As the Domain of Collapse fully unfurled, its power was so immense that the entire space seemed on the verge of crumbling. Even the terrifying demonic energy gathering in the Infernal Great Serpent's maw began to disintegrate, becoming nearly impossible to condense.
The Infernal Great Serpent's base attributes also started to plummet.
"So powerful!" Shi Feng stared at the formed Domain of Collapse and couldn't help but marvel inwardly.
The Demon Lord's effect alone had already weakened the Infernal Great Serpent, a demonic creature, by 30%. The Domain of Collapse couldn't reduce it by quite as much, but it still forcefully cut the serpent's current base attributes in half. Its HP had dropped from 160 million to 80 million. This effect far surpassed that of a World Projection, which required five thousand Magic Crystals to deploy.
Moreover, compared to the reduction in base attributes, the special effects demonstrated by the Domain of Collapse were even more astonishing.
In the Divine Realm, suppressing mana was easy enough, but thinning out the ambient mana was extremely difficult — to say nothing of causing the mana in an entire space to disintegrate and vanish entirely. This was something that had never happened before.
Mana Suppression worked by freezing magical elements in place, which was highly effective against low-tier monsters and players. However, as tiers increased, powerful monsters and players could forcibly shatter the frozen magical elements. So skills like Mana Suppression were practically god-tier in the early game, but their effectiveness diminished the further one progressed.
In comparison, lowering mana density held little advantage in the early stages — it merely weakened players' magical skills at most, and at best disrupted mental focus and weakened perception across the board. But in the late game, against powerful monsters and high-tier players, the effect only grew stronger, because this kind of influence never diminished.
The strongest variant was making mana disappear entirely: not only could no magical skills be used, but all forms of perception were reduced to their absolute minimum. Even if one possessed powerful treasures capable of maintaining personal mana reserves, the effect would still be drastically diminished.
The Domain of Collapse belonged to this last category. Of course, it was only approaching that level — it wasn't strong enough to make mana vanish completely. It merely thinned the mana out, making it difficult and unstable to condense magical elements. Even so, this was remarkable. At the very least, when fighting high-tier monsters and high-tier players, its effectiveness far surpassed that of Mana Suppression-type skills.
"What exactly did the Guild Master do? Why have the Infernal Great Serpent's attributes dropped so much?"
Everyone watched the Infernal Great Serpent, whose presence and attributes had been drastically reduced, and felt a shock they couldn't put into words.
They all understood that the more powerful a monster was, the harder it was to weaken its attributes. Even a mid-tier magic circle performed decently against a Great Lord or High Great Lord, but against a Primordial Species like this, a 20% reduction would already be considered extraordinary. Now the Infernal Great Serpent's attributes had been slashed in half — and without any magic circle at all. It was utterly unheard of.
Just then, the Infernal Great Serpent spat out volley after volley of massive deep-green fireballs at Shi Feng. Each fireball was the size of a small hill, and their speed was terrifying — far too fast to dodge.
"Guild Master!" Everyone watched as Shi Feng was completely engulfed by the enormous fireballs, worry flooding their voices.
Though the Infernal Great Serpent's attributes had been greatly reduced, it was still a Primordial Species. Even weakened, its damage output was still beyond what they could hope to withstand.
"What incredible speed!" Shi Feng watched the suddenly incoming fireballs and instinctively activated both the Heavenly Dragon's Power and the Void Shield.
In the next instant, he met them head-on with his sword.
Boom boom boom…
A relentless barrage of fireball magic hammered down. Flames erupted in every direction, the ground trembled, and the force was so devastating that it blasted several deep craters into the earth — as if meteorites had just struck. As the deep-green flames dissipated, the Infernal Great Serpent revealed a faintly human-like smirk of satisfaction, while every member of Zero Wing wore a grim expression.
The sheer destructive force was comparable to a large-scale annihilation spell…
And Shi Feng was merely a Swordsman — not a tank. Surviving an attack like that should have been virtually impossible.
"Hold on — look at the Guild Master's HP in the party status bar!" Just as everyone assumed Shi Feng had been killed by the Infernal Great Serpent, a quick-witted player suddenly pointed at the party status panel.
"No way — the Guild Master's health hasn't dropped at all? How is that possible?"
Everyone quickly noticed Shi Feng's health status in the party bar. His HP bar was still at 100%, with not a single point missing.
Immediately after, they saw a figure standing motionlessly amid the clearing smoke.
It was Shi Feng. Not only was he uninjured, but even the protective shield layer formed around his body didn't have so much as a single crack.
"Impressive. Even with its attributes suppressed this much, a Primordial Species can still unleash magic this powerful."
Shi Feng glanced at the Void Shield formed over his body. It appeared undamaged, but it had lost nearly a quarter of its integrity.
He had activated the Heavenly Dragon's Power, raising his max HP by 500%, and the Void Shield could form a barrier equal to ten times his max HP. That meant the Void Shield could absorb over four million points of damage — yet just now it had lost a full quarter, roughly one million points.
If he hadn't used the Void Shield, he would have been blasted to dust. And this was the damage after the serpent's attributes had been suppressed. If they hadn't been suppressed, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
However, during the time the Infernal Great Serpent had focused its attack on Shi Feng, the Demon Warlord and the other demons had made their way to the serpent's opposite side. Unaffected by the Domain of Collapse's suppression, they launched their attacks without hesitation.
Without a word, each of them unleashed a Tier 3 skill.
The combined Tier 3 skill attacks from five Great Lords forced a scream from the Infernal Great Serpent. Damage numbers of six hundred to seven hundred thousand points popped up one after another, instantly stripping away over three million points of the serpent's HP.
"Such high defense!" Shi Feng watched the five Great Lords' attacks land and couldn't help but furrow his brow.