The Thunder Eagle's summoning whistle was rather plain — it looked just like an ordinary wooden whistle, with deep purple magic patterns etched across its surface that shimmered with a faint glow.
"How is that possible?"
"Am I seeing this right?"
"Weren't there rumors that flying mounts could only be obtained from maps above level one hundred?"
Zhuo Hai and the others stared at the Thunder Eagle's summoning whistle, swallowing hard, unable to believe what they were seeing.
Even as Domain Realm experts who had seen countless rare treasures — some of them even equipped with several epic-grade pieces of equipment and epic-grade weapons — they couldn't help but feel a surge of surprise and excitement at the sight of a flying mount.
Almost every player above level fifty already had a regular mount, but across the entire Divine Realm, not a single player owned a flying mount. Nobody even knew how to go about obtaining one.
In the current Divine Realm, players had already experienced firsthand just how beneficial mounts could be, especially for expert players.
A player's stamina was limited, and so was the area they could traverse. The Divine Realm was vast — a player's meager stamina simply wasn't enough. Mounts could dramatically expand a player's range of activity.
But that was only one of the many advantages mounts offered. The truly significant benefit was time savings.
Once players entered maps above level fifty, teleportation points became scarce in many areas, and the higher the level, the worse it got. Players had to run everywhere on their own, making mounts increasingly important.
Currently, even an Iron Rank mount on the open market was fought over viciously by countless experts. A Mythril Rank mount was worth no less than an epic-grade item, and a Gold-grade mount was something even the guild masters of top-tier guilds would struggle to acquire. As for Dark Gold Rank mounts — even the leaders of superpowers might not have one.
As for experts like them — they already had several epic-grade equipment pieces on hand, yet the mounts they'd managed to obtain were only Mythril Rank and Gold-grade. It was precisely because of these mounts that their leveling speed far surpassed that of other experts.
And what was a flying mount?
It was a mount that could soar through the skies — completely ignoring terrain and moving several times faster than anything on land!
The Divine Realm was a full-immersion virtual reality game. Players' consciousness was completely immersed within it, unlike the semi-immersive virtual games of the past. This made the Divine Realm feel like a real world. Combined with the NPCs' extraordinary intelligence, some players had even become friends with them.
If not for the level displays and system notification panels, most people would have believed they were living in an actual world.
And to fly through the sky like a bird in a real world — that was a dream shared by countless people.
Furthermore, based on the information they had gathered so far, obtaining a flying mount in the Divine Realm was extraordinarily difficult — nowhere near as straightforward as land mounts, which anyone could buy with gold coins.
At this point, it wasn't just Zhuo Hai and the others who were stunned by the Thunder Eagle's summoning whistle — even Shi Feng himself was taken aback.
He knew about the Thunder Eagle as a flying mount and knew that the Thunder Eagle dropped from the Thunder God Secret Realm. However, as far as he was aware, the Thunder Eagle was supposed to come from deeper within the Thunder God Secret Realm — from the Thunder God Mountain Dungeon located on the level-one-hundred map. Moreover, the drop rate was extremely low.
Rumor had it that only the team which achieved the First Clear of Thunder God Mountain had obtained a Thunder Eagle. In the ten years of the Divine Realm's existence, fewer than ten players had ever obtained one — a testament to just how abysmal the Thunder Eagle's drop rate truly was.