The moment Shi Feng's words fell, everyone in the valley felt the surrounding space transform completely. It was as though they had been entirely rejected by the space itself—or rather, the entire space had become their enemy.
A crushing pressure bore down on them, reminiscent of being trapped in a super-gravity zone. Simply moving their bodies had become extraordinarily difficult.
Shi Feng, on the other hand, stood as though he were the sovereign of this very domain. Every gesture he made radiated an overwhelming aura of authority.
"No good! A Domain! This is a Magic Domain!"
Many of the allied team experts present instantly recognized the sensation of having their lives wrenched from their own control. Bei Feng San Qiu, the Elf Enchantress, and Jian Zhong Kuang turned an unprecedented shade of ash-gray.
Any player who had spent any time in the Divine Realm knew what a Magic Domain was.
Among NPCs, it was also the benchmark for determining whether someone was a true powerhouse.
Every NPC who commanded a Magic Domain was a being that struck fear into players' hearts—because many NPCs could reduce Tier 3 players to ash with their Magic Domain alone, without ever lifting a finger.
"How can he use a Magic Domain? Isn't that supposed to be power only a handful of Tier 4 NPCs possess?" The Elf Enchantress was utterly shaken, her eyes locked on Shi Feng. The irritation that had been there before was completely gone, replaced by nothing but terror.
A Magic Domain!
Once the Domain was deployed, its wielder became the sovereign!
"How is this possible?" Bei Feng San Qiu stood frozen on the spot, his mind reeling. "Could it be that he really is some kind of monster native to the Divine Realm, not a player at all?"
Having power rivaling that of spirits and demons was one thing—they could simply throw bodies at him and eventually wear down Shi Feng's mental stamina and physical endurance.
But a Magic Domain was an entirely different matter.
A Magic Domain was the perfect counter to swarm tactics. Anyone who entered it without reaching a certain threshold of power was nothing more than an ant, stripped of even the ability to fight.
And the Magic Domain Shi Feng was displaying right now was truly astonishing—its radius spanned a full thousand yards. There was no escaping it.
At that moment, not only Bei Feng San Qiu and the others but even Yan Tianxing and the rest of Zero Wing's upper echelon were watching with jaws on the floor.
"Has the Guild Master's power really reached this level?" Yan Tianxing couldn't help but stare at Shi Feng, who stood tall and proud amidst the crowd.
With this level of power, even if every single person in the allied teams for the Preliminary Battle charged at him together, they probably wouldn't last more than a few swings of his sword.
The only ones who could even hope to resist were absolute powerhouses like Bei Feng San Qiu, whose basic attributes were off the charts—but even that resistance would look laughable.
Within Shi Feng's Magic Domain, Bei Feng San Qiu and the others' combat effectiveness was probably even worse than that of ordinary Tier 3 players in the outside world…
Facing ordinary Tier 3 experts, let alone Shi Feng unenhanced by a Magic Domain, even Zero Wing's members could dispatch them with ease—let alone Shi Feng, who could catch the Elf Enchantress's arrows with his bare hands.
Meanwhile, the various allied teams beyond the thousand-yard perimeter had descended into panic.
"Now all four of these allied teams are dead for certain. With a Magic Domain this vast, there's absolutely no way out for them." Huo Tian watched Bei Feng San Qiu and the others with an incredibly complicated expression.
A grand alliance comprised of four peerless experts and several hundred Tier 3 powerhouses—in the entire Fire Dragon Empire, this would have been a dazzling force that no one dared challenge.
Yet now, all that awaited them was death…
"Boss Huo Tian, what do we do now?" a Level 117 Tier 3 Assassin couldn't help but ask.
Earlier, they had been planning to deal with Zero Wing and the others—not directly attack, just stand by and watch them perish. But now the lives of all four allied teams hung on a single whim from Zero Wing, let alone their own.
"Run!" Huo Tian looked at the darkened space ahead of him and spoke almost on instinct.
Right now, he had no grudge against Zero Wing personally, but the Seven Sins did have some friction with them. If Shi Feng was in a foul mood, he might just sweep them aside as well without a second thought.
And then Huo Tian would have nowhere to cry.
"Run?" The Tier 3 Assassin glanced around the relatively compact special space, a note of panic creeping into his voice. "But Boss, where would we even run? This space is only so big—we could circle it in less than half an hour."
For an ordinary Tier 3 expert, this space might seem vast. But for someone who commanded a Magic Domain, it was nothing more than a small cage—one in which the lives of everyone inside could be claimed at any moment.
"Forfeit! Everyone, forfeit immediately!" Huo Tian gritted his teeth and said.
The Preliminary Battle didn't have to end in mutual destruction. If they didn't want to die, contestants could voluntarily forfeit—though forfeiting required a one-minute channeling time.