The levels of Qing Hong, Elder Jin, and the others left Nu Xin utterly dumbfounded.
The top experts in the Divine Realm were currently only level 110, still a fair distance from level 111, yet most of the people from Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society were already level 115, with the lowest among them at level 114. It was practically a tall tale.
"How can their levels be so high? What on earth did Zero Wing do?" Nu Xin stared at Qing Hong and Elder Jin with undisguised disbelief.
Just a few days ago, he had personally checked their levels — they were only at 109. In a matter of days, they had surged six levels, climbing all the way from 109 to 115.
The two great guilds had cooperated with Zero Wing and then suddenly vanished, and now they had returned like this. The only explanation was Zero Wing.
But he simply could not figure out how Zero Wing had pulled it off.
Players past level 100 — even Tier 3 experts grinding mobs like mad — would consider it the absolute limit to gain a single level every two or three days. The two guilds had disappeared for barely over three days. Gaining two levels per day? Even if an entire superguild poured all its resources into a single person, it would be impossible.
But these two guilds had over two hundred people. What kind of resources and manpower would it take to accomplish something like that?
"Elder Nu Xin, look at their equipment…" A Tier 3 Assassin from Badao Tianxia pointed toward the gear worn by the members of the two great guilds.
Nu Xin followed the assassin's gesture, and his breath hitched sharply.
"Am I dreaming?"
Previously, their attention had been consumed with searching for the mysterious third party that was conquering the Tower of the Ancient Gods, and they had instinctively paid little heed to the two guilds' members. But now, upon a closer look, he realized that most of their equipment was Mythril gear, with only a small amount of Gold-grade or Dark Gold mixed in.
Compared to their own team, where everyone was uniformly equipped with Gold-grade gear, the two guilds' loadouts looked worse on paper. Yet the aura radiating from their members was overwhelmingly powerful — far beyond what a mere five-level advantage could account for.
The only explanation was that the weapons and armor worn by the two guilds' members were level 115 or higher…
Because level 110 Mythril equipment had roughly the same stats as level 105 Gold-grade equipment. The stat bonus from five extra levels existed but was negligible. To project such crushing pressure, their gear would need to be at least an entire tier above — meaning level 115 Mythril equipment at minimum.
Currently, even level 110 equipment was exceedingly rare among the major powers, to say nothing of level 115 gear, which was beyond imagination. After all, such items could only drop from level 115-plus monsters. Mythril equipment in particular typically required Great Lord-tier monsters or above, usually High Great Lords at that, and the gap between a level 115 monster and a level 114 monster was enormous.
Over two hundred people, all decked out in level 115 Mythril equipment or better — these were no longer mere mortals…
"Is it over?" The Tier 3 level-110 Assassin from Badao Tianxia watched as Qing Hong and the others disappeared, his heart filled with bitter amusement. "Guild Master, it seems we really chose wrong."
A mysterious third party conquering the Tower of the Ancient Gods — that had been nothing but their own fantasy.
The force conquering the Tower wasn't some other faction. It was the joint team of Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society. And the only reason Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society had been able to pull it off was entirely thanks to Zero Wing's help.
And merely through Zero Wing's assistance, Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society — forces that had been utterly inferior to them — had now surged far ahead, reaching a level that left them staring up in awe. Combined with the conquest of the Tower of the Ancient Gods, he could already envision the two great guilds rising rapidly to dominate the Dark World.
Or rather, the moment the two guilds completed their conquest, their future status as the two great titans of the Dark World had been all but sealed.
As for why Qing Hong, Elder Jin, and the others hadn't even bothered with the Tower of the Ancient Gods after the conquest and had simply returned to rest — it was because there was no longer any need. Every major power and player in the Dark World had only one exit available to them: the one leading to the Cold Spring Great Forest. As for choosing to pass through the Tower of the Ancient Gods to reach some other plane and then enter the Divine Realm's continent — that was entirely redundant.
Once Qing Hong and the others departed the great hall, word that the Tower of the Ancient Gods had been conquered by the joint forces of Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society spread like wildfire, quickly reaching every corner of the Dark World. In an instant, the entire Dark World was thrown into an uproar.
"How is this possible? Wasn't it said that Heart of the Devil had united all the major factions to assault the Tower of the Ancient Gods?"
"Are these two guilds really that powerful?"
"The Tower of the Ancient Gods has already been mastered? It looks like from now on, the Dark World will be ruled by these two guilds. We should join them now, while there still aren't too many people — otherwise it'll be impossible to get in later!"
The news that Dark Rhapsody and the Divine Society had conquered the Tower of the Ancient Gods ahead of everyone else brought joy to some and despair to others. No one had expected things to turn out this way.