In the resplendent meeting hall, as Yu Bai slowly relayed the incoming information, the already heavy atmosphere grew even more frigid and oppressive, as though time itself had frozen within the entire chamber, rendering it utterly silent.
"Defeated? And completely wiped out? How is that possible?"
Cold Light Poetic Shadow stared at Yu Bai for a long moment before snapping back to her senses, feeling as though he must be joking—or that the intelligence they had received was simply wrong.
The fact that the Sacred Heart of Hands and the Holy Sculpture army had failed to destroy Silverwing Town was already inconceivable enough.
Now she was being told that not only had the Sacred Heart of Hands and the Holy Sculpture army been defeated, but they had been completely annihilated by Zero Wing. That was even more unbelievable than being told that an entire superpower had been wiped out in the blink of an eye.
After all, the Holy Sculpture army that had marched on Silverwing Town numbered over four million—and these were no ordinary roadside mobs that could be dispatched with a single strike. The weakest among them were Sacred Sculpture Destroyers of the Great Lord rank. Even a six-man team led by a Tier 3 expert needed more than ten minutes to take down a single one.
More than four million such Holy Sculpture monsters, standing perfectly still while the entire player population of Silverwing Town hacked away at them—it would be impossible to say how long that would take.
And from the moment the Holy Sculpture army had launched its assault on Silverwing Town to the halfway point of this meeting, a mere two hours had passed at most. How could Zero Wing possibly have annihilated the entire Holy Sculpture army?
Not to mention that these Holy Sculpture monsters were unlike ordinary creatures. The High Great Lord–level Sacred Sculpture Annihilators in particular were the type of monsters that would flee once their health dropped to a certain threshold.
Over 100,000 Sacred Sculpture Annihilators fleeing in every direction—forget about the players of a single Silverwing Town, even ten Silverwing Towns' worth of players wouldn't be able to wipe them all out.
Yet at Hanguang Shiying's softly spoken rhetorical question, everyone present—whether it was Yu Bai or the high-ranking executives of the various superpowers seated around the round table—wore rare expressions of bitter, self-mocking smiles.
If it were possible, they would have truly hoped that the intelligence relayed by their subordinates was fabricated. But the reports contained not only written descriptions but also all manner of images and video footage, so authentic it felt like something out of a dream.
Normally, when their subordinates delivered urgent news, a few paragraphs of text would be the most they would send.
But now, every single one of them was working as diligently as hot-blooded youths—they had sent over a dozen combat videos alone, complete with all sorts of commentary, as though terrified that their superiors wouldn't grasp the significance…
Without another word, Yu Bai simply forwarded the intelligence from his subordinates to Hanguang Shiying.
By the time Hanguang Shiying finished reading the intelligence Yu Bai had forwarded, she was left dumbstruck, no less stunned than Yu Bai and the others.
An indestructible town defensive magic array!
Over three hundred personal guards capable of going head-to-head with the Sacred Sculpture army!
A Tier 4 defensive NPC capable of critically wounding eight Sacred Sculpture Devourers in a single strike!
A Tier 4 direct guardian capable of rendering over a thousand experts immobile in the blink of an eye and reducing them to ash!
Each one more outrageous than the last, each one more unbelievable than the one before.
If it weren't for the fact that Cold Light Poetry Shadow was absolutely certain that the Hand of the Sacred Heart wanted to destroy Zero Wing, and that she knew the four-million-strong Sacred Sculpture army heading for Silverwing Town was real, she would have suspected the Hand of the Sacred Heart and Zero Wing were putting on an act together just to toy with them.
And beyond the major supreme powers receiving the news in the meeting hall, every faction across the Eastern Continent of the Divine Realm was thrown into an uproar.
"Is this the true power of Zero Wing?"
"Incredible! No wonder they didn't take the Hand of the Sacred Heart's threats seriously before — they even wiped out Thousand Eyes outright. Who could possibly breach that kind of strength?"
"A Tier 4 direct guardian, huh? Looks like the Eastern Continent is about to undergo a seismic shift."
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