Staring at the man standing atop the hundred-meter-tall giant tree, Radiance and the others stood slack-jawed, unable to believe what they were seeing.
"How can his strength possibly be this high?"
Those were two area leaders well above level 120!
Any single area leader could threaten a two-hundred-man team of peak Tier 3 experts with a total wipe. Two of them together meant a wipe was practically guaranteed—not a shred of a chance.
Yet right now, one person had them suppressed—even forced back. How could they possibly believe it?
"Is this why they refused to retreat earlier?"
Radiance watched the two area leaders locked in a stalemate and couldn't help recalling how Gu Han and Yuan Xiaoqian hadn't budged an inch before. Understanding dawned on him.
With a party leader who was this monstrous, there truly had been no reason to retreat.
At this moment, forget Radiance and the rest—even Silent Red Star and Huanghuo Kuangzhan, who weren't far from the two area leaders, and Sandblast's group, who were frantically retreating in the distance, looked on with eyes nearly popping out of their heads.
"What on earth has he been doing during this time? Why has his power attribute increased by so much?" Sandblast stared fixedly at Shi Feng up in the tree, his mind drowning in disbelief.
Back in Starshine Fortress, Shi Feng's strength had only been roughly comparable to a Tier 4 Legendary—and that was because he had unlocked the Mana Body.
How much time had even passed since then?
In Sandblast's view, even if Shi Feng had been incredibly lucky and obtained one or two pieces of level-100 Epic equipment, or had some special opportunity, reaching the power of a true same-level Tier 4 Legendary at best would already be impressive. After all, once player levels climbed higher, if weapons and gear didn't keep up, it was extremely difficult to maintain the superior stats one had at lower levels.
In the Divine Realm, weapons and equipment above level 100 were notoriously hard to come by, let alone Epic-grade ones. The vast majority of expert players—even top-tier experts—found their levels had outpaced their gear. That was simply the norm in the Divine Realm.
Yet Shi Feng had not only reached the true power of a Tier 4 Legendary, but in terms of raw strength he actually surpassed the area leaders—creatures whose power far exceeded ordinary Tier 4 Legendary monsters on the outside…
But before anyone could recover from their shock, the two area leaders moved again.
The Horned Giant Bear let out a furious roar and slammed a claw into the ground. The earth shattered instantly, and simultaneously, a dual magic array formed beneath the Horned Giant Bear's feet, expanding to a radius of two to three hundred yards.
In the next moment, rock walls erupted from the ground centered on Shi Feng within a two-hundred-yard radius, completely encasing him.
Tier 4 spell—Earth's Guardian!
At the same time the Horned Giant Bear acted, the Six-Eyed Giant Ape had already leaped into the air above Shi Feng and unfurled a scarlet-red magic array spanning three to four hundred yards in radius.
Tier 4 spell—Fire Dragon Descent!
A fire dragon even larger than the Six-Eyed Giant Ape spread its massive wings in midair and plummeted toward the area where Shi Feng was sealed within the rock walls.
"A combined spell?!"
"Those two area leaders can cast combined magic?!"
"Are you kidding me? That's completely broken! Legendary bosses are supposed to fight fair and square, using their spells one at a time!"
The crowd stared at the two area leaders in stunned disbelief.
Coordinated magic was routine for players, but monsters coordinating their spells—especially Tier 4 bosses doing so—was something they had never witnessed since entering the Divine Realm.
And facing a Tier 4 combined spell from two area leaders, all the spectators could feel was a wave of despair.