As Vice-Leader MacAfray surmised that
The Divine Intent Tribe, who had been brimming with killing intent just moments ago, now looked at Shi Feng without any trace of their former hostility. Instead, a hint of wariness and reverence had crept into their gazes.
The members of Azure Commerce who witnessed this scene felt no particular surprise at the shift. None of them mocked the change—they considered it entirely natural.
After all, a third-tier peerless monster was someone who could hold equal footing with the great powers of the Divine Realm all on their own.
One could say such a person stood at the very pinnacle of the Divine Realm!
Whether in raw power or technical skill, they were figures others could only look up to. And the higher one's own tier as a third-tier professional, the greater the gulf one understood it to be.
It was like the heroes among the human race—people who had completely transcended the bounds of normalcy, leaving the rest of humanity far behind.
"Miao Wuyin actually knows a powerhouse of this caliber. I suppose I'll need to have a proper talk with those old coots later." The Azure Commerce third-tier War King Elder stared fixedly at Shi Feng in the magic water mirror, his opinion of Miao Wuyin rising considerably.
Although Azure Commerce was currently led by the Pang family, most of the association's resources were still held by the various families. After all, the major families were roughly equal in strength, and none was particularly willing to defer to the others. The association's combat strength primarily resided in elders like him, so all the major families vied to curry favor with those elders who did not belong to any of the great families.
Among the elders, attitudes toward the major families varied.
He himself was fairly neutral, but several of his close friends were not. Some of them were rather cool toward the Pang family and even openly contrarian.
That might have been fine before, but now that the Pang family's future successor, Miao Wuyin, had deep ties with a peerless monster of this caliber, they would need to seriously reconsider their attitude toward the Pang family—and especially toward Miao Wuyin.
After all, a peerless monster of this level could kill any of the current third-tier powerhouses as easily as playing a game. There was no need for elaborate traps or schemes—one look and you were dead. Unless you had a peerless monster of your own to protect you, death was certain.
While the Azure Commerce elders quietly pondered how to handle their future dealings with the Pang family's Miao Wuyin, the
"Vice-Leader, you must be mistaken. How could he possibly be a peerless monster? Every peerless monster on the western continent is well-known, and he doesn't resemble any of them." The Crimson Witch still refused to believe Vice-Leader MacAfray's speculation, declaring firmly, "He probably drank some kind of potion before coming here that temporarily boosted his strength—that's how he blocked that attack. But such potions never last long. All we have to do is wait, and he'll be exposed."
She instinctively refused to believe that Shi Feng was a peerless monster.
Yet the Six Wings Guild emblem that Shi Feng and his people wore was something she had never seen or even heard of. How could he possibly be a peerless monster?
Moreover, if he truly were a peerless monster, things would become very difficult to handle.
Against a peerless monster, even if they deployed their full strength, the monster could simply turn and flee—something they couldn't prevent. And if the monster came back for revenge later, they would be put in a terribly passive position. Fight or not fight, neither option was appealing. It was precisely for this reason that all the great powers gave peerless monsters a wide berth and avoided provoking them.
"No, he most likely didn't drink any potion. Any potion that dramatically boosts power will cause disharmony in one's surrounding mana. No matter how refined one's control over magic power may be, the inherent wildness of such mana cannot be hidden. And according to my Magic Eye observations, there isn't the slightest hint of wild mana about him. In fact, the density of the mana emanating from his body even exceeds yours." MacAfray shook his head, his gaze on Shi Feng more grave than it had ever been, with an added note of wariness.
"That's impossible! Crimson has a top-tier Gold
"I thought I was seeing things too, but I used the Magic Eye multiple times and got the same result each time. And the gap is quite obvious." MacAfray said with a bitter smile.
The mana density emanating from Shi Feng's body was nearly double that of the Crimson Witch.
He was reluctant to admit it, but his Magic Eye had never been wrong, and the disparity was too great to ignore.
Although the strength of one's Mana Body did not entirely prove the strength of one's overall power, someone with such a formidable Mana Body could not possibly be weak. Constructing a Mana Body was no easy task—one needed a certain level of strength to obtain a powerful Mana Body.
And there was something else he had not mentioned.
Among the other nine people standing on the Thunder Eagle's back alongside Shi Feng, three could rival the Crimson Witch, and one even surpassed her...
This kind of lineup was something even the Divine Intent Tribe could not produce.
"Vice-Leader, so what do we do? We can't just apologize and call it a day, can we?" the third-tier Ranger said.
They were a great power rivaling the super guilds, after all. If word got out that they had backed down, the Divine Intent Tribe's reputation would be severely damaged.
"We have no choice. It seems we'll have to go all out—use that Fourth Tier Hero