The violent power of lightning crackled across the barren ground, the entire surface cratered as though struck by a meteorite.
A crater over two hundred yards in radius sprawled before everyone's eyes. Scattered across its depths were the weapons and equipment dropped by players — over a thousand pieces in total, each one no lower than Gold-grade quality at level sixty-five. Such an enormous haul of top-tier gear would make even a superpower's eyes go green with envy.
Yet the only thing the crowd felt upon witnessing this scene was sheer terror and disbelief.
Over a thousand elite players — and not ordinary elites, at that. A considerable portion of them were at the Grandmaster level, the kind of top-tier combatants that even a first-rate guild could count on one hand. And now they had been wiped out in an instant, without so much as the ability to put up a fight…
"How is this possible?!"
Standing atop the city wall, Yuan Tiexin stared at the devastation, his mind reeling with incredulity.
Star Ring had possessed an Epic-grade defensive treasure orb — a defensive artifact even more precious than Zero Wing's mobile defensive magic array. Its maximum tolerance could reach Tier Four; with it activated, one could withstand even the bombardment of a Magic Tower.
That was precisely why Chen Hui had boldly appeared less than a thousand yards from Stone Forest City.
The only drawback was that replenishing its mana was incredibly cumbersome — each use required a long cooldown before magic crystals could restore it.
Even so, Star Ring had used this defensive orb to crush the War Soul guild, preventing them from seizing the Undead Kingdom's fortress and inflicting heavy casualties in the process.
And yet this defensive treasure, which Star Ring had treated as an inviolable trump card, had been shattered in an instant — unable to even offer a moment's resistance. In the blink of an eye it was destroyed, over a thousand Star Ring elites were annihilated, and three Legendary-grade monsters were gravely wounded…
"How much power has this Black Flame been hiding?!" From a distance, Sheng Wuji stood slack-jawed, unable to tear his gaze away from Shi Feng standing on the city wall in the magic mirror.
The strength Shi Feng had displayed when he slaughtered the Demon Slayer squad had already been terrifying, but compared to this, it was like comparing a candle to the blazing sun.
If Shi Feng had used this move back then, not a single person from the Dragon Horn guild or the Demon Slayer squad would have survived — they would have been reduced to ash in an instant.
On the Fire War Elephant, Chen Hui's body — moments ago dispersed into nothingness — suddenly coalesced back into solid form. Surveying the ruined landscape, his eyes burned with a mixture of horror and rage.
"Black… Flame! I will make you die!" Chen Hui's eyes went crimson, and he spat the words toward Shi Feng one at a time, each syllable dripping with venom.
As Star Ring's vice president, he had been issued a single Ancient Resurrection Scroll — granting him a second life without any death penalty. That was the only reason he still existed.
But Ancient Resurrection Scrolls were priceless beyond measure. He had only received this one upon joining Star Ring. Obtaining another was virtually impossible.
However, that wasn't even the most devastating part.
The death of over a thousand elites was the true killing blow.
These weren't random rank-and-file members — cannon fodder who could only reach the fifth floor of the Trial Tower. They had been meticulously selected, with the weakest among them capable of clearing the seventh floor.
And that wasn't even counting the fact that for this assault on Stone Forest City, Guild Master Lu Xingluo had granted him authority to mobilize a massive number of Grandmaster-level experts. Grandmaster experts — every single one represented an enormous investment of the guild's resources and effort.
And now, in a single move from Shi Feng, over two hundred of them had been wiped out…
Such catastrophic losses were unprecedented in Star Ring's entire history — and yet they had happened under his command, all because of Shi Feng!