Looking at Ke Le and the others, completely unharmed amid the stone forest, and the members of the Hellfire Legion lying on the ground one by one as they dissolved into starlight, the members of the Dark Dragon Party were stunned for a long time.
"Is this what a Third Tier Class looks like?" Dark Dawn stared at the scene, his heart filled with shock.
One could say that battles between Second Tier and Third Tier Classes were simply not on the same level.
Before, he had known that Third Tier Classes were definitely incomparable to Second Tier, but he never expected the gap to be this vast. Those Hellfire members who possessed special bloodline inheritances—Second Tier powerhouses—had been utterly powerless before Third Tier Classes.
The might of Third Tier Classes far exceeded his imagination.
It could be said that Third Tier Classes were no longer simply powerful in terms of stats alone—it was their terrifying reaction speed. Even top Second Tier experts like himself were visibly a step slower than these Third Tier Classes in speed.
And that one-step difference was the key to whether one could withstand an attack. That was precisely why the Hellfire Legion's Second Tier experts had been so easily overwhelmed.
Right now, Zero Wing had a full twenty-four Third Tier Classes. With such combat power, even a ten-thousand-strong Second Tier army would likely be completely annihilated.
At this moment, it wasn't just Dark Dawn who thought this way—every member of the Dark Dragon Party present felt the same. That terrifying power and godlike reaction speed simply could not be made up for by Second Tier numbers alone.
Just as the Dark Dragon Party members were whispering among themselves, they suddenly noticed Ke Le and the others turning their gazes toward them. One by one, they froze like startled birds, nearly turning to flee in terror.
"Party Leader, they wouldn't mistake us for the Star Ring crowd, would they?" The Shadow Priest beside Dark Dawn couldn't help but worry as he watched Ke Le and the others' sweeping gazes.
He had witnessed Ke Le and the others' combat power with his own eyes. If they decided to attack, their fate would be no different from the Hellfire Legion's—possibly even worse.
If players at their level got wiped out, it would be devastating. After all, the gap between level ninety-nine and level one hundred was considerable, and the time required to level up was enormous. They might miss the optimal window for dungeon progression.
"I don't know. Either way, let's go say hello first." Dark Dawn shook his head and prepared to walk over.
But before Dark Dawn could step out of the forest, Ke Le and the others had already collected the Hellfire Legion's drops. They boarded the Red Dragon Airship with the rest of Zero Wing, and with a thunderous roar, vanished into the sky above the stone forest. The members of the Dark Dragon Party let out a deep sigh of relief.
"They completely disregarded us?" Dark Dawn watched Ke Le and the others depart and couldn't help but laugh bitterly.
The strength of their Dark Dragon Party was something even the top superpowers would think twice about encountering. But in Ke Le and the others' eyes, they were nothing more than random mobs on the roadside—not the slightest threat.
But Dark Dawn understood that Ke Le and the others truly had the capital to be so dismissive.
He even felt a twinge of regret. If only the Dark Dragon Party had acted sooner to help Zero Wing, they might have built a much closer relationship with these experts.
"Party Leader, they've left. Are we still heading into the canyon?" The Shadow Priest asked.
"No. We're not going. We're heading back to the city right now." Dark Dawn shook his head slightly.
"Head back? But we haven't been at the Cold Spring Great Forest for long," the Shadow Priest said. "If we go back now, it'll be a huge waste."
Neutral hundred-level maps were extremely far from NPC cities. Even with mounts, the journey took considerable time. So any party that made the trip to the Cold Spring Great Forest would push themselves to the limit before leaving—and they had only spent half their allotted time so far.
"We're going back, and the sooner the better. Ideally, we should join the Star Moon Adventurer's Alliance before word of this gets out." Dark Dawn's expression was dead serious.