Originally, the Guardian Knight Ke Le with her high defense and massive HP pool was headache-inducing enough. They had barely managed to whittle her health down to roughly half.
But then Ke Le's HP instantly recovered.
The sight nearly made Nan Lang cough up blood.
Although Ke Le was the MT, her damage output was anything but low. A casual swing could deal three to four hundred damage to a Dark Star Shield Warrior, and with a skill she could easily hit five or six hundred — even fiercer than what Dark Star's Berserkers were putting out. What's more, Ke Le alone could hold off three or four warriors simultaneously and even send them flying.
Such a boss-tier MT, and yet because of a single female Priest from the Zero Wing Guild, she was completely unkillable.
But that wasn't even what frustrated Nan Lang the most.
Their own MT was at least someone worth mentioning in White River City.
But… but he was simply cut down by a Berserker called Jimo Ruxue and another called Water Buffalo. Even with two healers on him, they couldn't keep him alive. Over three thousand HP — gone. One delivered a devastating critical strike dealing fourteen hundred, the other critted for thirteen hundred. Added to that, each of them landed an execution skill hitting for over a thousand damage. Dying was practically inevitable.
And Huo Wu was even more terrifying. A seamless combo, capped off with a Seven-Star Eviscerate that dealt a crit of twenty-three hundred damage. Another Guardian Knight with three thousand HP hit the ground as well.
Nan Lang was starting to wonder whether they were even playing the same game.
How could the Zero Wing Guild's MT, healers, and DPS be this overwhelmingly powerful, while their own people crumpled like paper at the slightest touch?
In just a brief exchange, Dark Star had already lost over ten players — core members of the guild, not some random newcomers stumbling around White River City's streets. Every single one of them was a skilled, sharp-minded elite player. They might not have been top-tier, but they were damn close. And yet they went down like nothing — three to five hits and it was over.
This kind of battle only made the Dark Star members more and more shaken…
To not have killed a single Zero Wing player by now was an absolutely devastating blow to so many Dark Star elites.
"Don't panic! I refuse to believe this! We outnumber them more than three to one! Assassins and Rangers, go take out their healers! Once the healers are dead, no matter how strong their combat power is, they're finished!" Nan Lang wasn't stupid. He immediately leveraged their advantage.
The zerg strategy. In any virtual game, it was the easiest way to win. Even if individual combat strength fell short, sheer numbers meant you could split your forces — one group to pin down the enemy's main force, the other to strike straight at the core. The side with fewer players was simply helpless, forced to stand and watch.
Over twenty Assassins and Rangers surged from the flank toward Ziyan Liuyun and the other four healers. But Ziyan Liuyun and the rest didn't flee. Instead, they held position and kept healing the frontline, completely ignoring the charging enemies.
The Dark Star players didn't think much of it — they assumed Zero Wing's people had no choice and just charged in.
But when the Dark Star Assassins were only seven or eight yards from Ziyan Liuyun, and the ranged Rangers were still about thirty yards away, two mid-grade Frost Grenades suddenly appeared in the center of the cluster of Assassins and Rangers and detonated.
In an instant, both groups were completely frozen, with streams of -400 damage numbers popping up above their heads.
Seven or eight Assassins immediately used Vanish to break free of the frozen effect, but right after that an Ice Wall materialized, blocking the path between the Dark Star Assassins and Ziyan Liuyun's group.
The one who cast the Ice Wall was none other than Su Qianliu, the Ice Maiden — one of the Five Demon Generals of Shadow that Shi Feng had recruited.
This Ice Wall was deployed at the perfect moment.
Without magic immunity, charging into it would make you move as slow as a turtle, ripe for the slaughter.
Though the Ice Wall only lasted a brief two or three seconds, giving those Assassins a pause, even those couple of seconds of breathing room were critically important.
Meanwhile, the Rangers on the other side had no skill to break free of the control effect and no survival abilities either. They could only stand frozen and watch helplessly.
Seizing the opportunity, Shi Feng activated Silent Step and appeared instantly behind the Rangers.
A bunch of immobilized players were utterly worthless against him. Shi Feng's level had reached 23, and he was now equipped with the epic-grade Seven Luminaries Ring and the Sacred Mark. His stats in every category blew these elite players out of the water by more than double. On top of that, he had activated the Ring of Fire, boosting his damage by 30% while reducing his targets' defense by 30%.
He unleashed a Level 8 Wind Thunder Flash.
Green lightning crackled and split through the air, piercing through the bodies of those Rangers in the blink of an eye.
Numbers flashed above the twelve Rangers' heads: -1102, -1528, -2140.
There were no crits among them, but these Rangers only had a little over two thousand HP each. The total damage of Shi Feng's Wind Thunder Flash exceeded forty-seven hundred points — far beyond their combined HP pool.