Even for their Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, producing a single Subtlety-realm expert was no easy feat. It required a rigorous selection process followed by extensive training and tempering — far beyond what those players in the Divine Realm who casually called themselves experts could ever compare to.
True, the unique nature of the Divine Realm made it slightly easier for players to reach Subtlety, but such experts were still pitifully rare, and every last one of them enjoyed considerable fame within the game.
"That's not a mistake. Every single one of them is a member of Zero Wing's Black God Legion." Zi Qiong shook her head. "I looked into their earlier records — their skill levels were nothing special, but somehow, every single one of them is now shockingly powerful." She wished she could disbelieve it too, but the facts were right in front of her. She had no choice but to admit that Zero Wing truly had over a hundred Subtlety-realm experts at its disposal.
"So Zero Wing has been hiding its light under a bushel all this time — keeping itself concealed this deeply?" Yuan Tiexin thought back to how calmly
Being able to cultivate a hundred Subtlety-realm experts at once — even a super guild would struggle to pull that off. Yet this kind of superpower existed right under their noses, and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, with all its intelligence networks, had never heard a whisper of it. Just the thought of it sent a chill down Yuan Tiexin's spine.
He had long known that the waters of the Divine Realm ran deep, but he never imagined they ran this deep. The guilds that had popped up previously were one thing, but now this Zero Wing — it was like an unfathomable abyss.
At the same time, it wasn't just the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion that had gotten word. Numerous superpowers had caught wind of Zero Wing, and every last one of them was forced to reassess the guild.
Although Zero Wing's total membership was still small and fell short of many first-rate guilds in many respects, possessing a hundred Subtlety-realm experts meant that in terms of top-tier combat power alone, they had already far surpassed the competition. There was a very real possibility they would become a super-first-rate guild — a dominant power in the Divine Realm.
Meanwhile, at the Star River Alliance's headquarters in Star Moon Royal City.
In the spacious guild master's office, Xinghe Wangxi stared at the data the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had just sent over, momentarily frozen in shock.
"Guild Master, is something wrong?" Zi Tong asked, noticing his unusual expression.
"Zero Wing really is a bottomless abyss. If the Heavenly Burial Guild hadn't deployed such massive forces this time, I'm afraid every major guild in the Star Moon Kingdom would still be kept in the dark." Xinghe Wangxi handed the data to Zi Tong and let out a bitter laugh. "A hundred Subtlety-realm experts! Zero Wing must have been laughing at us first-rate guilds behind our backs this whole time."
"A hundred… a hundred Subtlety-realm experts?" Zi Tong's jaw dropped as she looked at the data.
She was no longer the ignorant girl she once had been. She knew all too well how powerful Subtlety-realm experts were. She had always considered herself quite talented, but even with the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's help, she was still some distance from reaching that threshold.
And Zero Wing possessed a hundred of them. The sheer scale of it was beyond her ability to imagine.
And here they were — the Star River Alliance had once joined forces with other guilds to go up against Zero Wing. If Zero Wing had actually gotten serious back then, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Only now did she begin to understand why Bai Qingxue had chosen to join a rising guild like Zero Wing.
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"A hundred Subtlety-realm experts… just how many secrets does Zero Wing have?" Feng Qianyu stared at the intelligence report, at a loss for words.
It had already been incredible when Shi Feng had brought Zero Wing's experts to help her seize partial control of Thunder Island. And now they were talking about a hundred Subtlety-realm experts on top of that…
While a hundred Subtlety-realm experts still fell far short of the numbers within the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion, they posed a considerable threat to both her and the Nine Dragon Emperor.
If the Nine Dragon Emperor knew that the Zero Wing he had once tried to crush possessed such reserves, he probably wouldn't have dared—
"What! Heavenly Burial has actually withdrawn? What happened?" Bai Qingxue's heart was filled with curiosity upon hearing
If Shi Feng hadn't told her that the Star Moon Kingdom situation didn't require their involvement, she would have rushed over with her people long ago.
After all, the experts Heavenly Burial and Black Water had sent numbered over eight thousand, with some Subtlety-realm experts among them. Without mobilizing Zero Wing's full strength, holding out would have been extremely difficult.
But how much time had actually passed? Heavenly Burial had publicly announced a retreat.
"Apparently our guild's Black God squads, deployed across the map, made the difference. They went after the hundred-man elite teams from Heavenly Burial and Black Water ruthlessly — wiping out nearly a thousand guild experts in under half an hour, and our Black God squads didn't suffer a single casualty." Zhao Yueru explained excitedly. "They even took out several of Heavenly Burial and Black Water's Subtlety-realm experts."
"A six-man Black God squad wiped out an entire hundred-man elite team from Heavenly Burial?" Bai Qingxue was momentarily stunned.
She knew exactly how strong the Black God Legion's members were. At best, they were half-step Subtlety. Forming an elite squad, even with the advantage of burst skills, they'd be lucky to take out a twenty-man team from Heavenly Burial and Black Water. After all, those opponents weren't rookies — they were seasoned experts who had fought their way up through the Divine Realm.
Yet they had wiped out entire hundred-man teams, and not just one squad. It sounded like something out of a fairy tale.
Fighting against hundred-man elite teams from Heavenly Burial and Black Water, you would need experts with the strength and skill of second-class jobs like Shi Feng and Huo Wu — it would otherwise be impossible. Unless every member of the squad was exceptionally powerful. But the Black God members' combat skill wasn't that much superior to the Heavenly Burial and Black Water experts.
"That's right. Everyone in the guild is talking about it. Those Black God squads are genuinely terrifying. If I hadn't already switched to a second-class job, I probably would've been taken out by them working together." Zhao Yueru nodded. "I never imagined our Zero Wing had been hiding this kind of strength all along. Now the other first-rate guilds in the Black Dragon Empire will really have to think twice before going after us."
Previously, Zero Wing had lacked experts who could command respect and deterrence, so the other guilds had felt safe pushing them around — especially since the first-rate guilds in the Black Dragon Empire had the covert backing of the Nine Dragon Emperor, giving them even more confidence. Now, with the Black God squads making their debut, the other first-rate guilds would have some serious thinking to do.
Just as Zero Wing's members were still burning with excitement over repelling the Heavenly Burial army, Shui Se Qiangwei relayed this astonishing news to Shi Feng, who had long since left the Star Moon Kingdom.
"Guild Master, what kind of magic did you work on them? How did they all get so strong all of a sudden? Every single one of them feels like they can go toe-to-toe with a Subtlety-realm expert of the same level." Shui Se Qiangwei couldn't help but ask, curiosity getting the better of her.
She knew full well how strong the Black God members she had dispatched actually were. In less than a few hours, every single one of them had undergone a massive boost in combat power. If someone told her this had nothing to do with Shi Feng, she wouldn't believe it for a second.