System: The sub-legendary treasure chest has been stored in your bag space.
System: A powerful magic seal has been placed on the sub-legendary treasure chest. It will drop upon player death and cannot be opened within the Secret Realm.
System: The Lord of Death has discovered that the treasure has been stolen and has sealed the entire Star Meteor Secret Realm. All monsters within the Star Meteor Secret Realm have been empowered.
"Talk about ruthless!"
Three consecutive system notifications left Shi Feng unsure whether to laugh or cry.
Obtaining a sub-legendary treasure chest was no easy feat. It required not only the relevant information but also sufficient strength.
He had only managed it because of his rebirth, which had granted him considerable knowledge from his previous life. Had any other player attempted this, they would have been killed long before even getting close to the sub-legendary treasure chest.
He had thought that by obtaining the sub-legendary treasure chest, things would work out—but in the end, he was still just a mouse that had wandered into a cage.
Now the entire Star Meteor Secret Realm had been sealed, meaning players had no way out. There were only two options: die to leave, or kill the Lord of the Fire Meteor.
The Lord of the Fire Meteor was essentially the ruler of the entire Star Meteor Secret Realm and the source of all its power. Once the Lord of the Fire Meteor died, the entire Secret Realm would fall into deathly silence, and the seal would naturally be lifted.
However, because of the sub-legendary treasure chest, all monsters within the Secret Realm had been strengthened—including, of course, the Lord of the Fire Meteor.
The Lord of the Fire Meteor had originally been a Fourth Rank Legendary boss. Because of the Secret Realm, its base stats were already far superior to those of ordinary Legendary monsters. Now, with this further enhancement, it was likely approaching the level of an Ancient Species at the Legendary tier.
Although players had improved considerably in both levels and equipment, dealing with a Fourth Rank Legendary monster remained extremely difficult. Even the major superpowers would typically use magic formations to suppress a Legendary monster before making various attempts to take it down.
And dealing with a Legendary monster whose strength approached that of an Ancient Species—even a Legendary-grade item fragment shield probably wouldn't be enough. To make matters worse, within the Secret Realm, all summoning items were unusable except for skills the player had personally learned. There was no way to exploit any shortcuts…
"Looks like I'll have to level up a bit first, then give it a try." Shi Feng glanced at the sub-legendary treasure chest in his bag and steadied his mind.
The value of a sub-legendary treasure chest was incomparable to that of a Legendary-grade item fragment. Given the current situation, this was clearly a critical test of whether a player truly possessed the strength to claim such a chest.
Fortunately, there was no time limit on killing the Lord of the Fire Meteor. Ke Le and the others would see their attributes increase substantially as they leveled up.
Although they had a ten-day agreement with the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, relocating Stone Forest Town to the Bottomless Abyss was not difficult and wouldn't require much time. It only necessitated sufficient status and six thousand Magic Crystal Stones—a procedure no one currently knew how to carry out.
The real difficulty lay in those six thousand Magic Crystal Stones.
For the major powers, six thousand Magic Crystal Stones was an astronomical figure. Even converting them to three hundred thousand Magic Crystals via the Philosopher's Stone, it was still an impossible feat for current first-rate guilds. Even for superpowers, producing that amount would be extremely challenging.
However, for Zero Wing, acquiring three hundred thousand Magic Crystals wasn't actually that difficult. After all, beyond the mineral veins in the Sea of Death, Zero Wing also controlled the Source Fire mineral vein in the Flame Demon Valley. Although very few people could access it for mining, the daily output of Magic Crystals was still substantial. Combined, even ordinary superpowers couldn't compare to Zero Wing.
After accounting for daily expenditures and factoring in their existing reserves and ten days' time, three hundred thousand Magic Crystals was no problem at all.
When the group saw that Shi Feng had obtained the sub-legendary treasure chest, the tension they had been holding finally eased—especially Huo Wu and Bai Qingxue, who were present. They knew all too well the power of Legendary-grade item fragments. If they could open one, it would create another top-tier expert for the guild, which was exactly what the guild needed most right now.
"Guild Leader, this is bad! A massive number of monsters have suddenly appeared from all directions—several thousand in total. Most are Grand Lords above level 72, and there are quite a few High Grand Lords mixed in among them. They're converging on our position right now!" At that moment, Beifeng Diaodi, who had been scouting the surroundings, hurriedly shouted.
"So soon?" Shi Feng looked at the map Beifeng Diaodi had displayed. The map was covered in a dense swarm of red dots.