After receiving the key, Ziyan Liuyun couldn't help but feel a surge of anticipation. She thought about returning to the city as quickly as possible, unlocking this key, and becoming an important combat force for the Zero Wing Guild as soon as she could.
Currently, every major guild in White River City appeared calm on the surface, but beneath that calm lay surging undercurrents. No one knew what these guilds were plotting, especially Dark Star Guild and Xiong Ba Tian Xia — neither looked like the kind of guild that would give up after just one or two defeats.
Now that Zero Wing was making such a bold show, and yet these two guilds had done nothing at all, how could that not make people suspicious?
Though she didn't know what schemes these two guilds still had in mind, Ziyan Liuyun knew one thing for certain: as long as Zero Wing was strong enough, no tricks or schemes would make a difference.
"Memory of the Stars?" Ziyan Liuyun examined the key in her hand, murmuring the name under her breath.
Memory of the Stars — a Magic Artifact, a key forged by the ancient and great Star Astrologer Rhenalace. The Star Astrologer Rhenalace's power still lingered within it, currently sealed by a mysterious force. The seal needed to be unlocked before any other information could be viewed, and the seal could only be broken by a Tier 3 Star Astrologer.
Previously, the key had only been labeled as "Unknown," but Shi Feng's Eye of Omniscience had revealed a portion of its details.
Star Astrologer Rhenalace was one of the most dazzling figures among Divine Realm's many legends. It was because of Rhenalace that the Star Astrologer class had risen to prominence. However, following Rhenalace's fall, the entire Star Astrologer class was buried by history. In the current Divine Realm, the Star Astrologer class had all but been forgotten.
"Now that the mechanism is disabled, let's head back too."
Shi Feng glanced around. The magic circle had completely stopped running. What remained was to clear out the Blood Hand Society NPCs outside. Once they wiped out every NPC at the Blood Hand Society's main base in one fell swoop, the expedition quest would be completed.
Just as Shi Feng and the others were leaving the Blood Hand Society's main base, something big was happening in White River City as well.
Originally, Zero Wing's members had only taken up spots from rank 40 onward on White River City's Level Honor Board. But in just one or two hours, every spot from rank 20 onward had also been claimed by Zero Wing. They were now only a dozen or so ranks away from completely seizing the entire Level Honor Board.
For a single guild to monopolize the top hundred spots on a city's Level Honor Board — no guild in the entire Star Moon Kingdom had ever achieved this. Most hadn't even dared to imagine it. After all, every city had numerous experts, and there were always a few power-leveling fanatics. For one guild to surpass every player in an entire city was virtually impossible.
Moreover, White River City was no small city. It was the most important city in the eastern part of the Star Moon Kingdom, and among the Kingdom's hundreds of cities, it ranked fifth in size. Countless guilds and experts had gathered here, making it even more difficult to monopolize the Level Honor Board.
And yet now it was about to happen. How could the players in White River City not be excited? But the most excited of all were the members of Zero Wing. At this moment, quite a few of them had begun shouting in support of Shui Se Qiang Wei and the others who were pushing forward.
Such a thing as dominating the Level Honor Board naturally had its winners and its losers.
At Dark Star, Wei Wo Du Kuang watched as Zero Wing's members closed in behind him, and he threw everything he had into the effort.
Dark Star had dispatched over six hundred more people to help Wei Wo Du Kuang power-level, organized into groups of twenty per team — more than thirty teams in total. These teams spread out across the areas nearest to Wei Wo Du Kuang where monsters were densely packed, grinding mobs together.
Whenever one team was about to finish killing all its monsters, they would immediately invite Wei Wo Du Kuang into the team so he could share the experience points. After the split, Wei Wo Du Kuang would leave the team and join another, cycling through more than thirty teams. Just like that, he kept joining and leaving teams, pure experience-point farming. The speed of his leveling went without saying.
But spending that kind of manpower and resources was something only a guild master like Wei Wo Du Kuang could pull off. Everyone else could only envy him — even wealthy players wouldn't dare try to level this way.
Still, Wei Wo Du Kuang had no other choice. He had sent large numbers of people to track down Zero Wing's leveling squad, but they couldn't find a trace of them. Unable to stop them, he had no recourse but this desperate measure.
What puzzled Wei Wo Du Kuang to no end was how Zero Wing's people were leveling so fast. He was using this method, yet he wasn't leveling much faster than them. If it were just one or two of Zero Wing's members, that would be one thing — but this whole group of people gaining levels at such a speed? What kind of method could possibly achieve that?
If Zero Wing really did push him off the Level Honor Board with so many people, then he, the proud guild master of Dark Star — famous for his levels — would truly become the laughingstock of White River City.