"A Sky Fortress! What's going on?"
"This has to be fake! There's absolutely no way this thing could appear now!"
"There are pictures, so it's legit! I heard that inside the fortress, it's practically a training paradise — your magic element affinity gets a massive boost."
"Zero Wing is really going to blow up this time!"
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On the Twin Towers Kingdom's official forums, the leaked news had left countless people in disbelief. Nobody could figure out how Zero Wing had obtained what was supposed to be nothing more than a fantasy fortress, but the leaked information included screenshots and videos. No matter how unwilling people were to accept it, the reality was undeniable.
In the video, a castle soaring over a hundred meters high rose into the sky above the Tower of the Secret Pact, its battlements wreathed in a canopy of clouds.
Around the castle, all manner of magical runes drifted and shimmered, and a faint white mist lingered at its base, giving it the appearance of a celestial city floating among the heavens. The spectacle was simply beyond the power of words to describe.
"This Sky Fortress is incredible! Just being able to stand on the ramparts, sip tea, and gaze down at the mountains below — that alone would make this life worth living!"
"When is the Sky Fortress opening to the public?"
"I heard Zero Wing is only opening it to members, and allies at most. Everyone else can forget about it — the whole fortress isn't all that large, maybe enough to hold one or two million people at most. And it's stationed at the Tower of the Secret Pact, which nobody is allowed to approach right now, let alone enter the Sky Fortress."
"I'm joining Zero Wing! I have to join the Zero Wing Guild!"
With the appearance and exposure of the Sky Fortress, whether it was the rank-and-file independent players or the major powers of the Twin Towers Kingdom, everyone's jaws were practically on the floor.
Many independent players began actively trying to join Zero Wing.
The battle at Tianquan City had already proven that the three great guilds were unassailable, and Zero Wing in particular boasted five Tier 4 professionals — a feat unmatched across the entire Divine Realm continent. Ordinary superpowers couldn't even compare. And now, with the Sky Fortress and the Tower of the Secret Pact thrown into the mix, even if the major superpowers offered generous benefits, none of it could rival Zero Wing's superior leveling environment.
In an instant, the flood of players rushing to Zero Wing's headquarters to sign up surged dramatically, and the entire Zero Wing Guild was in a frenzy of excitement, thanking their lucky stars they hadn't left early.
Meanwhile, in front of the Tower of the Secret Pact, Bumie Zhanxin and Huanyu had already arrived with a large contingent of Tier 3 experts. Even though they had known what was coming, the sight of the mobile fortress hovering in midair still sent a visible jolt through both of them.
Because this mobile fortress was just too spectacular.
For Tier 3 professionals, they might not have been able to appreciate the full picture, but for Tier 4 experts like themselves, they could clearly sense the fortress's vast magical energy — a reservoir of power blanketing an area of more than ten thousand yards, with all the ambient mana within that radius being drawn inward toward the fortress. The sheer magnitude of that magic was virtually unimaginable.
Most importantly of all, the mobile fortress could move. That single advantage alone placed it in an impregnable position — there was simply no need to be tied down defending a single location.
"With this mobile fortress, Zero Wing has truly risen to the pinnacle of the Divine Realm," Bumie Zhanxin murmured as he gazed at the floating stronghold, his eyes brimming with admiration and awe.