"Dead! The boss is finally dead!"
Everyone stared at the Infernal Great Serpent as it crashed to the ground, involuntarily letting out a collective sigh of relief.
There had been over seven hundred people at the start, but after this single battle fewer than two hundred remained. Of the thirty small crossbow carriages, only six were still intact. If the fight had dragged on any longer, they all would have been wiped out by the Infernal Great Serpent.
But in the end, victory belonged to them.
With the Infernal Great Serpent's death, everyone's experience points skyrocketed. In the blink of an eye, quite a few players leveled up on the spot, and even those who didn't still gained more than half a level's worth of EXP.
But compared to the experience points, the loot dropped by the Infernal Great Serpent was far more astonishing.
Although the serpent hadn't yet evolved into a Legendary-tier creature, it had been in the process of evolving, which meant the quality of its drops was elevated somewhat.
To top it off, Shi Feng had activated Divine Favor in the final blow. The two effects stacked together, making the Infernal Great Serpent's loot incredibly generous — over eighty items in total, every single one gleaming with golden light, piled into a small mound that instantly drew everyone's eyes. Nobody could look away.
The reason was simple: these treasures radiated a pressure that made hearts tremble, and a pillar of light shot skyward from the pile, lasting a full three to five seconds before the radiance finally faded.
Something like this had never happened before — not that anyone had ever heard of it.
"Holy crap! What kind of drops are those?! How is there such a huge phenomenon?"
"Epic-tier?"
"No way — Epic-tier items never produce anything like this. Could they be… Legendary-tier items? The kind of thing of legends?"
"Never mind Legendary — if I could get even one Epic-tier item, my strength would skyrocket. It would completely change my future development."
Everyone stared at the mound of loot, jaws dropping, hearts burning with curiosity as they chattered among themselves.
The strongest weapons and equipment known to exist among the major guilds in the Divine Realm were Epic-tier at best. But they had all seen Epic-tier items before, and Epic-tier items absolutely could not produce a spectacle like this. The only explanation they could think of was the rumored Legendary-tier items.
Once the radiance faded, every single person wanted to rush forward.
After all, even a single Epic-tier item would guarantee a comfortable life from here on out — not to mention a Legendary-tier item, which would mean never having to worry about anything for the rest of their lives.
Yet despite all this, not a single person took even half a step forward — not even the White Tiger Martial Academy students, who were technically outsiders.
First, this had been a guild operation. Every drop belonged to the guild, not to any individual. They were already being trained and leveled up by the guild; forget items, they hadn't even earned guild contribution points.
Second, defeating the Infernal Great Serpent had been entirely thanks to Shi Feng. Their contribution amounted to nothing more than filling in as temporary DPS — they hadn't made any real difference.
A handful of people from the White Tiger Martial Academy were discontent, but with the monstrously powerful Shi Feng standing right there, accompanied by several Great Lord-tier demons, they didn't have the courage to cause trouble even if they had the desire.