Gazing at the deathly silence that had fallen over the army lurking outside the World Tower, the experts from the various major factions who had originally intended to follow Shi Feng outside all halted in their tracks, standing quietly within the safety zone of the hall—as though the moment they crossed the hall's safety line, they would be stepping into the abyss of hell itself.
"All those people were wiped out so easily—are they even human?"
"No, we have to report this to the boss immediately."
Before, everyone had been emboldened by their numbers, believing that Zero Wing wouldn't dare act rashly and they could follow along without worry. But now, looking at the thousands of players lying on the ground, even the experts from the various factions inside the hall didn't dare to move.
Because they realized they had gotten many things wrong from the very beginning.
Thousands of experts had been eliminated just like that—let alone the few hundred players following Shi Feng. They probably wouldn't last more than a few steps outside the hall before being completely wiped out by Zero Wing's people.
And their plans for dealing with Shi Feng would have to be completely reworked.
As long as Zero Wing's main raid team was accompanying Shi Feng, a mere few thousand experts wouldn't be nearly enough. It would take at least ten thousand, or even tens of thousands of troops to surround and besiege them—otherwise, they'd just be handing equipment over to Zero Wing on a silver platter.
Compared to the panic and shock of the faction experts, Feng Qianyu, who had been following alongside Shi Feng, was even more stunned.
"They've even managed to get their hands on level 95 equipment?"
Feng Qianyu was no ordinary expert. Setting aside the fact that she herself was already very close to the Domain realm, her status alone as the head of the Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion granted her access to data that ordinary experts could never hope to see.
Rose of Water and the others certainly didn't lack combat skill, but the crushing effect they'd produced came far more from the massive gap in their base stats.
The people ambushing Shi Feng were no pushovers either. Many of them were top-tier experts from well-known and elite adventuring parties on Dragonheart Island. Their weapons and equipment generally reached the Mythril Rank at level 85—even wearing level 90 Dark Gold gear wouldn't produce such a terrifying effect.
The only possibility was that Rose of Water and her team were all equipped with level 95 Gold-grade gear or above.
In the Divine Realm, equipment advancement lagged far behind level progression. After all, you had to reach a certain level before you could even attempt team dungeons. While some players attempted them early, the casualties were simply too severe to be worth it. As a result, players' equipment almost always fell behind their level—and the gap was often quite severe.
Now Rose of Water and the others had not only reached level 95 but had also attained Gold-grade level 95 equipment or better—putting them at least two full tiers ahead of every major faction on the island.
Word of the thousands of experts who had been eliminated at the Earth Core Mountain Range spread across Dragonheart Island in no time.
"Zero Wing is incredible! Thousands of experts, wiped out just like that. I doubt any ordinary faction will dare to go after Black Flame again."
"Exactly. I heard a lot of adventuring parties have already given up. And even if some superpowers wanted to make a move, they'd have to seriously reassess Zero Wing first. If Warblood wants to deal with Black Flame and Zero Wing now, they'll have to do it themselves."
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A level 95 raid of a hundred might shock the major factions, but a level 95 raid of a hundred that could annihilate thousands of experts—that wasn't just shock. That was outright terror.
So even the major factions who were itching for the Legendary Fragment would have to take a hard look at whether they actually had the capability to obtain it—because the strength Zero Wing had just displayed was no longer something that some ordinary Dragonheart Island factions could hope to handle, even if they banded together.