"Poison Heart?"
Wind's Regret stared at the wretched figure of Poison Heart Cold Hand crumpled beneath the tree, his eyes filled with shock.
Poison Heart Cold Hand was a bona fide Tier 4 Class holder now — in fact, he was even more powerful than those players who had genuinely advanced to Tier 4, because he could wield all the Tier 4 magic skills of a Greater Demon. That was something no ordinary Tier 4 Class player could ever accomplish.
Yet he had just been sent flying with a single blow…
Meanwhile, Fire Feather Fluttering and Naihe Yixiao looked on at this scene, and beyond the shock, they felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu.
Because not long ago, Seven Lodges had appeared before them in exactly the same way.
"Could the monster Seven Lodges was talking about be the person in that forest?" Naihe Yixiao recalled what Seven Lodges had said before, and his expression turned unspeakably grave.
They had fought tooth and nail, believing they had finally managed to overcome that monster Seven Lodges had warned them about.
Reality, however, had just played the cruelest joke on them.
At this moment, not only was Naihe Yixiao reeling — even Fire Feather Fluttering, who was locked in combat with Fire Dance, was so stunned by what he had witnessed that he nearly lost his head, nearly finishing him off entirely.
Then, after a brief stretch of silence, a man stepped out from the forest. He was clad entirely in pitch-black light armor, draped in a black cloak, with two sharp swords hanging at his waist. The terrifying mana radiating from his body caused the surrounding air to mist over, and in the dim forest, he looked like the Grim Reaper emerging from the night itself, sending chills crawling up every spine.
In an instant, the core members of the three great adventure teams — who had been about to rush in and assist Poison Heart Cold Hand — all turned their gazes back to their three leaders, still locked in combat, their eyes thick with doubt. They had no idea whether they should charge into the forest or not.
If someone as powerful as a Greater Demon like Poison Heart Cold Hand had been blasted out so decisively, then charging in themselves would surely end even worse — perhaps even fatal, just like what had happened to Seven Lodges.
"That mana is even denser than Poison Heart's when he transformed into a Greater Demon. Is he really a Tier 3 Class holder?" Fire Feather Fluttering gazed at Shi Feng emerging from the forest, unable to suppress the shock surging through his heart.
While mana alone couldn't fully determine someone's true strength, the more powerful one's mana was, the greater the destructive potential of their magic skills — and the better their physical condition would be, allowing them to perform well beyond their usual limits.
The explosive surge of power Poison Heart Cold Hand had displayed after transforming into a Tier 4 Class holder had been precisely the phenomenon caused by the surge of mana that came with the advancement.
Yet now, a Tier 3 Swordsman had somehow surpassed even a Tier 4 Class holder in the mana he commanded. It was utterly inconceivable.
"Could he have unlocked his Mana Body?" Wind's Regret stared at the terrifying mana swirling around Shi Feng and could think of only one possibility.
Aside from the rumored ability to unlock one's Mana Body after advancing to Tier 3, he couldn't fathom any other explanation.
"Is it really that strong after unlocking the Mana Body?" Naihe Yixiao's mind was flooded with doubt and disbelief.
As Demon players, unlocking the Mana Body was far more difficult for them than for ordinary players, since their bodies were fundamentally different in composition from those of human players. That was precisely why the players in Demon City never bothered much with the concept — rather than unlocking the Mana Body, it was far more practical to simply raise one's Demon Rank.
Moreover, even among Greater Demons, unlocking the Mana Body was an exceedingly rare feat, let alone among ordinary Demon players.
On top of that, Demon players' bodies were already innately far superior to those of human players, and their mana reserves dwarfed those of humans by a wide margin. There was simply no need to go out of their way to unlock some Mana Body. As long as they raised their Demon Rank and obtained more Demon Power, they could suppress human players with ease — the two sides weren't even on the same level of existence.
But now, to think that a human player who had unlocked the Mana Body could be this powerful — the mana alone was enough to make one's entire body go cold and every hair stand on end. One could only imagine how devastating the boost to his magic skills would be in actual combat.