Hundreds of thousands of players clashed together, the deafening roar of battle and magical explosions echoing throughout the entire high tower, as if the whole structure had been transformed into an ancient battlefield.
Many members of adventure teams visiting for the first time were awestruck by this magnificent spectacle, finding it difficult even to move.
"Incredible! So this is what the fight over ancient divine relics looks like?"
"This is insane! Even expert players are nothing but slightly bigger ants here!"
Many adventure teams and ordinary guilds that had originally wanted to join in now stood frozen at the sidelines, not daring to approach the battlefield, terrified of being dragged into its maelstrom.
Because the expert players who were normally so formidable couldn't survive more than ten seconds on this battlefield — either struck by magic and arrows flying in from every direction, or swarmed by groups of enemies. Just staying alive was an achievement. As for elite players, they were like cannon fodder — they hadn't made it more than a few steps before some stray attack finished them off, and the healers in the back line didn't even have time to react before they were gone…
Within this battle, the teleportation zone was the most intense.
And Zero Wing's thirty-person Arcane Light team was like a pack of unleashed beasts.
Whether facing Heavenly Burial's melee players or incoming ranged attacks, nothing could stop the iron wall formed by the fifteen tanks.
Not only were the melee players' attacks completely blocked by shields, but they were also sent flying and knocked off balance, only to be obliterated by Zero Wing's ranged attackers from behind, dissolving into scattered motes of starlight.
However, the Heavenly Burial Guild had the numbers advantage, and attacks came from all directions. Even tanks wearing the Arcane Light set couldn't block everything — they were bound to be hit by some arrows and spells.
But the damage numbers showing up on Zero Wing's tanks nearly drove the Heavenly Burial members to despair.
-3057! -2371! ...
Damage numbers popped up one after another on Zero Wing's tanks, but among all the direct hits, not a single one exceeded four thousand.
This was simply unbelievable to everyone present.
Everyone present was a guild expert with top-tier weapons and equipment. Even against a top-tier tank of the same level, any hit to the body would deal at least five thousand damage, and powerful spells could deal over ten thousand. Yet a level-50 Ranger using the first-tier skill Heart-Piercing Arrow on a tank in the Arcane Light set dealt only around thirty-seven hundred damage — and other magical attacks fared even worse.
For tanks who already had over fifty-four thousand HP, this amount of damage was barely noteworthy — roughly the same as what a Grand Lord-level boss would deal when blocked by a shield. Not to mention that all of Zero Wing's members had the benefit of buff magic, plus the Power of Destruction that Shi Feng had activated.
These two factors combined pushed the tanks' HP to over seventy thousand. Even taking ten hits simultaneously, it was nearly impossible to drop them below half health. And with just a few heals from Zero Wing's back-line priests, they were instantly back to full — they simply couldn't be killed.
On the other hand, Zero Wing's attacks were devastating. You Ziping, charging at the very front, dealt over three thousand damage with a single normal strike on Heavenly Burial's tanks, and a single Cross Slash dealt over ten thousand. Against tanks with barely fifty thousand HP, one combo could take away most of their health. Combined with ranged attacks from the back line, Heavenly Burial's healers didn't even have time to apply heals before the targets were eliminated.
The two sides had clashed for only a brief moment, yet several hundred members of the Heavenly Burial Guild had already been killed — and every one of them was an expert player…
"Damn it! How can the gap in base stats be this huge?" Lei Jingyang stared in disbelief as the Arcane Light team charged recklessly, drawing ever closer to Heavenly Burial's mages and healers.
He couldn't understand at all how You Ziping and the others, wearing the Arcane Light set, could have such high base stats.
Heavenly Burial's expert members were all decked out in top-tier equipment. Even if there was a gap compared to level-50 Gold-grade sets, it shouldn't be this enormous — it was as if Zero Wing's people were all running some kind of burst skill, like they were fighting on a completely different level.
But Lei Jingyang knew full well — this wasn't any kind of burst skill.