"The Flower of Seven Sins?"
The name made Shi Feng's expression turn serious.
He hadn't expected Liu Shishi to be this ruthless.
Hiring masses of red-named players and studios to harass Zero Wing was one thing—that only caused minor trouble. But hiring the Flower of Seven Sins was an entirely different matter.
As a mysterious assassination organization in the virtual gaming world, the Flower of Seven Sins had a presence in nearly every virtual game. In the fully immersive virtual reality game Divine Realm, they had risen to the absolute peak of their power.
This kind of existence was not something any guild could afford to provoke.
As long as the price was right, forget first-rate guilds—even the president of a super guild could be eliminated. That level of capability terrified every major super guild.
In his previous life, five super guilds had once joined forces to pressure the Flower of Seven Sins, targeting their members and demanding that the organization refuse contracts to kill super guild leadership. It was useless. In less than ten days, all five super guilds gave up, because every single one of their high-ranking officials had been assassinated—some among them even God-ranked experts. After that, no super guild ever meddled with the Flower of Seven Sins again.
The incident had shocked all of Divine Realm and cemented the Flower of Seven Sins as the single most untouchable force in the game.
However, hiring the Flower of Seven Sins didn't come cheap. Even the Kaiyuan Financial Group would feel the sting.
"Liu Shishi hired the Flower of Seven Sins—she must be targeting the guild's leadership. Going after the entire guild would cost even the Kaiyuan Financial Group far more than they'd be willing to pay." Shi Feng fell into contemplation.
The most effective way to cripple Zero Wing would be to kill every high-ranking member back down to level zero. That kind of blow would shatter the guild's morale and completely destroy its reputation.
As for the possibility of the Flower of Seven Sins failing…
From the day the Flower of Seven Sins was established until now, they had never failed once. Their strength was truly bottomless.
Even Shi Feng, in his current state, had very little confidence in his ability to fend off the Flower of Seven Sins' assassination attempts, let alone anyone else in the guild.
"If I remember correctly, the Flower of Seven Sins always needs a considerable amount of time to investigate a target's strength before making their move. In my previous life, their intelligence-gathering period ranged from five to ten days. If Liu Shishi contacted them right after returning, then I should still have a little over four days."
"If the target turns out to be significantly stronger than the initial assessment, the Flower of Seven Sins will renegotiate the price with the client. They only proceed after the client agrees to the new terms."
"The best course of action right now is to dramatically raise the strength of every high-ranking member within four days, forcing the Flower of Seven Sins to re-quote the price. If Liu Shishi decides it's no longer worth the cost, she might cancel the contract."
Shi Feng had a fair understanding of the Flower of Seven Sins' rules and their pricing in his previous life.
The base price to assassinate even a third-rate expert recognized by the Divine Realm system was 500,000 Credit Points. The price increased with the target's actual strength, and that was for a single kill.
Second-rate experts: minimum 3 million Credit Points.
First-rate experts: minimum 10 million Credit Points.
Top-tier experts: minimum 100 million Credit Points.
Peak experts above that went without saying—up to 500 million Credit Points. Ordinary people could never afford the Flower of Seven Sins. Only major guilds and financial conglomerates had the economic foundation to place such a contract.
But rather than spending that kind of money to have someone else do the killing, it was usually better to send your own people. You only turned to the Flower of Seven Sins when you had absolutely no other option yet absolutely needed the target eliminated.
Liu Shishi was exactly in that situation now. Even the Star River Alliance couldn't do anything about Zero Wing, let alone Twilight Echo, which had no home-ground advantage.
Wiping out Zero Wing's entire leadership would cost an astronomical sum—only the Kaiyuan Financial Group could afford it.
The Flower of Seven Sins' current strength assessment of Zero Wing was still incomplete. Based on Shi Feng's estimation, experts who could reach the fifth floor of the Trial Tower numbered over 500,000 Credit Points, the sixth floor over 3 million, the seventh floor over 10 million, and the eighth floor over 100 million.