In his view, defeating the Frozen King would probably require every single member of the party to advance to Tier 2 job classes. Anything less would be pointless—the gap in power was simply too vast to be bridged by numbers alone.
Just as everyone's attention was fixed on Zero Wing, Shi Feng raised his hand. Instantly, rows of small crossbow carts emerged from within the Zero Wing army, neatly arranged in five columns of exactly fifty carts. Then the Zero Wing members began assembling them.
"Holy crap! They're using siege weapons against the Frozen King?"
"That's insanely wasteful!"
"They've lost it—they've completely lost it!"
"Aren't they afraid the crossbow carts will be destroyed?"
The players stared at the rows of small crossbow carts and drew sharp breaths of disbelief, unable to believe their own eyes. The major guilds were left completely slack-jawed.
Deploying precious siege equipment against a field boss—that was an obscene waste of resources. Even super guilds wouldn't dare do something like that, and not for any other reason than the risk being far too great. Even if they managed to defeat the boss, the losses would almost certainly outweigh the gains.
Every single siege weapon was extraordinarily valuable, and against monsters, they were an immediate, burning threat. Bosses would target them first and foremost. If the boss destroyed them, there'd be nowhere to cry.
And here was Zero Wing, casually pulling out fifty small crossbow carts in one go…
"What on earth is Zero Wing thinking? Dipping into their guild treasury to kill a boss in one stroke? Aren't they worried about other forces seizing the opportunity to sabotage or steal them?" Zi Tong's jaw dropped as she stared at the small crossbow carts.
The Frozen King's drops might indeed be incredibly valuable—defeating it would grant entry to the City of Eternal Darkness—but the combined value of fifty small crossbow carts was likely no less significant. Losing them or having them destroyed would deal a devastating blow to the guild's overall combat power.
"Tell me—in the entire Star Moon Kingdom, which faction would actually dare to try and seize or destroy them now?" Xinghe Wangxi said with a bitter smile.
The fact that Zero Wing had brought these out in the open to fight the boss was itself a declaration that they feared no one coming to sabotage or steal them. It was a demonstration of overwhelming strength.
Everyone had witnessed Zero Wing's combat power before, especially Black Flame's. He had casually slain the guild master of Heaven's Burial in the midst of ten thousand soldiers, while the rest of the guild's members could only watch helplessly.
With that kind of power, who would dare step forward and cause trouble?
To put it bluntly, that would be suicide.
Just like the weapons and equipment scattered across the battlefield moments ago—among all the major guilds and free players, who had dared to go pick any of them up?
...
As the small crossbow carts appeared, Shi Feng also activated Demon Summoning, directly summoning a level-72 Tier 3 Flame Demon. Thanks to the Demon Lord effect, the Tier 3 Flame Demon received a 30% attribute boost, making it significantly stronger than a normal Tier 3 demon.