Although Brexiute's words were delivered in a flat tone, once strung together, they struck like thunder from clear skies, reverberating through the entire space and shocking everyone present.
"Leveled? Flattened?"
Lena couldn't help but scrutinize the footage once more, her heart unable to calm for a long time. Her breathing even grew heavier.
Because in the footage, within a thousand-yard radius there was nothing — nothing but sand, sand, and more sand. But upon closer inspection, one would notice that beyond the thousand-yard perimeter, the surrounding woodlands were piled high with tons of timber…
Many of those trees had been uprooted entirely, and not a few had been shattered into dozens of pieces.
If one zoomed out even further, that so-called sandy wasteland was clearly the heart of a vast forest, as though something had simply erased that entire area from existence.
"That's impossible!" one of the peak third-tier Archmages blurted out in shock. "There's almost no magic element flow in that sand!"
The reminder jolted Lena and the others to awareness, and they couldn't help but draw in a sharp breath.
They had actually forgotten — even though it was recorded combat footage, it was, in truth, a type of recording magic native to the Divine Realm. It could clearly capture not just what had happened in that space, but also the ambient mana fluctuations, allowing players to conduct a thorough analysis of the battle conditions.
And here they had been treating it like some mundane real-world video, completely overlooking the absence of the magic element flow that should have been there…
"Could it be that Zero Wing did this?" Lena stared at the forest-turned-desert and couldn't hold back the question.
A thousand-yard radius, and a spell capable of draining every last drop of magic energy from the area — that was something even a fourth-tier annihilation spell would struggle to achieve, let alone the fact that the only known fourth-tier Class holder was Black Flame.
"That's right. It was Zero Wing's doing," Odin confirmed with a nod, speaking at a measured pace. "According to subsequent reports, the person is called Watercolor Rose, Zero Wing's Vice Guild Master. Her exact strength remains a mystery. However, judging by the scale of the magic, she can be classified as a fourth-tier Wizard who has mastered a grand annihilation spell. Her destructive power is roughly ten times that of Black Flame."
"How is that possible?"
"Isn't Zero Wing just a newly rising quasi-superpower?"
After Odin delivered his brief analysis, the Vision Myth crowd fell into a long, stunned silence, none of them willing to believe it was real.
A fourth-tier Wizard was one thing — but a fourth-tier Wizard who had mastered a grand annihilation spell was something else entirely.
If that were truly the case, then this matter was far graver than any of them had imagined.
A Wizard who had mastered a grand annihilation spell was capable of reducing an NPC major city to rubble. In the current landscape of siege warfare, such a person was essentially invincible.
It didn't matter how many troops or resources you had at your disposal — a single fourth-tier grand annihilation spell would handle it. And if one wasn't enough, a second would follow…
That was all there was to it. Simple, brutal, and absolutely unreasonable.
"But… are we really just going to let this go?" Lena couldn't help but ask.
As one of the five great super guilds, being provoked on this kind of stage was a tremendous humiliation for Vision Myth. If they didn't respond in some way, the entire world would look down on them.
"Of course not," Odin said with a smile. "This debt will certainly be settled — just not now. In fact, I intend to take a page from Miracle."
"Learn from Miracle?" Lena couldn't hide her surprise.
Miracle was merely a superpower. What could they possibly teach Vision Myth?
"Lord Odin is right. We need to learn from Miracle Guild's approach." Brexiute's eyes lit up as well. "We should spread this information far and wide, let every guild know what happened. Perhaps through this matter, Zero Wing can help Frost Heaven's Sword secure a seat — but neither Zero Wing nor Frost Heaven's Sword realize that their real doom comes only after they get it!"
The twelve provisional guild seats on the Divine Continent belonged to those with the strength to claim them.
That was right — those with the strength to claim them.
If a guild relied on the power of a single individual to turn the tide, then what awaited that guild was annihilation.
And after this, Zero Wing's name would be thrust onto the world stage for all to see.
A guild that had trampled all five great super guilds underfoot — this wasn't just Vision Myth's problem. The other four would never sit idle either.
Because in this world, the five great super guilds would never permit the existence of such an entity.
"Good. I'm entrusting this matter to you," Odin said, looking at Brexiute, who had already grasped the implication, and nodding with satisfaction. Then he vanished into the crowd as though he had never been there at all.
Shortly afterward, every major guild in the venue received a staggering piece of news.
Zero Wing had utterly crushed Vision Myth — Vision Myth had lost five resource territories!
The combat footage from all five resource territories was released in full. Black Flame annihilated an entire sandstorm with a single strike. Bai Qingxue slaughtered over thirty peak third-tier experts in one move. Watercolor Rose destroyed an entire resource territory with a single spell. The Holy Lance Demon was forced into retreat by Ziyan Liuyun. The Lightning Warhammer was instantaneously eliminated by a coordinated assault.
Frost Heaven's Sword had become the biggest dark horse of the entire seat competition!
One explosive piece of news after another swept through every guild in the venue in an instant, leaving them all thunderstruck.
"This has to be fake! It's definitely fake!"
"Zero Wing and Frost Heaven's Sword only launched their assault on Vision Myth not long ago — how could it possibly be over already?!"