"Brother Chi Yu, look — their HP isn't dropping that much. The fight must have just started, and they're not that far from us. If we rush back now, we might still make it in time to help," Liu Qianqian urged anxiously.
But the moment she finished speaking, one member of the escort squad died.
"How is that possible?!"
Liu Qianqian stared in disbelief at the team status bar, where a player's icon had just turned dark grey — proof that they were dead. She knew full well how strong the escort squad was. Every one of those players was an elite from the Star River Alliance. And yet, in just that short span, one of them had fallen. How could she not be shocked?
"It's too late. Our only option now is to kill Black Flame and make up for our losses," Chi Yu shook his head, his gaze fixed on Shi Feng with rage burning in his eyes.
It wasn't just Chi Yu who was furious. Every major guild felt the same.
They had schemed and paid an enormous price to snatch the dropped items, only for Shi Feng to steal them away so effortlessly. Now Shi Feng alone had obtained the entirety of the Mechanical Slaughterer's loot. How could anyone not be enraged?
They had severely underestimated Shi Feng's ambition. From the very beginning of the monster siege, Shi Feng had never intended to let anyone else share in the spoils. He had planned to take everything for himself — and here they had been, thinking everyone would get a piece.
Only now did they realize how naive they had been. From the very start, they had already lost…
The battle had already been going on for a while. Even if they tried to rush back, it would be too late. The only thing left to do was kill Shi Feng. After all, the loot in his hands was roughly equivalent to everything they had combined.
"Kill him! Get him down right now!"
"Black Flame, today is the day you die!"
The major guilds threw caution to the wind. One after another, they charged toward Shi Feng, not caring whether he had set up some kind of trap.
But as the guilds surged forward, Shi Feng and his group had already retreated back into the Teleportation Hall. Undeterred, the guild members charged straight in after them.
As wave after wave of players poured in, Shi Feng spoke through the team chat: "Begin!"
Hei Zi had been waiting — and he unleashed Star of Light without a moment's hesitation.
The doors and corridors of the Teleportation Hall weren't particularly wide. Around a hundred players could completely block them off, and the range of Star of Light happened to cover that area perfectly.
Beams of holy light rained down from above. The entire Teleportation Hall began to shake. Even though the major guilds had come prepared — their rear-line healers already casting waves of healing light — the power of Star of Light was simply too overwhelming. After just two or three volleys, even the tankiest MTs with the highest HP were obliterated.
When Star of Light finally subsided, it had taken out a huge swath of the major guilds' members.
By Shi Feng's rough estimate, over five hundred had died. Hei Zi's name had turned so red it was practically black. If the guards of White River City weren't currently ignoring the killing happening in the Teleportation Hall district, Hei Zi would have been slain by guards dozens of times over.
But this display had shaken the major guilds to their core.
Once again, the importance of large-scale destructive magic was driven home. A guild that possessed large-scale destructive magic versus one that did not — before they had even clashed at close range, this was the difference. This many dead…
It was like an ancient battlefield. Before the fight even began, the archers would start exchanging volleys. But they had no archers, so they could only take the beating. The only option was to tank through it.
Fortunately, this kind of large-scale destructive magic required a very long cooldown and couldn't be used at will. Otherwise, there would be no point in fighting at all — they might as well just stand there and let themselves be killed.
"Don't be afraid! Charge again! Their skills are on cooldown!" Chi Yu called out, his voice calm and commanding.
With that, the major guilds' members launched another charge. This time, far more players rushed in than before.
By now, every member of Zero Wing had braced themselves for battle.
"Right on time. Let me see what this new skill can do."
At that moment, Shi Feng finally activated the Seven Luminaries Ring's Spirit Flame Storm. Compared to Star of Light, the level-five Spirit Flame Storm was even more powerful.