The demonic god Shi Feng had transformed into stood only a dozen meters tall, completely insignificant compared to the High Great Lords and even Legendary monsters. Yet every single person present gasped at the sight of him.
The aura radiating from Shi Feng at this moment was overwhelmingly powerful — and this was not a matter of quantity, but an entirely different quality.
If the aura of a Legendary monster was like the ocean, then the aura emanating from Shi Feng now was steel.
Faced with such pressure, numerous experts from the various superpowers found themselves unable to even move a muscle. Their impression of Shi Feng was as if an ancient god had descended to look down upon all mortals, leaving nothing in their hearts but terror and reverence — not a shred of resistance could be mustered.
"How is this possible?"
The leaders of the various superpowers stared at Shi Feng, who resembled an ancient god's incarnation, and each one felt an unprecedented sense of oppression — more than that, they felt an absolute suppression at the very level of their very existence.
This feeling was even more intense than what they had experienced when facing Primordial species. It was as though the figure before them was no mere player, but a true god.
"Fourth-Tier Class?! Just how many cards has he been hiding?"
Even Yuan Tiexin, standing right beside Shi Feng, was completely stunned — he half-believed the whole thing was a dream.
The Dark Domain from before had already been astonishing enough, capable of reducing experts to ordinary mortals, but compared to this, it was a child's trick. After all, the Divine Realm was ultimately a world of power.
Just as when the Great Demon Morpheus had been alive, none of the superpowers had dared set foot in the Forest of the Dead — and even under the suppression of the Dark Domain, they had still been unwilling to give up on Stone Forest City.
Now, with Shi Feng transformed into a fourth-tier expert, the threat was even greater!
Current expert players understood all too well the terror of tier differences. Even at the same level, a single tier gap meant a chasm in combat power — let alone a two-tier gap!
The more familiar an expert became with their second-tier body, the more they understood just how devastating the tier system truly was. This was no longer about base stats — it was about that transcendent physique. When base stats and technical skill were equal, a second-tier expert could slaughter a first-tier player with ease.
And the higher the tier, the greater the boost to one's physique.
Right now, Shi Feng was a genuine fourth-tier Class user. His physique was beyond imagination — even if his base stats were the same as everyone else's, killing a Domain-realm expert would be no different from slaughtering a dog. And that was before factoring in the fact that Shi Feng also possessed fourth-tier base stats…
To ordinary players, this might not seem like a big deal. After all, the major guilds had killed plenty of fourth-tier Legendary monsters — what effort would it take to kill a single fourth-tier player?
Yet in the eyes of the major powers, fourth-tier Legendary monsters were a hundred times more agreeable than a fourth-tier player.
Monsters were not players. Monsters could never truly harness their own power to its fullest, but a player could — and even surpass it. Most importantly, a player knew how to fight other players. They possessed a vast arsenal of skills and would eliminate threats before the opponent had any time to prepare, leaving them no chance to fight back…
"Fourth-Tier Class! How does Zero Wing have this kind of trump card?" Chi Jiuchong, watching from afar, nearly had his eyes pop out of his head.
Even a one-tier gap between players meant an enormous difference in combat power. Now, with a two-tier gap, Shi Feng was essentially invincible against them. Killing a second-tier player would be as simple as waving a hand — no different from crushing an ant underfoot.
"Black Flame, fine — you win! We're pulling back!"
The leaders of the various superpowers, confronted with Shi Feng as a fourth-tier expert, understood that there was no longer any chance of taking Stone Forest City. The only option was to retreat, or they would only suffer pointless casualties.
"I told you to leave before, and you refused. Now you want to leave? Do you really think that's an option?"
Shi Feng took a single step forward. His towering figure of over a dozen meters vanished and reappeared twenty or thirty yards away in an instant, charging straight toward the superpowers' combined army, ready to carve through them.
"Black Flame, don't push us too far! We may not be your match, but we can all field fourth-tier combat power as well! If all of our forces unleash our fourth-tier power against Stone Forest City, neither side will come out of this unscathed!"
"That's right! And we each represent the superpowers behind us — do you really want to wage a war to the death against every major superpower?"
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