"So this is the true trump card that Black Flame has been hiding all along?"
Huanyu and Bumie Zhanxin stared fixedly at the figure soaring proudly in the distance — a barefoot, barehanded three-eyed demon in black-patterned armor, wielding a black-flame spear, looking like a demon god forged in fire. The Demon Lord Frobeiro. Their shock was beyond words, and they couldn't help but laugh bitterly to themselves.
Frobeiro (Lord of Death), Demon Lord, Level 135, HP: 13,000,000.
They had long known that someone like Shi Feng would certainly have hidden cards stashed away. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to lead a team into the impossibly dangerous Destruction Mountains relying solely on a fourth-class job.
What they hadn't expected was for Shi Feng's hidden trump card to be this terrifying.
He could even take a Demon Lord — one who stood at the absolute pinnacle of the Dark Abyss — and turn him into a puppet to fight on his behalf...
After all, a Demon Lord was an existence comparable to a fifth-class job, a full tier above an upper Legendary monster in terms of life. And that was saying nothing of the fact that Frobeiro was a titled Demon Lord — calling him a half-step Demon King was hardly an exaggeration.
If the major superpowers currently got wind of this kind of power, their faces would surely become very interesting to watch.
Because every titled Demon Lord had been forged on the countless lives of people in the Divine Realm. The destruction of certain kingdoms in the Divine Realm — quite a few of those had been carried out by these titled Demon Lords.
An existence capable of destroying an entire kingdom — if such a thing were to come and demolish a superpower guild's city, it would be almost insultingly simple.
But when it came to Huanyu and Bumie Zhanxin's rosy fantasies, Shi Feng had entertained similar thoughts before.
But fantasies were only fantasies.
After Shi Feng had advanced to the fourth-class job, he discovered that a wisp of dark energy had taken root within his soul. This energy was extremely faint — so faint that if he hadn't advanced to the fourth-class job, undergone a qualitative transformation in his life form, and achieved a quantum leap in his perception of mana and the mind, he would never have detected it at all.
The Dark Bible possessed such terrifying power that even Legendary items paled in comparison — and that was very much in violation of the Divine Realm's rules.
To obtain corresponding power, one had to accept corresponding risk. That was the balance of the Divine Realm.
But the Dark Bible was clearly exempt from that principle, and was in fact absurdly overpowered.
Now, however, the Dark Bible's drawback had fully manifested. His soul had been contaminated by the dark energy. Though this energy was extremely weak, it was astonishingly pure — pure as a Seven Luster Crystal, completely impervious to any ordinary force that might try to dispel it.
Moreover, the more he used the Dark Bible's power, the purer and stronger this dark energy became. Now that he had summoned a Demon Lord, the rate at which the dark energy was growing had accelerated far beyond normal.
So unless it was an absolute last resort, he no longer dared casually tap into the Dark Bible's power.
While everyone was marveling at the Demon Lord Frobeiro's might, the distant Toddelia — who had been knocked back — let out an earth-shaking roar, like a beast driven into a frenzy.
Her originally semi-translucent body began to glow with a blood-red hue, and her size swelled to well over fifty meters. The ground beneath her could no longer bear Toddelia's power and continued to sink, the area of effect growing ever wider.
The heavy gravitational pressure finally came to a stop when it blanketed a five-hundred-yard radius.
"What an intense gravity domain!" Shi Feng frowned from within the gravity field.
Facing such a gravity domain, even with his fourth-class body enhanced by his own magic domain, he found movement difficult — his speed could barely reach half of normal, to say nothing of his strength.
If a third-class player had been caught in this, they would have been crushed to death.
However, compared to Shi Feng himself, whose mobility had been drastically reduced, Shi Feng's control over Frobeiro felt barely affected — a mere ten to twenty percent drop in speed and strength. Against Toddelia, Frobeiro still held the advantage.
"So this is the power of a Demon Lord?" Shi Feng marveled as he watched.
They were both fourth-class, yet the gap between them was as vast as heaven and earth. He could only exert the most basic control over Frobeiro — he couldn't access Frobeiro's mana or his terrifying spiritual power in the slightest.
These two aspects might seem unimportant, but once you reached the fourth-class job, they were absolutely critical. They were the key to unlocking a combatant's full potential from their base stats.
Right now, he could draw out less than a tenth of Frobeiro's true combat power — and yet even that was already enough to overpower Toddelia...
As long as he kept commanding Frobeiro to hold Toddelia in place while the others poured on all their damage, grinding the upper Legendary down to nothing wasn't impossible.
But Toddelia had no intention of giving Shi Feng that chance.
In an instant, Toddelia began chanting a spell, and the earth around her cracked apart, inch by inch.