The female knight Yubai was completely stunned by Hanguang Shiying's words, her mind going blank for several seconds before she could even begin to process what she had heard.
"That's impossible!" Yubai blurted out almost instinctively. "There were nearly nine hundred Tier 3 powerhouses! The elimination round lasted less than ten minutes from start to finish—how could they possibly have killed each other off that quickly?"
Between Tier 3 experts of similar strength, a battle would typically take anywhere from one to two minutes on the low end to four or five minutes on the high end before reaching a conclusion.
This was practically common knowledge within the Divine Realm.
Players who had reached Tier 3 all possessed quite a few life-saving magical skills. A war of attrition was always a viable option, which was exactly why the saying existed: defeating a Tier 3 player was easy, but killing one was a completely different matter.
"No. They didn't kill each other." Hanguang Shiying shook her head slightly, calming herself before continuing. "According to our insider, more than half of the external mercenary teams voluntarily chose to forfeit."
"Forfeit?"
Yubai grew even more confused, feeling that the deeper she dug into this matter, the less sense it made.
And in the dim grand hall, sharing Yubai's bewilderment were the numerous top executives of other major superpowers who had just received the news.
"Have they lost their minds? More than half of them chose to forfeit?!" Qianli Wuya glared at the subordinate reporting the news and couldn't help but shout. "Go investigate immediately! Anyone who chose to forfeit—none of them should expect to receive a single benefit!"
With that many people, they could have accomplished anything! They could have buried Zero Wing through sheer numbers alone!
"Vice President Wuya." The gray-robed Berserker shrank back slightly and said in a low voice, "Those who forfeited… they weren't from our guild's mercenary teams."
"Then where are our mercenaries?" Qianli Wuya shot back.
"Our mercenaries?" The gray-robed Berserker glanced at Qianli Wuya and hesitated for a moment before answering. "They were all killed by Zero Wing's Black Flame. And it wasn't just our Miracle guild's mercenaries—the three allied guilds' mercenaries were also taken out by Black Flame alone…"
Qianli Wuya's eyes went wide. He thought he had misheard and couldn't help but ask again to confirm. "You're certain it was Black Flame alone?"
"I confirmed with them myself. It really was just Black Flame. Four hundred people—none survived." The gray-robed Berserker nodded.
"Alone? He wiped out four hundred Tier 3 powerhouses by himself?" Qianli Wuya suddenly felt lightheaded.
The sheer volume of information was simply too much for his brain to process. He almost felt like everything in front of him was a dream.
"According to the mercenaries' reports, Black Flame has already mastered a magical domain. The scale of that domain was beyond anything anyone had ever heard of. Inside the domain, Tier 3 powerhouses could barely muster a tenth of their usual combat strength, and even moving around was extremely difficult…" The gray-robed Berserker gritted his teeth and forced himself to continue.
A player mastering a magical domain—and one that powerful, at that. If someone had told him this before, he would have thought that person was either insane or a complete newcomer to the Divine Realm who had no idea what a magical domain even was.
"A magical domain?" Qianli Wuya was completely dumbfounded. "How is it possible for him to have mastered a magical domain?"
At that moment, it wasn't just Qianli Wuya who was stunned. Every major superpower that had received the news found it equally unbelievable, because this piece of information was even harder to accept than the fact that Shi Feng had single-handedly annihilated all the mercenary teams.
Within the Divine Realm, mastering a magical domain was the benchmark for determining an NPC's true strength. Once someone commanded a magical domain, they were essentially a regional powerhouse across the entire continent of the Divine Realm.
Not just among players—a regional powerhouse in the entirety of the Divine Realm!
Meanwhile, Frost Heavens Sword received the confirmed news and was plunged into silence and dead air. Yucang's face was a hundred times worse than a salted fish, his expression utterly grim.
Because no one in the entire Frost Heavens Sword had believed a word of what Shi Feng had said before. In their eyes, it had been nothing but jokes and empty boasts—and Yucang himself had mocked Shi Feng's arrogance and ignorance.