System: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first team to complete the Secret Realm conquest of Poison Calamity City. Rewards: Level +1, 50 Free Proficiency Points, 5 Free Legacy Points, 1 Legacy Secret Potion, Divine Realm Reputation +20, and 40 Personal Reputation for Poison Calamity City.
System: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first to complete a Secret Realm challenge with a team below Level 120. 100 Personal Reputation for Poison Calamity City.
System: Congratulations. Your Poison Calamity City Personal Reputation has reached 100 points, unlocking the Poison Calamity City Exchange Merchant. You can now trade for unique items exclusive to Poison Calamity City.
System: Congratulations to the player's team for completing the Sub-Legendary Quest "The Beginning of the End" within one day with a rating of S-Rank. Individual player rewards: Level +1, 10 Free Legacy Points, and 1 Silver Legacy Treasure Chest.
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A barrage of system notifications left everyone stunned.
The rewards were simply absurd!
Just killing Clodia had already granted the team a massive amount of experience — so much that everyone's experience bar had surged by over 40 percent. On top of that, the various quest rewards bumped everyone up by two full levels, pushing even the revived players all the way to Level 114……
"The gains from this one run blow away half a month of grinding dungeons. When we get back, the rest of the guild is going to be green with envy," muttered a main team member of Dark Rhapsody, staring at his level and Legacy Skill Points in barely contained excitement.
That level alone would be enough to shock anyone.
After all, even the top experts across the major superpowers were considered impressive if they reached Level 110. Every single one of them was at least Level 114, and some had already hit 115 — meaning they stood a full sub-tier above those so-called top experts.
A sub-tier in level might not sound like much, but the gap in equipment stats was anything but trivial. With enough Level-Reduction Gems, they could already equip Level 120 gear, and at that point the stat difference would be absolutely massive.
Beyond the level jump, the Legacy Points alone were enough to make anyone's blood boil.
A combined total of 15 Legacy Points — plus the ones earned from leveling — was enough to learn a Tier 3 Legacy Skill, elevating their combat power to the next level. It wasn't out of the question for an Entry-stage Tier 3 expert to suddenly wield the combat strength of a top-tier powerhouse.
"That's nothing — hurry up and check out the Legacy Secret Potion and the Silver Legacy Treasure Chest. Those are the real prizes!" A Level 115 Tier 3 Shield Warrior held up a bottle of pitch-black potion in one hand while eyeing the Silver Treasure Chest in his inventory, barely able to contain his excitement.
Forget this particular Shield Warrior — everyone who had examined the Legacy Secret Potion and the Silver Legacy Treasure Chest looked as though a bomb had gone off. Nobody could stay calm.
**Legacy Secret Potion** — Grandmaster-grade consumable. Grants the user one insight related to Mana Body or Mana Control. Lasts for one hour. Each player may only consume one potion.
**Silver Legacy Treasure Chest** — Opening it yields a high chance of a top-grade weapon or equipment piece of the player's current level; a small chance of a Tier 3 Magic Skill Book for the player's Class; a small chance of Epic-grade equipment; and a tiny chance of a special Legacy or Legacy Weapon for the player's Class. (Preservation time: one natural day.)
Mana Body and Mana Control were the dream of every player in the Divine Realm, yet unlocking or advancing either was staggeringly difficult. Even the major superpowers had yet to find any shortcut, forcing everyone to grind at a snail's pace.
But the Legacy Secret Potion from the rewards could grant exactly that kind of breakthrough opportunity — something money could barely buy.
If they succeeded, they could leap straight to top-tier status overnight. The truly talented among them might even become peak experts sought after across the entire Divine Realm, setting off down an entirely different path from before.
As for the Silver Legacy Treasure Chest, that went without saying — the worst-case scenario was still a top-grade weapon or equipment piece of their level, a significant boost to anyone's combat power. If luck was on their side and they pulled an Epic-grade piece, they'd be set for life.
"If the Guild Master finds out what we gained from cooperating with Zero Wing, he's going to lose his mind," said the female Knight Qing Hong, gazing at the Silver Legacy Treasure Chest she had already opened, her heart brimming with emotion.
The chest she had opened contained a Dark Gold equipment piece at Level 115 — and that was exactly the kind of item that had a high drop rate from these chests.
In other words, all hundred-plus members of their team would each receive at least one Dark Gold equipment piece.
Over a hundred pieces of Level 115 Dark Gold equipment!
If they had tried to raid a Level 115 team dungeon on their own, it would have taken twenty days at minimum to accumulate that many Dark Gold drops. After all, even in a hundred-man Hell Difficulty team dungeon, Dark Gold equipment only had a chance of dropping — not a guaranteed one. Lower difficulty dungeons were even worse.
Yet in just over three days with Zero Wing, their haul exceeded what they could have earned in an entire month of grinding. If they told their Guild Master, he would probably think she had developed delusions of grandeur — or that she was a spy planted by Zero Wing. There was absolutely no third possibility……
Setting aside Hell Howl, Qing Hong, and the others, even Shi Feng — who had only just caught his breath — stood there in a daze.
"Are the rewards really this generous?" Shi Feng stared at the system notifications, struggling to believe what he was seeing.
Because compared to the Legacy Secret Potion and the Silver Legacy Treasure Chest, the real prize was the unlocking of the Poison Calamity City Exchange Merchant. Normally, apart from the First Clear bonus that awarded a large chunk of Personal Reputation, earning more was agonizingly slow — point by painstaking point.
But once the Exchange Merchant was unlocked, players could trade Magic Crystals directly for potions exclusive to Poison Calamity City, as well as potion recipes and equipment blueprints.
The most famous of these potions was the Doom Potion — one thousand Magic Crystals for a single bottle. Drinking it granted a 30 percent chance of Mana Empowerment, drastically accelerating Mana Control improvement for twelve hours; a 60 percent chance of having no effect whatsoever; and a 10 percent chance of plunging the user into Mana Depletion for three hours.
Unlike Legacy Potions or Ancient Potions, which were limited to a single use per player, Doom Potions could be consumed without limit.
In theory, once the Poison Calamity City Exchange Merchant was unlocked, anyone with enough Magic Crystals could mass-produce players with unlocked Mana Bodies in a very short time.
A Tier 3 expert with an unlocked Mana Body was, in the current state of the Divine Realm, the absolute pinnacle of combat power. In special team dungeons and Secret Realms, such a fighter outperformed even peak experts — making it a godsend that was worth its weight in gold. And in Poison Calamity City, it was entirely achievable.
The only catch was that the Doom Potions obtained through exchange were soulbound and untradeable — meaning only players whose Personal Reputation had reached the required threshold could enjoy this privilege. Those who fell short were out of luck entirely. This was precisely why, in his previous life, every major superpower had fought tooth and nail to conquer Poison Calamity City.
Now, a single clear of Poison Calamity City had granted this benefit to every member of the team. At a time when not a single player in the entire Divine Realm had even reached Level 120, this opportunity was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for any guild to skyrocket in power — enough to drive every major superpower into a frenzy.
And beyond the Exchange Merchant, Shi Feng's system notifications contained one extra entry that no one else had received.
System: Congratulations to the player for completing the Sub-Legendary Quest "The Beginning of the End" with an S-Rank rating. Reward: Calamity's Edge. The player may choose one Red-Eyed Sword Saint Legacy Guidance session, or bestow one Sword Saint Blessing upon Calamity's Edge. You have five minutes to decide.