In the spacious high-grade Forging Room, Shi Feng carefully took out the Philosopher's Stone—the supreme alchemical artifact—and placed it on the stone table, beginning his alchemical synthesis.
"I hope ten thousand Magic Crystal Stones will be enough." Seeing the 50% success rate, Shi Feng still felt a twinge of heartache.
During the battle at the Stoneclaw Mountains, each use of the Magic Pulse Cannon consumed a thousand Magic Crystal Stones.
Shuishe Qiangwei had fired no fewer than twenty to thirty shots.
It had certainly felt great, but the Magic Crystal Stones that Zero Wing had painstakingly accumulated had been consumed by more than half. The remaining stockpile was now fewer than fifteen thousand, and spending another ten thousand on top of that was no small expense for Zero Wing.
As Shi Feng was synthesizing the Magic Crystal Stones, Fire Dance sat nearby, quietly watching him.
"I wonder when I'll actually be able to help the Guild Master." Fire Dance couldn't help but think back to the harrowing battle, a trace of frustration welling up inside her.
If Shi Feng hadn't turned the tide single-handedly during the fight against the Seven Deadly Flowers, not a single member of their main team would have survived.
Despite having a significant advantage in base stats, none of them had managed to do anything about a single one of the Seven Deadly Flowers' squad leaders.
Though they had won a grand victory, they were still far from matching the major powers of the Divine Realm.
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Stone Forest Town.
After the battle between the Star River Alliance and Zero Wing, the atmosphere throughout Stone Forest Town had undergone a dramatic transformation.
Previously, every major guild had eyed Stone Forest Town covetously, waiting for Zero Wing's defeat to diminish their prestige and cause their members to flood out, at which point they would all move in for the kill. But all of that had evaporated with the Star River Alliance's defeat.
Moreover, through this battle, everyone had caught a glimpse of Zero Wing's true strength.
In this battle, the Star River Alliance had lost over fifty thousand players, and the various guilds combined had lost another fifty thousand. Together, that was over a hundred thousand Elites lost, while Zero Wing had lost only 4,128 people. Snake of the Body had also lost nearly thirty thousand.
Based on the death toll alone, one could see just how powerful Zero Wing was.
Even with just ten thousand Elites, they could easily crush an army of tens of thousands—and Zero Wing had over twenty thousand Elite members, the equivalent of an army of more than a hundred thousand.
With such strength, what guild would dare move against Zero Wing?
Hadn't the Star River Alliance already shown everyone the consequences?
After the Star River Alliance's defeat, over a thousand players had immediately left the guild. And because the guild's leadership kept failing to appear—even with guild elders stepping forward to stabilize the situation—the number of players who had departed the Star River Alliance now exceeded thirty thousand, and as time went on, more would surely follow.
The major guilds had done only a preliminary estimate: the Star River Alliance's membership would shrink by at least twenty to thirty percent because of this battle, and climbing back would be extremely difficult.
Although neither side had come out unscathed, wars in virtual games were fundamentally different from ordinary conflicts.
Players had more than one life.
On the surface, Zero Wing and Snake of the Body had each lost nearly half their forces, but the number of players they were now recruiting far exceeded the number they had lost. And because of their grand victory, they had also acquired a massive haul of weapons and equipment, significantly bolstering their guild treasuries. Their prestige had soared even higher than before, and their strength had grown rather than diminished.
This left quite a few other guilds green with envy.