Before the mysterious palace, with the members of the Death God Workshop annihilated, the members of the two major guilds present — Qin Yin and Kuang Fa of Chaotic World — wore varying expressions.
"Sister Qin Yin, this Huo Wu is incredible! She actually defeated the Death God Workshop's two commanders single-handedly. If the Death God Workshop hears about this, they'll definitely tone down their operations from now on." The half-cat girl Fei Xin watched Huo Wu sorting through the dropped loot, her heart unable to contain its excitement.
The major guilds of the Fairy Kingdom had been helpless against the Death God Workshop largely because the Workshop had too many powerful experts. Send too few people and they'd easily be wiped out; send too many and the siege would fail — after all, the larger the numbers, the bigger the commotion, and the Death God Workshop wasn't foolish enough to stand and fight.
The fact that the Eastern Wu Dynasty had managed to deploy a five-hundred-man elite squad to corner the Death God Workshop was already remarkable. If they had sent several thousand, the Workshop would have received word and vanished long before, giving the Dynasty no chance at all.
Only the superpowers — with their vast numbers of experts and large reserves of top-tier players — could afford to spend enormous manpower and resources to keep the Death God Workshop quiet. But even these superpowers had sprawling territories and countless tasks for their top players, making it impossible to dedicate them to a drawn-out fight with the Workshop. That was why the superpowers had all turned a blind eye.
But now Zero Wing was different. Not only did they have an expert who could match the Workshop's two commanders in strength, they also excelled at tracking. Even without expending massive manpower and resources, they could deal with the Death God Workshop.
"Exactly! After this battle, the Death God Workshop should lay low for a while." Qin Yin nodded, never having expected Zero Wing to possess such terrifying strength — far exceeding her expectations. "Spread the word immediately. Tell everyone that our Ninth Heaven has reached an agreement with Zero Wing, and they'll help us deal with the Death God Workshop!"
Her original hope had been that Zero Wing could cause the Death God Workshop some inconveniences, eventually reaching a stalemate. That way, the Ninth Heaven could develop somewhat, no longer dreading every trip to the wilderness, and keep the guild from crumbling bit by bit.
But now things were different. Zero Wing could not only hold their own against the Death God Workshop — they could actually annihilate it. The difference between those two outcomes was night and day.
As long as the Death God Workshop learned that the Ninth Heaven had a pact with Zero Wing, the Workshop's fear of Zero Wing's power would naturally keep them from causing any more trouble.
"I'll go spread the word right away."
Upon hearing Qin Yin's words, Fei Xin immediately understood her intent. She was also curious to see what kind of impact the news of the Death God Workshop's defeat would have on the Fairy Kingdom.
After all, the Death God Workshop had been a plague upon the entire Fairy Kingdom, a name that made every major power shudder.
Fei Xin began compiling the information, preparing to broadcast the news of the Workshop's crushing defeat across the Fairy Kingdom. Meanwhile, not far away, Kuang Fa of Chaotic World stared in disbelief at Huo Wu and her companions.
"Just who are these people? How come I've never even heard the name Zero Wing before?" Kuang Fa's heart was shaken in a way he couldn't put into words.
The axe-wielding Zhan Fu had been like a monster, and Bing Yu's combat strength was no less impressive — yet even the two of them together hadn't been a match for Huo Wu. If someone had told him that, he would have assumed they were joking. But now he'd seen it with his own eyes, and disbelief was not an option.
That final blow in particular — everyone had watched Huo Wu die, yet she had inexplicably appeared behind Zhan Fu. This bizarre occurrence was absolutely the strangest thing he'd encountered since entering the Divine Realm.
The members of Zero Wing, however, were not surprised. Although Huo Wu had never publicly revealed the details of her Thousand Changes ability, everyone who leveled with her knew she had a skill that essentially granted her an extra life — though its cooldown was a full forty-eight hours. In other words, Huo Wu had two lives within any forty-eight-hour window. Because of this, outside of Dungeons, Huo Wu had never truly died even once...
Within Zero Wing, they all called Huo Wu the Fire Phoenix, and everyone envied her for it.
"Vice Guild Master, we just found some information on Zero Wing. It's a rising guild established within the Divine Realm. They don't have any major backing, but their current strength is no less than a first-rate guild," a member of the Eastern Wu Dynasty quickly reported from the side.
"No less than a first-rate guild?" Kuang Fa was rendered speechless. He felt the intelligence had to be wildly inaccurate.
After all, every first-rate guild in the Fairy Kingdom had been utterly helpless against the Death God Workshop. And now they were saying Zero Wing was "no less than" a first-rate guild?