A massive crowd of players lined up at the grand and solemn ancient city gate, tens of thousands strong, among them quite a few Tier 3 experts. The spectacle was so impressive that first-time visitors stood there dumbfounded.
At the front of the long queue, a team of over forty people waited quietly at the city gate, every one of them brimming with curiosity about Starlight Bastion.
"There are way too many Tier 3 experts here. I feel like there are more Tier 3 experts here than in all of
Tier 3 class experts were still rare even now. In any major faction, they would be considered pillars of strength. But here at Starlight Bastion, they seemed almost ordinary — roughly one in every ten people was a Tier 3 class expert. This would have been unimaginable in Silver Moon City.
"I'd heard before that Starlight Bastion attracted many experts hoping to obtain Demon God legacies, but this number is just terrifying," said a level-110 Guardian Knight, also a newcomer from Azure Commerce, as he studied those Tier 3 experts. He could sense that many of them had reached the Perfection realm of magical power control, and some had even achieved the Flow realm, just like him.
"The magical power here feels quite special — it gives off a comfortable, almost perfect sensation. My perception of magical power has actually become much clearer," remarked a level-109 female Elementalist who was also Tier 3. "If I could stay here and train continuously, the speed of improvement in my magical power control would definitely be much faster than outside."
While the Azure Commerce newcomers whispered among themselves, Gu Han and Miao Wuyin nearby were also surprised by the magical power within Starlight Bastion.
Under this kind of magical power, their perception of magical elements had genuinely improved quite a bit, which was tremendously helpful for their control of magical power.
"So these are the Three Supreme Magical Elements? Truly extraordinary,"
The fact that Starlight Bastion contained the Three Supreme Magical Elements was no longer a secret among the major superpowers — everyone simply kept quiet about it.
And the free players who had experienced the benefits naturally wanted to keep them to themselves, so they hadn't spread the word either. After all, Starlight Bastion could only accommodate a limited number of players.
As for the changes in magical power, players who weren't particularly sensitive to it would find it very difficult to notice. At most, they'd feel that the magical power here was pleasant and their perception slightly clearer. But this heightened clarity was only useful for players with strong magical sensitivity. For ordinary players, the effect was negligible — after all, ordinary players never even drew upon magical power in combat.
"So the environment here merely approaches the ancient era?" Gu Han carefully felt the ancient-era-like magical power environment of Starlight Bastion, deeply shaken.
He had previously scoffed at the idea that Starlight Bastion possessed an environment approaching the ancient era. After all, it was only approaching it — and even if it were truly an ancient-era environment, so what?
In the ancient era, there had been many powerful experts, but what mattered more was that complete legacies existed. It wasn't the ancient-era environment that had created them.
Of course, the ancient-era environment did have its uses — the concentration of magical power was entirely different. But every major superpower had its own training grounds, where the magical power concentration was equally impressive, sometimes even denser than in certain locations of the ancient era.
However, the magical power environment of Starlight Bastion was far better than he had imagined.
Even for a melee-class expert like himself, he could clearly sense that his magical power affinity had increased — not by much, perhaps ten to twenty percent — but this was enormously helpful for manipulating magical power.
At his current level, with a good training facility in Starlight Bastion, he estimated he could unlock his Magical Body within ten days at most. No wonder Zero Wing had so many experts who had achieved this.
"Damn it! According to the investigators' reports, the altered magical power should only have affected players who were highly sensitive to it. The effect on ordinary Tier 3 players trying to unlock their Magical Bodies should have been minimal. What the hell is going on?" Duan Hanshan stared at the massive queue before Starlight Bastion, feeling an overwhelming urge to strangle his investigators.
What Duan Hanshan didn't know was that Starlight Bastion's magical power environment had indeed been like that before. But as time continued to pass, the magic array within Starlight Bastion kept absorbing the Three Supreme Magical Elements from its surroundings, continuously elevating the environment's magical power.
Now, even Tier 3 experts who weren't particularly sensitive to magical power could benefit significantly.