Looking at the staggering number of ordinary anomalies that lay dead, Ning Meng and the others were left completely speechless.
None of them knew what to say.
A single second-tier area-of-effect magic scroll cost at least 200 gold coins, and they had just burned through 24 of them — that was 4,800 gold coins, enough to buy an epic-grade weapon...
The massive haul of experience not only pushed Shi Feng up by one level, but the entire party gained one or two levels each, bringing everyone uniformly to level 40. Some were already close to hitting 41.
"These monsters give insane experience!"
"Ha ha ha, now we're talking — leveling up restored me to full!"
The group stared at the rows upon rows of fallen ordinary anomalies covering the ground, a mix of shock and exhilaration swelling inside them.
The healers and mages who had been running dry on mana now had their reserves fully replenished, and they felt brimming with confidence to take on the remaining level-50 elites and leader-class anomalies.
The reason everyone had felt hopeless before was that they simply couldn't outlast these monsters. There were far too many ordinary anomaly creatures — they figured the party would be wiped out long before they finished clearing them.
"No wonder he was so calm back then — he really did have a way to deal with these monsters all by himself." Ning Meng's gaze drifted to the figure of Shi Feng in his black cloak. Her beautiful eyes blinked several times, and remembering what she had said earlier, two rosy blushes bloomed across her fair, flawless cheeks. She felt deeply ashamed.
If Shi Feng hadn't come to their aid, they really would have all died here.
The others who had objected earlier now fell silent as well. All they felt toward Shi Feng now was pure admiration.
With only fourteen elites and one leader left among the anomalies, the party finally held a numerical advantage. Though the surviving monsters were tougher to handle, Shi Feng's terrifying damage output meant that bringing them down shouldn't pose a major problem.
Just as everyone was thinking they could finally wipe out the last of the anomalies, the remaining creatures suddenly dissolved into black liquid that surged frantically into midair, coalescing together while radiating an increasingly powerful aura.
Everyone watched the writhing black liquid overhead with wary eyes.
"Be careful — when he left my body, he absorbed a considerable amount of power," the Silver Dragon suddenly spoke up.
The moment the Silver Dragon finished speaking, the black liquid transformed into a pitch-black dragon that crashed down upon the ground with a thunderous impact, shattering the earth beneath it.
Though it was called a dragon, its size was nowhere near that of the Silver Dragon — roughly twenty meters long. Still, for players it was a colossal creature, like a seven-story building, capable of swiping an entire group of players to death with a single claw strike.
Anomaly Dragon. Dragon-type anomaly. Tier 2. Level 50. HP: 80 million.
Shi Feng's brow furrowed deeply when he saw the displayed stats, his expression growing unspeakably grave.
Although its level hadn't changed — it had simply risen from a Tier 1 high leader to a Tier 2 lord — the gap between the two was like the distance between heaven and earth.
This gap wasn't a matter of tier. It was a difference in the very plane of existence.
Take the Tier 3 high-rank Frost Bone Dragon Shi Feng had previously slain. Though enormous and dragon-shaped in appearance, it was fundamentally not a true dragon. But the Anomaly Dragon standing before him was the genuine article — a real dragon, one full tier above Fallen Angels in terms of life-plane. Even at only Tier 2, it could defeat a Tier 3 high-rank Frost Bone Dragon of equivalent level. And as an anomaly, its abilities had been massively enhanced across the board.
Right now, Shi Feng couldn't accurately gauge the Anomaly Dragon's true combat power.
But one thing was absolutely certain: the Anomaly Dragon was overwhelmingly powerful. If it were allowed to grow unchecked, the catastrophe it would bring to the players of the Divine Realm would far surpass even the opening of an Abyssal passage.
Because anomalies could grow, and they were not bound by geography — they could go wherever they pleased. Unlike an Abyssal invasion, which only affected neighboring countries.