As Shi Feng launched himself into midair, the Holy Sword Thunder Slayer in his hand transformed into a phantom greatsword that charged straight at the mountain-sized Demon King's Hand. The players across the entire battlefield, drowning in despair, could only stare in dumbfounded silence.
"He's not actually going to try to block the Demon King's Hand head-on, is he?!" Jun Ya gazed at Shi Feng in the distant sky, her eyes filled with utter shock.
The Demon King's Hand possessed Fifth Order destructive power. Once unleashed, it could obliterate everything — even activating a town's defensive magic array would be useless. It was simply an existence that could not be stopped in the current stage of the game.
That was precisely why everyone on the battlefield had fallen into such despair when Zhutian Luanshi used the Demon King's Hand.
But she had never expected that instead of fleeing for his life, Shi Feng would attempt to challenge the Demon King's Hand head-on. It was beyond insane.
The onlookers could only fall silent and shake their heads.
Facing the Demon King's Hand, there was simply nothing a player could do to block it. The only option was to run. But once the Demon King's Hand was released, it instantly froze all space within a radius of several thousand yards. Unless a player possessed a high-tier magic scroll capable of breaking spatial freezes, their only recourse was to flee on foot.
But running several thousand yards in just a few seconds on foot was nothing short of a joke.
"So what if he can overpower our Sentinel Shelter?" Zhutian Luanshi, his entire body enveloped in a layer of black barriers, watched Shi Feng charge toward the pitch-black giant hand with a contemptuous sneer. "Against the Demon King's Hand, it's nothing more than a desperate struggle! Go to the grave together with the rest of us from Sentinel Shelter!"
The Demon King's Hand was his ultimate trump card. He had originally been reluctant to use it, but with annihilation staring him in the face, he certainly wasn't going to let Zero Wing off easy.
And there was only one way to stop the Demon King's Hand.
That was to kill him before he shattered the crystal. Otherwise, once the crystal was broken, the power contained within would not only summon the Demon King's Hand but also generate a protective barrier around him, shielding him from the attack's impact.
Otherwise, aside from the user, no one else would survive.
The instant Zhutian Luanshi finished speaking, the phantom greatsword slammed into the pitch-black giant hand descending from the sky.
The dark hand was like a mountain. The phantom greatsword, though enormous in its own right, was nothing more than an ant compared to the mountain-sized palm — utterly insignificant.
BOOM!
The moment of collision split the sky asunder. A massive spatial rift tore open in midair, spanning a radius of over a hundred yards. The deafening sound reverberated across the entire map, and the horrifying shockwave forced everyone beneath the giant hand to stagger backward. Even players stationed on the walls of Aurora Shelter, several hundred yards away, felt the violent impact.
After the shockwave subsided, the descending giant hand came to an abrupt halt, its momentum ceasing instantaneously, as though it had collided with an invisible wall.
Moments later, a dark figure shot out from the swirling dust in midair like a meteor, crashing heavily into the ground and creating a crater several meters deep and twenty yards in radius.
The sight before them seemed to freeze the entire world, plunging everything into an indescribable, deathly silence.
A full three or four seconds passed before the crowd finally came to their senses.
"He did it!"
"He actually blocked it!"
"That was the Demon King's Hand! Fifth Order power! Is he even human?!"
...
In an instant, every player in Aurora Shelter erupted into cries of astonishment, so overwhelmed that they momentarily forgot the joy of surviving.
"So this is Zero Wing's Guild Master?" Purple Lightning Rakshasa gazed at the pitch-black giant hand gradually dissipating in the sky, her eyes filled with awe.
Simply too powerful!
After leaving the Dark Cavern, she had encountered numerous experts, but not a single one among them was even remotely as formidable as Shi Feng. His strength had long since transcended the limits of language.
The Demon King's Hand had been the terror of the entire Dark Cavern.