Kite blocked the Ice Lord's strike without suffering a single scratch, leaving Gu Jiuxi and the others dumbstruck.
"This direct guard is way too strong!"
Mu Xiaoxiao's beautiful eyes widened, and it took her a long time to utter a single sentence.
A Level 90 world boss's attack—even a casual one—carried earth-shattering power. Even a Level 100 Tier Three NPC would have to put in serious effort to block it.
After all, this was a Tier Four Legendary monster, and a world boss at that. Its stats were in an entirely different league from ordinary Legendary monsters.
Yet Kite, a Level 95 Tier Two Swordsman, had deflected it as if it were nothing…
"A Tier Two Class going toe-to-toe with a world boss, and only five levels above it at that? Even the Gold-grade guards I've seen weren't this powerful. Could this be a Dark Gold-grade guard?" Gu Jiuxi watched as Kite deflected the Ice Lord's spear time after time, and a tidal wave of shock surged through his heart.
During his time in the Fire Dragon Empire, he had been well acquainted with what grade of direct guard each major power possessed, and it was something ordinary players cared about most.
Average players and ordinary experts knew they couldn't compete with the powerhouses of those superpowers, so their only chance of making it in the Divine Realm was securing a good direct guard. Once properly nurtured, a guard could rival a top-tier expert—or even surpass one.
Across the entire Fire Dragon Empire, over thirty Gold-grade guards had appeared so far, but not a single Dark Gold-grade guard had ever been seen.
Because of this, Dark Gold-grade guards had been widely considered a rank that simply didn't exist yet.
And now Zero Wing actually had one.
If word of this reached the Fire Dragon Empire, it would cause an absolute sensation. After all, a Mythril Rank guard already outmatched top-tier experts of the same level. Although no concrete data existed on Gold-grade guards, everyone was certain they possessed strength beyond those peak experts—so much so that two or three peak experts attacking together might not even be able to defeat a Gold-grade guard.
As for Dark Gold-grade guards, no one even dared to imagine such a thing. They would be invincible at the same level—once nurtured, one could practically walk all over the Divine Realm.
And it seemed Dark Gold-grade guards were even stronger than anyone had imagined. A Level 95 guard tanking a Level 90 world boss—it was absolutely absurd.
Shi Feng could clearly see the astonishment on Gu Jiuxi and the others' faces, but he offered no explanation, merely chuckling to himself.
It was true that Kite was a Dark Gold-grade guard, but Kite was among the elite even among Dark Gold-grade guards. On top of that, he had undergone Soul Enhancement, further boosting his combat power. Most importantly, the two dark iron greatswords in his hands were the remains of a Legendary-grade item—the Black Moon Twin Blades—obtained by completing an Epic-grade quest in a secret realm.
Without the Black Moon Twin Blades, the attack Kite used—merging two sword beams into one—wouldn't have blocked the strike so effortlessly. He would have taken some impact damage for sure.
Shi Feng couldn't help but envy those two swords, but they were NPC weapons, completely unusable by players.
With Kite holding the front line as the main tank, the group easily reached a position within fifty yards of the Ice Lord and could finally begin launching their own attacks.
However, just as Kite arrived in front of the Ice Lord, the boss finally stopped hurling its spear. Instead, it gripped the weapon with both hands and began swinging it in a wide sweeping arc directly at Kite.
The frost spear was like the trunk of a massive tree. With that single sweep, everything within twenty-plus yards in front of the Ice Lord fell within the attack range, sending a chill through everyone's hearts. The sheer width of the attack left no room to dodge—they could only tank it head-on.
And the force of this sweep far exceeded that of the thrown spear. The terrifying wind pressure made it hard for those fifty yards away to even breathe, as though the sweep had sucked all the air out of the surrounding space, creating a vacuum.
Kite, in turn, swung both swords and charged to meet it.