"It's over!"
"That Demon God Phantom is way too strong!"
Everyone watched as the Demon God Phantom once again swung its axe toward Shi Feng, their mouths hanging wide open in shock.
The move the Demon God Phantom displayed was practically a large-scale area-of-effect magical attack, and it had zero casting time—it was completely instant. That alone would have been bad enough, but on top of that, it could chain the attack one after another without pause…
Most critically, this move was powerful enough to heavily wound even a High-ranking War Angel and a Tier 4 Hero. How could any player possibly block it?
Even players with invincibility skills would likely be no different.
Ordinary players didn't know that there were no truly invincible skills in the Divine Realm—those defensive magic skills could only withstand attacks up to a certain threshold. If the incoming damage exceeded the defensive limit, the player would still take damage.
Based on the power the Demon God Phantom had shown, its attack was absolutely at the Tier 5 level. It might even rival a single blow from a Tier 5 dragon, and a blow from a Tier 5 dragon could effortlessly shatter the defensive magic array of an NPC city. With the invincibility magic skills currently available to players, there was simply no way they could withstand such a strike.
Most ordinary invincibility-type skills could only block Tier 4 magical attacks—they were completely useless against Tier 5 magic. Otherwise, players who possessed invincibility magic skills wouldn't have been instantly killed upon encountering Tier 5 monsters.
The collapsed space within the temple raged toward Shi Feng like a starving maw, leaving absolutely no room to evade.
Then, golden divine runes suddenly materialized all around Shi Feng, ceaselessly orbiting his body, radiating an indescribable sense of holiness.
BOOM!
With a tremendous explosion, the entire temple shuddered. The horrifying shockwave even reached outside the temple, and every member of the Hell Legion could clearly feel it—the sheer destructive power was apocalyptic.
"It's over!"
"This trial really was a trap. It's nothing that players like us can hope to challenge."
The assembled players watched as dust billowed through the temple, each one shaking their heads and sighing in resignation.
If it weren't for that buggy move from the Demon God Phantom, the High-ranking War Angels and Tier 4 Heroes might have actually pulled it off. But the Demon God Phantom was simply too powerful—it wasn't something players could challenge.
Everyone from Zero Wing wore grim expressions as well.
A normal death would have been one thing, but dying inside the temple meant deleting your character and starting over from scratch.
"Wait—there's still a faint golden light coming from inside the temple!"
Just as everyone thought it was all over, they noticed a dim golden glow flickering in the darkened temple, standing out like a candle flame in the darkness.
"He actually blocked it?!"
Hell Howl stared intently as the dust gradually settled. Inside the temple, Shi Feng was still standing in front of the treasure chest. He looked battered—his HP bar had dropped by more than half—but he had not been one-shotted by the Demon God Phantom's attack.
"Is he even human?!"
Every member of the Hell Legion on the scene was utterly dumbfounded.
Facing a blow that rivaled a Tier 5 dragon's attack and still surviving—that was no longer human. A Tier 5 dragon's strike could raze an entire city, yet it had only taken away half of Shi Feng's HP. That defense was absolutely heaven-defying.
"Insolent little adventurer. It seems your luck truly is remarkable—you managed to break through at the very last moment and successfully activate the magic array of that accursed ring." The Demon God Phantom narrowed its eyes at Shi Feng, and in an instant, the magical energy throughout the temple turned bone-chillingly cold. "But your luck ends here. That ring can only save you once. Do you still have the means to block my next axe?"
With that, the Demon God Phantom raised the massive battle axe high with both hands, its eyes slowly closing. All around it, the ambient magic went berserk, surging toward the axe in wild torrents. The condensed magical energy was so terrifying it became almost corporeal.
A black hole!
Centered on the battle axe, a miniature black hole began to form, sucking everything around it inward. The horrifying gravitational force caused the surrounding space to shatter outright, reduced to absolute nothingness…
"It hadn't even used its full power before?" Shi Feng looked at the miniature black hole and couldn't help but let out a bitter smile.
Just as the Demon God Phantom had said, he had indeed broken through at the critical moment, advancing to Intermediate Magic Master and successfully activating the magic array of the Seven Luminaries Ring. But even with the array active, he still hadn't been able to fully block the Demon God Phantom's strike.
And the Seven Luminaries Ring's Absolute Domain would need several more minutes before it could be used again.
Even if he could use it right now, he probably still couldn't block that miniature black hole…