A sudden wave of oppressive force swept across the entire Forest of the Dead, filling everyone with terror.
"What's going on?"
"Why have my stats dropped? And why does my body feel so sluggish?"
"What did he do?"
Staring at the changes in their own bodies, everyone fixed their gazes on Shi Feng with a mixture of confusion and fear.
Even an idiot could tell that all of this was caused by Shi Feng's actions. But there were over fifty thousand people here, spread across an area with a radius of several thousand yards — a range so vast that even a Tier Four grand-scale magic couldn't cover it.
Yet faint wisps of black mist drifted through the air everywhere, as if blanketing the entire Forest of the Dead.
Moreover, ordinary domain magic merely suppressed players' base stats. But now, not only had their base stats been drastically reduced, their bodies had become sluggish to an unprecedented degree — worse even than when they had been Tier One Classes…
How could such a sudden change not terrify them?
The leaders of every major superpower present wore dark, grim expressions.
If it were merely a drop in stats, they could have accepted it to some degree. But the deterioration of their physical constitution and the sluggishness of their bodies — that was truly horrifying.
The reason experts were considered experts was because of their fast reactions and their extraordinary awareness that allowed them to control bodies beyond the norm. But now, with their bodies reduced to ordinary ones, there was precious little room for that extraordinary awareness to be brought to bear.
In other words, within this domain, they had all become commoners…
"The effect really is just as the rumors say." Shi Feng tested his own body and couldn't help but feel a twinge of admiration in his heart.
The Tower of Darkness was a high-grade structure, but it served only two functions.
One of those was the Dark Domain!
This domain made no distinction between friend and foe — every living being within its range was affected. Its maximum coverage extended to a radius of one hundred thousand yards.
Within the domain, violent dark energy saturated the area, not only draining creatures' stats but also severely suppressing neural response times, reaction speeds, perception, and more. It stripped expert players of every advantage they had — a power truly deserving of the name "Mortalization Force." For those who had transcended the ordinary, it was no less than a death sentence.
It was precisely because of this that people called the Tower of Darkness the Tower of Death!
Standing beside Shi Feng, Yuan Tiexin's eyes had nearly bulged out of his head. The shock he felt surpassed even that of the major superpowers — after all, he had been watching Shi Feng the entire time and knew full well what he had done.
"What kind of structure is that? How can it possibly be this powerful?" Yuan Tiexin couldn't help but turn his gaze toward the Tower of Darkness standing tall in Stone Forest City.
He had known the Tower of Darkness was extraordinary before, but he never imagined it would be this terrifying!
The mere expansion of its domain had turned experts into ordinary people. For average players, this might not seem like a big deal, but for the major superpowers, this was nothing short of catastrophic.
The reason the major superpowers were superpowers was not merely because of their vast wealth — it was because the quantity and quality of their experts was leagues beyond what ordinary factions could match. Especially in terms of expert quality. If you took the experts out of the equation, then the major superpowers held virtually no advantage over ordinary factions at all.
Any ordinary faction would dare to challenge a superpower — after all, superpowers were simply richer and had more people. But superpowers had to manage far wider territories, and when their large populations were spread across vast maps, the numbers in any one place weren't all that impressive. Moreover, the resources in any given area were finite, and the number of players it could sustain was limited. When it came down to it, the actual headcount of a superpower might not exceed that of an ordinary faction by all that much.
"So, are you all still going to continue?" Shi Feng swept his gaze casually over everyone present, his eyes devoid of joy or sorrow, as if the army of fifty thousand experts before him were nothing more than wildflowers by the roadside — incapable of stirring even the faintest ripple in his heart.