"Now that's one hell of a move from Black Flame!" Yuan Tiexin couldn't help but marvel at the charred corpses scattered across the distant border. "The Star River Alliance really got slammed this time."
A general's triumph is built on ten thousands of bones.
Thousands of Star River Alliance's elite members had been wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Equipment lay scattered all over the ground — no one could even tell how much was there.
If you converted it all to gold coins, the amount needed to buy it would be staggering.
Still, for the Star River Alliance, these losses were only flesh wounds. What really mattered was that the Alliance had sent every top player they had to deal with Black Flame. They had surrounded Shi Feng on all sides, and with a single strike, he had annihilated all of them. That was the kind of damage that shattered the Alliance to the core.
Without their high-ranking officers directing the battle, the Alliance's elite army would descend into complete chaos. After that, Zero Wing and the Snake of the Body could slaughter them at will.
In Divine Realm, once a player died, they couldn't contact the outside world until they respawned.
But dying in the wild wasn't like dying in a dungeon — you couldn't resurrect right away. You had to wait half an hour.
Half an hour. By then, the battle in the Stone Claw Mountains would be long over. Respawning would be useless.
After this battle, even Yuan Tiexin couldn't estimate how many elite members the Star River Alliance would lose.
What Yuan Tiexin didn't know, however, was that Shi Feng had done far more than simply kill the Alliance's top players. He had also absorbed a significant number of Immortal Souls from them, preventing those Alliance leaders from logging back into Divine Realm for a considerable period of time.
After a devastating defeat in war, what mattered most to a guild wasn't how many losses it had suffered, but whether it could keep the guild stable.
If a guild's upper echelon couldn't log into Divine Realm for two or three days, Shi Feng could only imagine the chaos that would ensue. Losing a major battle was bad enough, but with the entire leadership gone? Who would want to stay in such a guild?
This was precisely why stealing Immortal Souls had become one of the great taboos in Divine Realm.
And the scene of Shi Feng using Thunder's Wrath to annihilate the Star River Alliance's elites quickly made its way to the official forums.
It instantly set the entire Star Moon Kingdom's forum ablaze.
"Black Flame is straight-up divine! Facing an army of thousands and he still carved through them like nothing. That final move one-shotted the Star River Alliance — who in the Star Moon Kingdom can possibly stand against Black Flame now?!"
"Holy crap, Black Flame actually won that? Is he even human?"
"With a powerhouse like Black Flame, Zero Wing's rise is basically inevitable!"
"All hail the god!"
"Please, Black Flame, take me as your disciple!"
"I want to have Black Flame's babies!"
"I just started playing Divine Realm, but I'm joining Zero Wing no matter what!"
……
In just a few short minutes, the post containing Black Flame's combat video rocketed to the top spot, and Zero Wing became the guild of choice in the hearts of players everywhere.
Beyond the fascination with Black Flame, many people had also grown curious about Zero Wing's other elite members.
A little digging was all it took to leave them stunned.