"A hundred levels!"
"How is that possible?"
"Even the highest-level player on Dragonheart Island is only Level 89, and he only reached that yesterday. How could Shi Feng possibly be Level 100?"
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Since Shi Feng was no longer concealing his level, anyone who looked at him using standard inspection could clearly see his displayed data. The number one hundred instantly sent everyone present into a state of utter chaos.
They were all experts — not ordinary experts, either. They understood all too well how difficult leveling became in the higher ranges and how slow the pace grew. Being able to pull ahead by just two or three levels was already considered extraordinary.
In the fifties, these experts could still maintain a lead of four or five levels or more over ordinary players. But as levels climbed higher, that gap shrank steadily. Right now, even the regular experts on Dragonheart Island had reached Level 85, and the people here were only two or three levels above them at most.
So what was Shi Feng doing, being more than ten levels ahead of all of them?
"His level is really that high?" Feng Qianyu couldn't help but voice her surprise.
She had always known that Shi Feng was mysterious and powerful, but the number one hundred was simply too staggering to process.
Because Level 100 represented far more than just a gap in leveling speed — it was also widely recognized as a strong indicator of personal strength within the Divine Realm. That was something everyone in the know agreed upon.
An expert didn't necessarily have a high level, but someone with a high level was always an expert.
Setting everything else aside, Shi Feng reaching Level 100 alone meant his base stats were vastly superior to everyone else's. Forget the stat bonuses that came with the levels themselves — just his equipment gave him a full three tiers of advantage over the rest.
Moreover, the significance of reaching Level 100 extended well beyond personal combat power. The real advantage lay in the ability to operate in Level 100 maps — to pioneer and explore the uncharted territories that no one had yet set foot in, yielding resources that the major powers currently couldn't even fathom.
Ordinary factions might not have felt this yet, but the superpowers certainly could. The higher the level of a map, the more precious the resources within it, and the more incredible the items that could be found. The ancient civilization artifacts that everyone had recently discovered were a prime example — those had only been unearthed through exploration of the Level 90 maps.
In other words, Zero Wing now possessed a resource advantage that no other superpower could match.
This realization was enough to shut Long Wu's mouth, who had been on the verge of launching into a furious tirade. He could only stare at Shi Feng, seething but unable to say a word.
If Shi Feng's earlier reveal of the Bronze Rank speedboat blueprints had shown everyone that Zero Wing could bring unimaginable benefits to the Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion — winning favor from the guild's upper echelon and elders, earning tolerance for Shi Feng's more aggressive behavior, and establishing Zero Wing as a promising piece of the pie — then with Shi Feng now revealing Level 100, everyone had no choice but to place Zero Wing on equal footing with the Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion.
At the very least, here in the Sea of Death, Zero Wing already possessed capital and strength that rivaled any superpower.
After all, the blueprints were just blueprints. Producing an actual Bronze Rank speedboat required massive quantities of rare resources, and acquiring them was no simple task — even for the Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion. But with Shi Feng's capabilities, combined with Zero Wing's already formidable maritime strength, obtaining those resources would likely prove even easier for them than for the Pavilion.
Which meant Zero Wing could produce over a hundred Bronze Rank speedboats entirely on its own, without borrowing any other faction's power, and instantly rise to become a top-tier dominator of the Sea of Death.
With Zero Wing holding such a position, the guild executives and elders present had no choice but to treat the matter with the utmost seriousness.