Across the vast scorched-earth plain, the major superpowers methodically hunted bosses to obtain teleportation stones, while the first-rate guilds and top-tier adventurer teams confined to the safe zone could only watch helplessly from the sidelines.
Among them, there were certainly plenty of experts capable of dodging the falling lightning. But experts who could simultaneously dodge lightning strikes and fight a High Lord-ranked boss? Those were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
A Level 55 High Lord was already extraordinarily difficult to deal with. Even under normal raid conditions, casualties would be substantial. Now, they couldn't even muster enough people for a proper attempt. The gap between them and the superpowers was plain for all to see.
The members of the various first-rate guilds and top-tier adventurer teams banded together and tried multiple times, but achieved nothing of note.
Although they finally had enough experts to mount a proper attempt, the thunder elementals and thunder beasts—both High Lord-ranked—leveraged their home turf advantage, and every thunder-based skill they used received a significant power boost, with damage increases of over thirty percent.
Cloth-wearing classes with low defense and thin health pools faced instant death if they failed to dodge a thunder elemental's or thunder beast's skill attack. There was no room for even the slightest margin of error.
And when facing falling lightning, trying to avoid making a single mistake was simply too difficult.
In the end, their numbers steadily dwindled until the boss wiped the entire raid.
Just as the first-rate guilds and top-tier adventurer teams were resting, Shi Feng led Zero Wing's members straight into the lightning zone, as if they hadn't just witnessed the carnage those groups had suffered moments ago.
"They're all going in together? Have the Zero Wing people lost their minds?"
"What are they trying to do?"
"Even if dying inside the Ancient Divine Relics only costs you twenty percent of your experience, that's no reason to be this careless!"
Everyone stared at Zero Wing's actions, convinced the guild had gone completely insane.
On this Thunder Plains, a player's basic stats mattered far less—individual skill was what counted first and foremost. Unlike the Ancient Divine Relic's second floor, where skilled members could help others along, here on the third floor there was absolutely no room to lend assistance. Each player had to rely entirely on themselves.
Even if a thousand players charged into the Thunder Plains simultaneously, it wouldn't reduce the number of lightning strikes each person had to endure. Quite the opposite—it became more dangerous. With so many players packed together, the distance between them shrank, making it far harder to dodge falling lightning. One careless step and you could even be hit by lightning meant for someone else.
At this point, not only were the various powers baffled by Zero Wing's reckless behavior—even Zero Wing's own members were on edge. Especially those who had watched the experts from the first-rate guilds and top-tier adventurer teams get obliterated by falling lightning, they knew all too well that their own skill levels were no better than those experts. Facing the lightning rain from above, their fate would be exactly the same.
As Zero Wing's members ventured further from the safe zone and neared the lightning zone, every last one of them felt their hearts climb into their throats, tension mounting unbearably.
"Are they seriously all coming?" Huang Hai, who was already fighting within the lightning zone, glanced at Zero Wing's forces appearing on the horizon and blurted out in surprise. "Are they looking to die?"
Over a thousand players entering the lightning zone all at once—the number of lightning strikes such a crowd would trigger would be absolutely staggering. Even a superpower like his wouldn't dare pull a stunt like that.
"Could Zero Wing be testing how many of their people can actually fight inside the lightning zone?" Qilian, the team's healer, was equally stunned.
While the major superpowers were entertaining these thoughts, Zero Wing's members began stepping into the lightning zone one by one.
Over a thousand players crossing into the lightning zone was an impossible sight to miss. Everyone watched with intense curiosity, wondering how they would possibly handle the onslaught of innumerable lightning strikes.
Three seconds passed…
Five seconds passed…
Ten seconds passed…
The countless bolts of thunder that everyone had imagined never fell. Instead, Zero Wing's members were alive and kicking, brimming with energy, and dispatching the Leader-ranked thunder elementals and thunder beasts that charged at them with almost casual ease.
"Where's the falling lightning?"