With Duan Liushui's death, the Heavenly Burial members froze on the spot, staring in disbelief at his collapsed body. It felt absolutely impossible.
Panic rippled through their ranks as no one knew what to do.
But Tong Hu and his team gave them no time to recover, charging straight into the crowd.
A distance of over thirty yards was crossed in the blink of an eye.
The Shield Warrior and Guardian Knight smashed through the front-line melee fighters, while Tong Hu and the other two Berserkers reached the center of the crowd and immediately unleashed Whirlwind Slash and Thunder Strike.
Three storms erupted skyward in an instant. Every nearby member of the Heavenly Burial Guild was sent flying, and a massive chunk of their health vanished in a heartbeat. Tong Hu and the others then rushed to the nearest Heavenly Burial players and quickly finished them off.
In the blink of an eye, several Heavenly Burial players were eliminated.
"They're trying to break through! Take them down!"
Some Heavenly Burial members finally reacted and swarmed forward. Players with burst skills activated them immediately, while healers and ranged DPS in the back began casting spells and opening fire.
Yet Tong Hu and his team seemed completely unconcerned about the healers and ranged attackers, continuing to slaughter players without burst skills. The absolute suppression in base stats meant that even players of equal skill couldn't hold their ground—let alone when their stats were being completely outclassed. Even half-health MTs fell in just two or three hits.
By the time the backline healers finally managed to cast recovery skills, over ten members of Heavenly Burial had already fallen—most of them MTs. Meanwhile, despite being swarmed by numerous Heavenly Burial melee fighters, not a single one of Zero Wing's five members had taken the slightest damage. The attackers were sent flying with every counterblow.
As ranged attacks flew in, Tong Hu and his team dodged them as if they had already mapped every trajectory, and even used quite a few Heavenly Burial members as human shields.
Though the Heavenly Burial healers desperately tried to keep everyone topped up, facing Tong Hu's team's absurdly high attack power, blocking was one thing—but the moment a hit got through, damage numbers exceeding ten thousand points popped up like it was nothing. In such a fast-paced battle, the healers simply couldn't keep up, and players hit the ground in moments.
The Heavenly Burial side tried to take out Zero Wing's healer, but the two MTs stood guard right beside them. Over a dozen players charged in but couldn't get within arm's reach of the healer. All they could do was watch as Zero Wing's healer continuously kept the three Berserkers topped off, while Tong Hu's trio carved through the Heavenly Burial ranks like a meat grinder.
As time passed, the Heavenly Burial hundred-man raid grew smaller and smaller. The guild's many experts had become complete jokes in front of Tong Hu's five-man team.
"Who the hell are they?"
"When did Zero Wing get experts like these?"
The more the Heavenly Burial members fought, the more alarmed they became. The gap in strength between the two sides was now painfully obvious.
No matter how they attacked, Tong Hu's five could dodge or block everything. In contrast, they themselves were constantly struck in vital spots, their health plummeting—and when Tong Hu's team coordinated their strikes, players were simply one-shot…
Meanwhile, Tong Hu and his team fought with increasing ease, growing more and more familiar with how to use the battle formation.
They were simply too strong!
Once War Mode was activated, all they had to do was maintain their positions and they were covered from every angle—360 degrees with no blind spots. Their constitutions had been boosted as well, making it far easier to track enemy attacks. To them, Heavenly Burial's attacks felt as feeble as a child's, all of them clearly visible.
Only now did they truly understand how powerful those top-tier experts were. Before, they had never known where—or how vast—the gap between themselves and those experts truly was. Now, they understood completely.
So clearly that it was almost terrifying.
This level of awareness and perception over their surroundings was simply overwhelming. At just their current level, they were already this strong. When they thought about the experts who could fully perceive and control everything around them, all they felt was awe and reverence.
No wonder Shi Feng had said that if they died, it would be on him.
With this kind of perception and control over their surroundings, unless they faced experts with a massive advantage in both power and technique, dying would actually be a little difficult.