Watching the High Devil Baphomet die completely, Shi Feng let out a deep sigh of relief.
Baphomet's death, even though the experience points gained in the Dark World were extremely scarce, shot his experience bar up by 7%, bringing him to level 65 at 62%. If not for the world suppression, he could have potentially rushed straight to level 66.
With the death of the High Devil Baphomet, a rain of drops began falling from the sky, dazzling to behold. If any of the superpowers found out, they would surely die of envy.
Monsters killed in the Dark World already dropped decent loot, and this was the map's guardian boss with a first kill — the drops were beyond imagination. A quick glance revealed over a hundred items…
As the rain of drops descended, a crystal radiating a golden halo fell before Shi Feng. He immediately clicked to inspect it.
Soul of the High Devil — Epic-grade consumable. By sacrificing Magic Crystals, a new body can be reconstituted, allowing the High Devil Baphomet to inhabit it. Consuming 2,000 Magic Crystals constructs a Tier 3 body 10 levels above the player's level. Consuming 5,000 Magic Crystals constructs a Tier 4 body 15 levels above the player's level. Can be used three times. Cooldown: 5 minutes. (Current uses: 0) "What a powerful Epic-grade consumable!" Shi Feng exclaimed, stunned by the displayed data.
Epic-grade consumables were exceedingly rare — each one was incredibly powerful, just like the Demon King's Horn that had smashed straight through a city's defensive magic array.
The Soul of the High Devil before him was no less impressive.
Tier 3 magic summoning scrolls were already exceedingly rare, and even among superpowers there were very few. Each was treated as a family heirloom, never used lightly. Yet the Soul of the High Devil could summon a Tier 4 High Devil — an existence that was virtually invincible for current players. What's more, it could be used three times. Unlike summoning a Sacred Beast through a magic array, which could be ended the moment the caster maintaining the array was disrupted, this was an utterly supreme war tool.
Shi Feng stored the Soul of the High Devil and began picking up and sorting through the drops scattered on the ground.
Baphomet had dropped a total of 154 items: 45 Epic-grade materials, 31 magic scrolls — including six Tier 3 magic scrolls, two Large-Scale Destruction magic scrolls, one summoning scroll, two defensive scrolls, and one single-target attack scroll. Among all the magic scrolls, there was also one Tier 4 Large-Scale Destruction magic scroll.
There were 34 Master-grade potions of various kinds, including one Grandmaster-grade Growth Potion. The Growth Potion was truly priceless — after drinking it, the user's potential would be compressed, forcibly advancing them by one full tier in a short period.
For Tier 1 players, this might not be especially useful, but for Tier 2 and above, the significance was entirely different. It was far more terrifying than burst skills — burst skills only boosted a player's basic attributes, but the Growth Potion advanced the player by a whole tier. That meant not just basic attributes, but the player's physique itself would rise to the corresponding tier.
Just like the bosses in dungeons — a Tier 2 MT struggled greatly against them, but once reaching Tier 3, dealing with them became effortless.
Of the remaining 44 items, there were ten design blueprints and recipes, all rare formulas. Among them were two Master-grade blueprints. One was the recipe for the Master-grade Life Potion.
After drinking the Life Potion, it could instantly restore 70% of a player's HP, followed by restoring 2% HP per second for 10 seconds. It could also directly cure the heavy injury state and restore 10% of the player's stamina and mental energy. Cooldown: 5 minutes.
This was far superior to the high-grade recovery potions on the market in every way. Setting aside the HP restoration, the ability to cure heavy injury and restore stamina and mental energy alone completely outclassed all other recovery potions. During intense battles, players consumed stamina and mental energy at a frightening rate — some bosses even had skills that accelerated the drain.
Although the Life Potion only restored 10% of stamina and mental energy, in critical moments it was enough to save a life or take down a boss. In the previous life, Life Potions were snatched up the moment they hit the market, each bottle selling for as much as 5 gold.
However, the Life Potion recipe was extremely rare — even the large and powerful superpowers didn't have many in their possession. At auction, a single recipe fetched the astronomical price of 8,000 gold.
The other Master-grade blueprint Baphomet had dropped was the engineering blueprint for a Glider. Once crafted, it allowed players to glide, preventing them from falling to their deaths. Moreover, the gliding speed was very fast — a Master-grade Glider achieved an aerial speed of 350%, surpassing any mount. And with no obstacles in midair, the glide followed a perfectly straight path.
It had three drawbacks. First, one needed to reach a sufficiently high point before using it. Second, it was affected by the environment — using it in strong winds could have dire consequences, potentially blowing the user to their death. Third, the Glider was a consumable item that couldn't be repaired; once used up, it was gone. Even ordinary Gliders sold for over 18 gold, not much cheaper than a permanent basic mount.
But these three drawbacks were nothing to players who valued time and speed.
In the previous life, many expert players used Gliders whenever they could to cut down travel time, never caring about the cost.
Shi Feng's eyes lit up at the sight of the Glider blueprint.
In an era where mounts hadn't yet become widespread, putting Gliders on the market would absolutely guarantee more demand than supply. After all, most guilds had only just begun to leave the kingdoms and empires to venture into neutral maps for leveling.
Without a town-building token or a mobile town to transport them to neutral maps, players could only run there on foot. Neutral maps were vast — even with mounts, it took considerable time. But with a Glider, one could save a tremendous amount of time.
If he put Gliders on the market now as the sole supplier, they would be enormously popular, earning massive profits and greatly accelerating Zero Wing City's advancement.
Among the ten blueprints Baphomet had dropped, besides the Master-grade Glider blueprint, there was also an advanced Glider blueprint capable of producing ordinary Gliders. Their speed was somewhat lower than the Master-grade version, but still reached 300%.
"Looks like I should find an opportunity to farm more Glider blueprints," Shi Feng mused.
Master-grade Glider blueprints were extremely precious — truly ultra-rare. But advanced Glider blueprints weren't nearly as scarce, since field bosses above level 70 had a certain chance of dropping them, though they had to be High Great Lord rank or above. On certain maps, the field bosses notably increased the drop rate. In the previous life, the major guilds had farmed those field bosses relentlessly to obtain more blueprints.
Zero Wing's main force was no longer weak, and with the Dark Bible in hand, he could absolutely go farming for them.
Stowing the Master-grade Glider blueprint, Shi Feng turned his attention to a torn fragment in his bag. The text on it had long since faded into illegibility, yet the fragment emitted a faint divine aura, and the moment it was removed from the bag, the surrounding dark power involuntarily swirled toward it.
Shi Feng's heart surged with indescribable excitement at the sight.
This fragment was none other than a page from the Dark Bible — the very reason the Dark Bible had never been truly fully repaired. Although the core had long since been restored, the pages within remained incomplete.
This torn fragment was one of them.
System: Player has discovered a fragment of the Dark Bible. Spend 500 Magic Crystals to merge the fragment into the Dark Bible, allowing it to be repaired?
"Repair!" Shi Feng clicked to repair the Dark Bible without a second thought.