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After Feng stored the Nine-star Polar Domain Magic Array Illustration, he bid Carrian Walker and the others farewell and used a Return Scroll to teleport back to White River City.
Upon appearing in the Teleportation Hall, Feng made a trip to the Bank, depositing his gains in his and Zero Wing's Private Warehouses. He kept the Blood Refining Crystal and Solomon's Book on himself while storing the Disaster Treasure Chest, Purple Magic Crystal Treasure Chest, Bronze Mastery Books, and the thousands of high-ranking items he obtained in the Blood Refining Passage, as well as from the Thunder Beast Guards.
With the additional equipment, Feng had once again enriched Zero Wing's Warehouse, now having even more Level 50 and above equipment to support the guild's members during Zero Wing's expansion.
He had even left behind most of the Life Essences formed by the Blood Refining Crystal for the Burning Wing Legion members to retrieve for Contribution Points and use in their expeditions.
Afterwards, Feng made a trip to Stone Forest Town. Compared to the mess it had turned into following the Obelisk's reveal and Black Flame's rampage, Stone Forest Town currently looked much more accommodating and like a Town after a day of being repaired by Black Flame.
The Perfect Clone was reconstructing Stone Forest Town at the moment, monotonously designing it in the most optimal way for its operations.
Thanks to them having directly killed the fully released Lancelot right off the bat, Black Flame had been able to immediately reconstruct Stone Forest Town as an Advanced Town and use a Grandmaster Town Design as its template for construction.
Landing next to Black Flame, Feng got the gist of how far he had gotten with rebuilding Stone Forest Town.
They then switched places.
After leaving Black Flame to make Intermediate Mana Armor Kits for several days nonstop, hijacking the clone's consciousness after he fell into a bad state himself, and then immediately putting him to work in reconstructing a Town after massacring the various guilds' elites and experts without any sort of break, Feng felt it was only right to let Black Flame do something else that was less of a chore while he takes on the task of building Stone Forest Town.
Or at least that's what he tells Black Flame, as if they both didn't know that Feng didn't really give a single shit about being fair and equally distributing the boring work between them, and that he was simply doing this out of concern the Perfect Clone might truly get fed up with all of this and go berserk.
Either way, Black Flame was happy to get out of having to construct an entire Town despite being aware of Feng's thoughts, gladly switching jobs with Feng.
Since updating the clone would create problems and disrupt his plans, Feng gave Black Flame the Wraithwood Sigil, the Fragmented Legendary Seven Luminaries Ring, and the Fragmented Legendary Blazing Meteor, knowing that for the things they'll be doing next, it was more beneficial for Black Flame to have these new items, while Feng was better off without them.
Feng also passed the Fragmented Legendary Blood Refining Crystal to Black Flame after taking out most of the Life Crystals.
Once they finished switching out the equipment, Feng remained in Stone Forest Town to finish its construction while Black Flame, with the Manager Token of the World Summit, went to Zero Wing's Guild Residence, having one of the manager members call all the remaining restored members who haven't been sent to the Dark Den.
Enough time has passed ever since Feng sent the first batch of restored members to the World Summit for the Gate of Darkness skill of the Manager Token to come off cooldown, so Black Flame gathered the remaining Burning Wing Legion members who had not been able to travel into the Dark Den last time.
After opening the Gate of Darkness, Black Flame left the Manager Token with one of the manager players who wasn't going to the World Summit since there still needed to be restored members to keep up Zero Wing's operations, before going through the gate himself.
Appearing at the entrance of the World Summit, the same place the rest had after lowering his Level, Black Flame led the Burning Wing Legion members to the testing ground, ignoring the disappointed Fallen Angel flying around, and doing the same thing as the first batch to get everyone in the World Summit with the maximum amount of minutes possible.
Acquiring the Legendary Key himself and having 118,000 minutes to spend on the World Summit, Black Flame went onto the Divine Staircase after all of the Zero Wing members passed the test.
He ascended through the Divine Shrines even faster than Feng at his peak since he had better equipment and was Level 99, flying up and killing Guardian Bosses in the blink of an eye.
Within a minute, Black Flame reached the 30th Divine Shrine, which lizardmen occupied. Upon arriving at the center of the Divine Shrine, Black Flame witnessed a gathering of lizards holding a ritual as a Grand Lord ranked Lizardman Chief chanted some incantations.
Moments later, a Bronze Secret Technique Tablet descended from the shattered space created by the Tablet Ritual.
With so many Zero Wing members having gone up the Divine Staircase and all of them reaching the 30th Divine Shrine, this Tablet Ritual had taken place lots of times, resulting in the rank and value of the Legacy Tablets which appear in all future Tablet Rituals to greatly decrease.
Hence Black Flame only encountered a Bronze Legacy Tablet containing a weak Attack-type Combat Technique.
Wiping out all the lizardmen quickly, the Perfect Clone climbed higher up the Divine Staircase.
Nothing could stop Black Flame's ascent, even the Mythic ranked Guardian Bosses falling to him within a few hits without the clone using any skills.
When he reached the 60th Divine Shrine and faced a Superior Mythic Guardian Boss, the difficulty increased to a point where Black Flame could no longer end the fight as easily, taking a bit of time to solo the monsters and needing to use a few skills.
Even so, Black Flame quickly eliminated all the obstacles and resumed climbing up to one Divine Shrine after another, albeit slightly slower.
As he reached higher Shrines, Black Flame's clear time took longer and longer, needing several minutes to go through the Divine Shrines once the Guardian Bosses had a special Bloodline and later became Archaic Species Superior Mythic monsters.
By the time he reached the 90th Divine Shrine, Black Flame spent around half an hour to an hour per Shrine.
It took him over thirty hours to finally climb up to the 100th Divine Shrine.
Along the way, Black Flame had killed every Guardian Boss of each Shrine, gaining 18 Exploits and 21,711,360 Shrine Points for his hard work, along with three Bronze Secret Technique Tablets that were a part of one Legacy Tablet which required 18 of them to be completed, and a couple Advanced Forging Design Fragments.
He also acquired a huge amount of Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments from the powerful Guardian Bosses he had killed, amassing an impressive stockpile of the crystals.
When they eventually add up the Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments Feng had obtained, the ones Black Flame was currently gathering, and the amount Zero Wing's members have been getting from their runs, synthesizing them into Mana Barrier Crystals, the guild will have over ten thousand of the precious crystals.
Once Stone Forest Town and Zero Wing's Cities begin full operation, these Mana Barrier Crystals will be of great use in minimizing their expenditures.
Apart from the physical items he had gained from the loot, Black Flame has also been farming the Superior Mythic monsters in the various Shrines, taking his time to slaughter all the powerful monsters living there.
During Feng's trip to the Evil Ghost Domain, aside from making Intermediate Mana Armor Kits, the Perfect Clone had also done a few forging projects to invent things that could come to be of great use.
Previously, soon after Feng had headed to the Dark Den using his Tier 4 Position Teleportation Scroll, Black Flame had begun using one of the Book of Creation's new skills, Creation Eye, to get information on some items and see how they were made in order to use the knowledge towards creating new items.
The first item he used Creation Eye on was Icarus's Heart. It provided him with a lot of interesting information, but what Black Flame particularly cared about for his project was the Necklace's ability to store Life Force.
Following which, using the knowledge Feng had obtained by using Creation Eye on the Fragmented Legendary Levellume Capsule and what he had just witnessed from Icarus's Heart, Black Flame invented an item similar in nature to the EXP storage, but meant for storing Life Force instead.
It was a spectacular success, and Black Flame had even been able to create multiple of them, using the Life Capturers while wiping out the various guilds' members after filling up Icarus's Heart with Life Force to gather more in reserve in case he or Feng ever used up all the 30,000 units of Life Force for boosting Divine Providence and need more.
Though, since he had not expected a million players to gather for the fight over the Stoneclaw Mountains, Black Flame had not prepared enough Life Capturers to store Life Force from each of the players; only having an extra 400,000 or so units.
After Icarus's Heart, Black Flame had used Creation Eye on the Pandemonium Lashblade in order to learn about its soul-capturing capabilities in full detail.
Although he already knew of ways to capture souls and possibilities of implementing them, that required a way higher tier to pull off, while the Demon Sword which was created with the First Demon Emperor's power source and used by the second strongest demon to ever exist was quite unique in nature and worthy of properly analyzing.
Seeing the Pandemonium Lashblade's grand creation process had given the Perfect Clone new revelations and an idea to utilize both the features of the Levellume Capsule, Life Capturer, and the Pandemonium Lashblade to invent an item that could capture souls similarly to the chain sword, but not as powerful or with any functions.
The Kill Collectors simply stored the souls of creatures killed by the holder, but it wasn't possible to simply take them out, and one would need special items or something else to extract the souls. This, however, wasn't a problem for them, since Feng could take out and manipulate the souls with his ability.
Having made multiple of these beforehand, Black Flame now went around slaughtering the Superior Mythic monsters on the Divine Staircase, which possess a lot less HP than those in the wild and are much easier to kill, snatching up their souls in Kill Collectors after filling up his Pandemonium Lashblade.
This place served as the perfect grinding spot for gathering up high-ranking souls that they could feed to Celestina or Lancelot, or use for other purposes.
Hence, it was a good chance to stock up on a large number of them, which Black Flame chose to do as he took his time from the 60th Divine Shrine to kill most of the Superior Mythic ranked monsters that appeared, especially on the later Shrines which housed even more powerful Superior Mythic monsters. The only downside was the limited number of souls he could store up, and that it took a long time to kill his targets.
Once Black Flame reached the 90th Divine Shrine, though, he stopped simply attacking and fighting the Guardian Bosses and other monsters, their strength being much higher and their levels no longer so low that the Perfect Clone could rely on the level suppression to defeat them with only a bit of effort.
He was also no longer able to kill the Superior Mythic monsters that rivaled World Bosses of the same rank and level.
That's when Black Flame called out the Ghost Tree. Its giant form occupied the center of the 90th Divine Shrine, immediately springing upon the Level 90 Superior Mythic monster.
Although Black Flame's level was not high enough to dominate the Guardian Bosses from this point, that was not the case for the Ghost Tree. Standing at Level 109, even if the Ghost Tree's overall strength is lower than the boss monster's on the same level, it still easily beat the living daylights out of the Guardian Boss due to the difference in their levels.
Continuously smacking it with the hundreds of branches and draining the Guardian Boss's HP using various skills as the two fought, the Ghost Tree overwhelmed its opponent fairly quickly, and with Black Flame adding more firepower to the fight, it didn't take too much time for him and the Ghost Tree to bring the Guardian Boss near death.
Black Flame then continued up after the Ghost Tree absorbed the Guardian Boss and grew stronger.
Its death gave Black Flame 3 Exploits and 800,000 Shrine Points, along with some impressive drops thanks to Divine Providence having been activated before the Guardian Boss was killed; high-ranking items and materials, a few Advanced Forging Design Fragments, and many Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments.
As he climbed higher, Black Flame faced Guardian Bosses possessing power significantly greater than the one on the 90th Divine Shrine, which proved as great nourishment for the Ghost Tree, but it did require more effort to beat down the Superior Mythic monsters as they progressed, and when Black Flame faced the Guardian Boss of the 95th Divine Shrine, he was forced to use Power of Darkness.
Their strength was not something Black Flame could hope to compete with anymore now that there was only a small level gap between them, so in order to continue draining their HP at a fast pace before the Ghost Tree's one-and-a-half-hour enhanced duration expired, he activated Power of Darkness and went full ham on them.
He and the Ghost Tree ascended through the Shrines while collecting the souls of the Guardian Bosses and any Superior Mythic monsters that they could quickly take down, along with gaining plenty of items from their kills.
A little before the Ghost Tree skill's duration ran out, Black Flame finished off the 99th Divine Shrine's Guardian Boss, the Ghost Tree having absorbed the strength of every boss monster and Superior Mythic monster that got in their way which resulted in it growing much more powerful than before.
Though, after seeing its progress upon clearing the 99th Divine Shrine, Black Flame felt disappointment.
It had been his and Feng's hope that, with the number of powerful monsters the Ghost Tree had absorbed while Feng was bringing it up the Divine Staircase, absorbing the life force and power from eight Level 200 Grand Lords, and with the incredibly powerful Superior Mythic monsters it had just eaten with Black Flame, the Ghost Tree would evolve and reach Legendary rank.
If the Ghost Tree had progressed to Tier 5, their combat power would have risen to a whole new level, and things would become much easier for Black Flame. Since it had not, though, the Perfect Clone could only proceed with his original plan.
The Ghost Tree could not be brought out from the Wraithwood Sigil for the next twenty-four hours while the skill was on cooldown, so Black Flame didn't bother entering the 100th Divine Shrine, choosing to leave the Divine Staircase and restart his climb.
Like this, he could continue going up and earning more Shrine Points and items while waiting for the cooldown to finish. Gaining even more points to spend, Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments, fragments for the Advanced Forging Designs, Blood Energy for the Blood Refining Crystal, and souls from powerful Superior Mythic monsters along the way, Black Flame arrived at the 100th Divine Shrine once more by the time the Ghost Tree could be summoned again.
Appearing in the small cavern from which dozens of crevices spread out on the walls and made for passages, Black Flame maneuvered past the large and thick cobwebs everywhere in the cave system, avoiding the Level 100 spider monsters of various high ranks along the way
Soon, Black Flame faced the monster that had nearly been the death of him and the main body for the second time, only this time he was standing here in his own body while preparing to go toe to toe with the Hellish Broodmother.
The Legendary Guardian Boss was doing the same thing as when Feng was in the 100th Divine Shrine, having a gathering of many Mythic and Superior Mythic ranked spiders while doing a ritual.
When the Tablet Ritual began, a golden Secret Technique Tablet appeared, unlike the Platinum Legacy Tablet Feng had obtained, but that was to be expected. Seeing that the Hellish Broodmother is about to receive the gold tablet and send it away, Black Flame made his move.
Imperial Ascendence!
Blade Liberation!
Flame Domain!
Using the upgraded Aura of Fire from the Fragmented Legendary Seven Luminaries Ring, Black Flame enveloped all of the powerful spiders. Compared to before when Feng had attempted to set the Hellish Broodmother and its minions ablaze with Flame Domain while the Aura of Fire was still at Tier 0, the large-scale destruction skill was much more effective this time around.
Even the Legendary monster began receiving real damage when caught within the Tier 5 Flame Domain's range, being burned as its HP decreased by visible amounts. As for the rest of the spiders, their state was much more pitiful.
At Tier 5, Flame Domain has the capability to even damage Tier 6 creatures to a very significant extent, let alone those at Tier 5 and below. Unfortunately, Feng's and Black Flame's tier was too low right now for them to have the ability to properly utilize such high-ranking skills to their full potential due to the level of their Mana and lack of Mana Body, only being able to use their raw power and effects.
Still, that was enough to put nearly any Tier 4 monster in a very bad position, and the Hellish Broodmother was no longer an invincible existence like before. That being said, the gap in attributes was still very much present, and Black Flame would quickly get swatted like a fly by the Legendary monster.
Meanwhile, the moment he cast Flame Domain, the Hellish Broodmother noticed Black Flame's presence, leaving the tablet behind and instantaneously attacking the intruder without any hesitation.
During the time that he was possessing Feng's body, the Perfect Clone had only been able to rely on his instincts in order to avoid getting instantly killed, but at the moment, Black Flame's senses could barely keep up with the Legendary monster now that he was Level 99 and had better equipment, even if his Bloodline was a rank lower compared to the Draconic-Voidling Apex Bloodline and no longer had the Destroyed Yog-Sothoth on him.
There was no way for him to properly avoid the Hellish Broodmother's incoming attack without using any skills, or survive in a fight against it, of course, however it fulfilled the conditions for Black Flame standing a chance at winning this thing.
Just as the Legendary spider's leg struck out towards Black Flame, a giant tree rose up from the ground below them, causing the Hellish Broodmother's attack to harmlessly pass through its ghostly form without much resistance and damage, while the human was lifted from the surface as the massive tree towered above the Legendary monster and pushed up against the cavern's ceiling.
Being safely out of harm's way within the Ghost Tree's crown, Black Flame commanded his summoned specter to attack. Its hundreds of branches struck in unison, leaving no gap for the spider to slip through.
Without waiting for the many branches to descend upon it, the Hellish Broodmother backed up, colliding with the Ghost Tree's attempts to restrict it. Although the Ghost Tree did decent damage to the Legendary monster and slowed its escape, the massive purple spider was able to free itself from the branches without too much effort.
As an Archaic Species Superior Mythic monster stronger than World Bosses after absorbing ten of such creatures and standing at the top of Tier 4 with a foot, or more like roots, into Tier 5 and having combat power on that level, as well as being a Level 109 monster, the Ghost Tree had the strength to contend against the Hellish Broodmother that was nine levels lower than it.
Though it being capable of fighting against the Legendary monster was largely due to the Ghost Tree's special constitution and the type of monster the Hellish Broodmother is. The Legendary ranked Guardian Boss was a mostly well-rounded melee monster in a beastly form, meaning it had no humanoid limbs or methods to wield weapons and simply relied on attacking with its animalistic parts, with its strongest aspect being the spider's high speed.
A creature like the Ghost Tree that was mostly immune to physical damage was a hard counter for pretty much anything that used simple melee attacks as their primary source of damage since only magical attacks with lots of Mana could significantly harm it.
The Hellish Broodmother is a Legendary monster and a Realm Lord, so even as a melee creature, it could still threaten the Ghost Tree due to possessing a powerful Mana Body and using Mana to enhance its attacks.
Furthermore, it had plenty of Tier 5 skills at its disposal that could seriously damage the Ghost Tree.
But it wasn't like Black Flame's tree specter was without any means to fight back, its strength not being far behind the Hellish Broodmother and being able to efficiently counter the Guardian Boss's fighting style, sending its hundreds of branches to fill up the cavern and attack from all sides.
Although the Hellish Broodmother fought back against the branches, all of its legs and melee attacks failed to extensively damage the many ghost wood appendages, while the skills it used were either blocked or avoided to some extent.
With the sheer number and size of the branches striking at it, the Legendary Guardian Boss ended up receiving dozens of hits. Its spider body and many legs did allow for extremely fast movement, but it was useless in this cavern that became a bit cramped after the Ghost Tree's enormous body occupied it, too many attacks coming and restricting the Hellish Broodmother's movements from all sides.
In just a dozen or so seconds, the Realm Lord had incurred plenty of damage. Though, it was only a drop in the bucket to its 50 billion HP.
On the other hand, the Tier 4 monsters were getting beaten down, the spiders having been too tightly packed together and causing many of them to not have the room to move around and escape the radius Flame Domain covered.
The larger Superior Mythic ones pushed aside the Mythic spiders and rushed out of the pillars of flames, only to be struck back into the fire by a couple of branches from the Ghost Tree. Its ghostly branches, although considerably injured by Flame Domain as well while within the flames, could endure the scorching fire as they battered the hundreds of spiders, being able to quickly regenerate thanks to its strength and spiritual form.
Even the strongest among these monsters was a regular Archaic Species Superior Mythic creature, much weaker than the World Boss level Guardian Bosses the Ghost Tree had absorbed from the 90th to the 99th Divine Shrine, so they couldn't put up a fight against the Ghost Tree's attack while being burned by Flame Domain and attempting to get out of there.
This resulted in all of the spiders getting continuously struck by the Ghost Tree and receiving a lot of damage, with even the ones who hadn't been caught within Flame Domain getting beaten up while only being able to put up some resistance.
Seeing how it was losing to the intruder and its followers being easily suppressed, the Hellish Broodmother decided to get serious. A huge amount of Mana began gathering on the Legendary Guardian Boss's location as multiple Magic Arrays appeared around it upon the Realm Lord activating a Tier 5 skill, planning to destroy all of the branches attacking it and force back the Ghost Tree.
Before enough Mana could gather and the skill's activation could get completed, however, all the Mana inside the cavern suddenly froze, not responding to the Legendary monster's calls while the Magic Arrays for the Tier 5 skill shattered and dissipated.
The Hellish Broodmother's confusion was evident after its skill was forcefully canceled, and even more so after realizing that it couldn't use any of its other skills, while the other spiders in the large cavern were in the same situation. Their Movement Speed had also dropped by a significant amount all of a sudden.
Using the monsters' temporary loss in focus, Black Flame left the safety of the Ghost Tree's branches and rushed towards the injured Mythic ranked spiders. He was still in a state of Twofold Berserk at the moment and needed to make use of this time to its full extent, quickly reaching a group of Mythic monsters and launching an onslaught on them.
These spiders had already been injured by the Ghost Tree's attacks, while their Movement Speed and Attack Speed had been greatly decreased by the Aura of Time's effects and none of them could use any of their skills after Black Flame had cast Forbidden Domain.
Coupled with Black Flame's already overwhelming attributes, making short work of the several Mythic spiders near him wasn't at all difficult, Black Flame quickly dispatching all of them with his skills and moving on to the rest.
Reacting to the Swordsman's actions first, the Hellish Broodmother broke off from the Ghost Tree's attacks and dashed with its many legs towards Black Flame. But in the Realm Lord's way stood the Ghost Tree, which did not give the Hellish Broodmother a chance to get near its master.
Even if the spider had greater strength and abilities, the Ghost Tree was nine levels higher and plenty strong as well.
Furthermore, right now, the Hellish Broodmother was being suppressed by the Tier 5 Aura of Time and had its speed greatly decreased, nearly experiencing its full effects, and the Legendary spider has been Silenced by Black Flame's Forbidden Domain so it didn't have access to any of its powerful skills with which it could do a sizeable amount of damage to the Ghost Tree.
In its current state, there was no way for the Guardian Boss to get past the Ghost Tree and attack Black Flame who was thinning down on the number of Mythic and Superior Mythic ranked monsters which would normally serve as the Hellish Broodmother's backup.
Conversely, it could hardly protect itself from the Ghost Tree's barrage of attacks that were beginning to accumulate and show signs of taking away the Legendary Guardian Boss's HP a bit.
Black Flame was killing the roundup spiders left and right, the Hellish Broodmother unable to do anything to stop him as all its efforts got thwarted by the ghostly summon, leaving it helpless as both the Guardian Boss and the Ghost Tree chipped away at each other.
However, this situation didn't last for very long as Black Flame was in Twofold Berserk and would no longer be able to continue killing the Tier 4 monsters after Blade Liberation's duration ran out, causing him to fall into a Heavily Weakened state.
During his Berserk time, Black Flame rapidly used his skills and attacked the monsters in the cavern while the Ghost Tree blocked the Hellish Broodmother, preventing it from reaching him while also doing damage to the Legendary monster.
His immense power was clear by the point the Twofold Berserk ended, having wiped out nearly all the Mythic ranked monsters and a large percent of the Superior Mythic ones; the rest being left greatly injured or close to dead.
Just as he was about to fall into a Heavily Weakened state, Black Flame retreated, going back to hiding within the Ghost Tree's crown as his summon defended him from the remaining Tier 4 monsters and the Hellish Broodmother.
There was not much Black Flame could do during this time as he was no longer able to jump into the fray and fight against the monsters due to temporarily losing 80% of his attributes, but the Perfect Clone could still assist the Ghost Tree by using his skills and the Seven Luminaries Ring's Auras.
By casting Flame Domain, Black Flame could heavily injure their opponents and allow the Ghost Tree to keep both the Superior Mythic monsters and the Hellish Broodmother from recovering, as well as occasionally use Forbidden Domain whenever necessary to stop the Legendary Guardian Boss from using any very powerful skills.
Coupled with the clone's other skills and the Ghost Tree's own power, they were able to get rid of all the Mythics and some of the Superior Mythic ranked monsters, keeping the rest at half of their HP or less. For the Hellish Broodmother, that was a lot more difficult due to its enormous HP and huge natural recovery, having barely kept the gigantic spider in a losing position with a few percent missing from its HP bar.
However, the Ghost Tree hadn't gone on this long unscathed either, having received plenty of damage from the Hellish Broodmother's attacks and the skills it used during the time it wasn't Silenced by Black Flame while Forbidden Domain was on cooldown.
Even with its natural recovery, it had lost much more health than the Hellish Broodmother, albeit the tree apparition's combat power remained the same, unaffected by the damage it had received as a result of its ghostly characteristics.
But it did manage to keep Black Flame safe throughout the whole ordeal, and fortunately, Black Flame still had the Tier 4 Life Domain from the Aura of Water, which he used to heal the Ghost Tree and prevent it from getting killed by the many spiders.
This situation went on for around twenty minutes, at which point Black Flame recovered from his Heavily Weakened state. The original three hour duration of weakness following the usage of Twofold Berserk had been shortened considerably due to the current Blade Liberation being only Tier 1 and Black Flame's powerful Physique, and then the Heavily Weakened state was even further cut down by the effects of Black Flame's Savitarian Carnation Bloodline.
Hence, just twenty or so minutes was enough for the clone to return to normal after going Twofold Berserk. Though the case might not be the same if he used Threefold Berserk.
After recovering, Black Flame activated the Power of Darkness Feng had bestowed upon him and jumped back into the fight, going back to taking down the remaining Superior Mythic monsters.
Naturally, the Power of Darkness was inferior to Imperial Ascendence, not to mention when it's combined with Blade Liberation, so Black Flame's strength was nowhere near comparable to what he had previously attacked the Tier 4 spiders with.
However, he had the power to stand against even the Superior Mythic monsters, and with the powerful effects boosting him from the Tier 5 Aura of Fire, exponentially increasing Black Flame's damage and ignoring the enemies' high defense, along with the Ghost Tree's attacks on them, Black Flame was quickly decreasing whatever remained of the spiders' HP.
Before the enhanced duration of Black Flame's Power of Darkness ran out, he and the giant tree managed to wipe out all the Tier 4 spiders, leaving them to only deal with the Legendary Guardian Boss.
Defeating the Hellish Broodmother, though, would not be an easy task even with the Ghost Tree, especially when only around half of its duration remained.
Black Flame attempted to neutralize its most powerful attacks and skills with Forbidden Domain or other means while also landing some of his own hits, regardless of how little damage he was doing, gradually draining the Hellish Broodmother's HP and weakening it.
He also took full control of the Ghost Tree's attacks to maximize their combat power, allowing it to easily get past the Legendary monster's defenses despite it having high combat standards itself and land devastating blows on the red-haired spider.
The Guardian Boss found itself powerless, neither being able to avoid nor properly block the hundreds of branches coming at it from all sides, much less the powerful Tier 4 skills launched by the Ghost Tree under Black Flame's control, while any of its regular attacks did minimal damage to the transparent plant, which it recovered from quickly.
Whenever it attempted to use its skills, the Hellish Broodmother always felt its Mana freeze, unable to finish activating any of its abilities and stopping the Legendary spider from showing its true power.
Leaving the Hellish Broodmother unable to properly fight back or do heavy damage to the Ghost Tree, Black Flame continued bombarding the Realm Lord with attacks, steadily draining its HP.
After some time of the repetitive battle in which Black Flame could only hide within the Ghost Tree's protection, the Hellish Broodmother's HP finally dropped down to 30%.
The moment its HP bar fell to less than a third, all of the Legendary monster's red hairs turned pitch-black, while its body transformed, becoming a miniature spider the size of a man's fist with a grotesque white body.
Black Flame had anticipated the Hellish Broodmother would turn Berserk after its HP got to 30%, so he immediately jumped off the Ghost Tree's layer of branches which had formed a shield around him, intending on falling to the ground.
As his feet rose from the transparent branches, though, the Perfect Clone spotted a snowy figure in the place where he had just been standing.
Focusing on it, Black Flame's eyes widened, not having even noticed when the Hellish Broodmother had climbed up the Ghost Tree and arrived next to him. Had Black Flame not jumped off the moment he saw the Legendary Realm Lord begin to go Berserk, he would have definitely gotten bitten and instantly killed by the Guardian Boss.
He wasn't in a situation where he could relax however as the dozens of small eyes covering the white spider's face looked at Black Flame with intense murderous intent, causing cold sweat to cover the clone's back.
Since he didn't manage to notice when the Hellish Broodmother had reached him, Black Flame wasn't sure if it had teleported to him, or if it was simply that fast that neither he nor the Ghost Tree could keep up with it.
If it was the latter, then Black Flame was in grave danger.
Absolute Domain!
Divine Steps!
Activating Divine Steps, Black Flame instantly switched places with one of the doppelgangers that had appeared on the ground. Simultaneously, from below, the Perfect Clone saw a white light pass through the impervious doppelganger which had just replaced him.
Needless to say, the Hellish Broodmother had tried pouncing on him, and had Black Flame not been fast enough, the Legendary spider would have torn a hole through his chest.
Apparently no longer obeying gravity, the Hellish Broodmother stopped in midair despite the force it had pushed itself off the Ghost Tree with being enough to embed it into the cavern's wall, before moving towards Black Flame at the speed of a descending lightning bolt.
Sensing the approaching danger, Black Flame switched places with another doppelganger that was far away from his current location.
But just as he appeared in the new position, before the clone could even check his surroundings and the Legendary Guardian Boss's movements, Black Flame felt an immensely powerful force strike him from behind, sending the Swordsman flying.
At an incredible speed, Black Flame flew towards a wall, only then having realized that he had been attacked, but just as he got a grasp of the situation and was about to switch places with another doppelganger before he hit the wall, a white light crashed into the Perfect Clone from the side, forcing Black Flame to fly in another direction.
Compared to the current Hellish Broodmother with its small size and otherworldly speed, the previous large Legendary monster was no different from a turtle, moving too fast for Black Flame to even perceive.
In truth, Black Flame's senses did warn him of the incoming attack on both occasions, and his instincts attempted to move his body to evade. However, it didn't matter how good or perceptive his senses were or if a Half-step Beyond Domain Realm expert like him could dodge attacks without commanding his body.
An attack faster than the speed his thoughts could formulate and that at which his body's muscles could move would still hit Black Flame.
While in a Berserk state, the Hellish Broodmother was too fast for Black Flame to react to, and it kept landing blows on his suspended body, continuously bouncing him around the cavern before he could land on the ground.
Even when he switched places with the doppelgangers from Divine Steps, the Legendary monster would reach him faster than Black Flame could do anything. Thankfully, Black Flame had activated Absolute Domain upon realizing the potential danger posed by the Berserk Legendary Guardian Boss, which kept him safe from its attacks.
At Tier 5, Absolute Domain was not something a mere Legendary monster should think of breaking through regardless of their strength, and even a Tier 6 God would need some time in order to overwhelm the Invincibility Skill and do damage to Black Flame, so there was no chance of the Hellish Broodmother harming him during its duration.
Nonetheless, this safety was only temporary, and if Black Flame did not figure out how to get out of this situation before Absolute Domain ended, he'd instantly get killed by the monstrously quick spider.
Seeing its master get thrown around by the small monster, the Ghost Tree acted, activating a skill and moving its hundreds of branches to block the Hellish Broodmother's advance and protect Black Flame. But when the many ghostly branches appeared in the Legendary Realm Lord's way, they were all instantly cut apart.
Despite its spiritual form and near invincibility to physical attacks, the Ghost Tree was easily injured by the Berserk spider, large damages appeared above it. With it now being able to do serious damage to the Ghost Tree and harm it even without skills, the Hellish Broodmother had the capability to kill the Ghost Tree during its Berserk state, and it could do so very quickly now since Black Flame couldn't switch to another of the Seven Luminaries Rings Auras for around thirty seconds after switching to the Aura of Earth and activating Absolute Domain.
Fully comprehending the danger he was in, Black Flame's mind raced as he tried to think of how to get out of this situation.
The Legendary Realm Lord continued to bounce Black Flame around like a ragdoll, growing more frustrated with each passing second as it realized that the intruder was not dying from its attacks even when it used Tier 5 skills, but the Hellish Broodmother did not pause in its assault.
Hitting the human from above again, the Hellish Broodmother launched Black Flame towards the ground and prepared to begin another volley of attacks. When the Swordman reached the ground, however, instead of heavily crashing into the stone floor or bouncing off it, Black Flame passed through the ground without disturbing it at all.
Confusion stirring in the spider's mind, the Hellish Broodmother stopped in place after seeing the human it had been attacking until now simply disappear. After standing still for a few seconds, the Legendary Guardian Boss released a deafening screech of pure rage.
It then jumped to the spot where Black Flame had passed through the ground and struck out with its leg, causing a small ravine to form in the sturdy earth from the strike. Black Flame was nowhere to be seen though.
Dozens of meters below the surface, Black Flame was moving through the earth like a fish in water, his body not affected by physics as the clone moved around through the solid environment. The Ghost Tree followed after him, going below the ground as well, escaping the claws of the raging Legendary monster.
Under the effects of Ethereality, Black Flame entered a spiritual form akin to a ghost, allowing him to freely move through walls and the ground.
Since he could not face the Hellish Broodmother in a fight or defend himself against its immeasurably fast attacks, unable to neither avoid them nor run away, nor even react to the extreme speed the Berserk Legendary monster was moving at, Black Flame's only option was to escape somewhere the Hellish Broodmother could not follow him.
Moving to the void using Void Walk would have achieved this as well, but Black Flame was only a Tier 1 player with a powerful Physique and attributes, so he'd only be able to remain in the void for a short amount of time lest the clone be at risk of losing his life.
Thus, Black Flame could only go underground using Ethereality in order to escape the Hellish Broodmother while it was Berserk.
The Legendary spider furiously pounded the ground and carved huge holes in the earth, trying to create a path to Black Flame who was deep below the surface and the rampanging Realm Lord which could still sense his presence while the Perfect Clone was within its territory.
He had moved far too deep for the Hellish Broodmother to reach him, going all the way down to the barrier of the Divine Shrine, and ordered the Ghost Tree, which had followed after him under Black Flame's command, to create a spacious area by destroying a part of the earth in which Black Flame could stand even without Ethereality.
Two minutes was the duration of Wraithwood Sigil's skill that gave him an incorporeal form.
Black Flame didn't know how long the Hellish Broodmother's Berserk Skill would last, so he had to prepare for the situation that it would outlast Ethereality, otherwise he'd have to go back to the surface and return to the previous situation; only he won't have Absolute Domain to save his ass.
Now he could just sit here even after Ethereality ends and wait out the Legendary Guardian Boss's Berserk state, at which point the spider would fall into a weakened state.
Half a minute later, the center of the 100th Divine Shrine was unrecognizable, having turned into a torn-apart land as if an earthquake had run through here. The Hellish Broodmother had dug down quite a large bit and lowered the original surface level, but it was still nowhere near low enough to reach Black Flame.
Pausing, the small spider seemed to be taking a breath while thinking of what to do, knowing that it would be in trouble if it could not kill the intruder before it returned to normal. Suddenly, however, a pillar of flames rose from below the Guardian Boss, enveloping the Hellish Broodmother in fire.
Following a painful screech, the Legendary Realm Lord rushed out of Flame Domain's range, its snow-white body having nearly turned scorched. But the Hellish Broodmother was not given a break, and just as it stepped outside the towering flames, a transparent branch emerged from the ground and struck it back towards the flaming area.
The hit from the Ghost Tree's branch, which would have previously only slightly damaged the Legendary monster, actually sent the fist-sized spider flying.
Although its speed had increased by several times to an astonishing amount after going Berserk, and the Hellish Broodmother's Strength had risen significantly as well, the Legendary Guardian Boss's defense had dropped by a huge amount; and with its size, the damage it received was much higher than before.
Just getting caught with the Tier 5 Flame Domain for a few seconds had done grievous damage to the spider, taking away all the HP it had recovered while Black Flame was hiding, and then some, while the Ghost Tree's attack further damaged it and forced the Hellish Broodmother back into Flame Domain.
Black Flame had naturally known that big of a power boost from going Berserk did not come without some form of drawback, and he had formed a guess after taking into consideration the Hellish Broodmother's change in size, suspecting the Realm Lord's defense was no longer as strong as before.
Hence, he had commanded the Ghost Tree to return up near the surface, using it to observe the Hellish Broodmother's actions and appropriately casting Flame Domain at the right time, along with having the Ghost Tree attack as well to keep the Legendary spider inside of the skill's radius.
It worked out perfectly, the Hellish Broodmother receiving another dose of Flame Domain that caused huge amounts of damage to it, but it only worked once, as when the Guardian Boss ran out of the pillar of flames and the Ghost Tree attempted to strike it backwards again, the small spider reacted in time, cutting apart any of the ghostly branches that came near it from below.
The Ghost Tree didn't let up, continuing to attack the Legendary monster in order to prevent it from recovering much HP during its Berserk state when it and Black Flame could not fight the Realm Lord properly.
Dodging the annoying attacks, the Hellish Broodmother did damage to the Ghost Tree as well and attempted to dig down towards its body, carving up the ground once more, but the specter moved through the earth freely, unobstructed by physical mass.
Around three minutes later, Black Flame, looking through the Ghost Tree's senses, noticed that the Legendary Guardian Boss was getting more desperate and ferocious as it destroyed the environment in an attempt to reach his body that was deep down below it, as if it was panicking.
Seeing its hysterical behavior, the Perfect Clone guessed that the Legendary spider's Berserk state would soon end, and decided it was the perfect time to strike, so he commanded the Ghost Tree to come back down and bring him to the surface since Ethereality's duration had already run out and he could no longer move through the ground.
With a small disturbance in the ground, Black Flame jumped out onto the surface a bit later following the Ghost Tree creating a path for him, coming face to face with the Berserk Hellish Broodmother once again.
Filled with renewed vigor after seeing Black Flame appear, the fist-sized spider rushed towards him, instantly appearing in front of the clone and biting down on his skull. However, the Legendary monster's fangs failed to pierce Black Flame's skin.
Although surprised by the outcome, the Hellish Broodmother did not stop attacking, sending lightning-fast strikes at Black Flame, all of which landed. But the Swordsman received no damage from the attacks, and he didn't even seem affected by the powerful blows, unlike before when he was getting bounced around by the spider even though Absolute Domain kept him safe.
Starting to suspect that its strength had disappeared for some reason, the Legendary Guardian Boss switched to using skills, not having the time to contemplate or hold back due to its soon-ending Berserk state, and used one of its most powerful Tier 5 skills.
However, upon the attack landing on Black Flame, it seemed to completely disappear, doing nothing to the clone. A screech of frustration sounded from the Hellish Broodmother, its attempts on Black Flame's life intensifying.
For nearly thirty seconds, the Legendary monster continued attacking the Perfect Clone, using anything from regular attacks to Tier 4 and Tier 5 skills, but nothing seemed to affect Black Flame, all of it failing to harm him.
The Hellish Broodmother was no longer able to keep going at that point, its Berserk state about to end, which would result in it returning to normal and becoming weakened, causing a faint smile to appear on Black Flame's cold and indifferent face upon noticing the spider's situation.
Catching the Guardian Boss off guard after it paused, Black Flame slashed at the snow-white spider, golden scales appearing on his skin as the Perfect Clone's aura skyrocketed, while a silver light shined from the Pandemonium Lashblade, immeasurable power erupting from the Demon Swords when it struck the Hellish Broodmother.
Divine Providence!
Heavenly Dragon's Power!
Blade Liberation!
Moonchaser!
Gloomsong Gale, release!
With a loud boom, the Legendary spider was sent flying at a fast speed, crashing into the wall while blood poured from the miniature Hellish Broodmother.
Even though Black Flame couldn't do much damage to the Hellish Broodmother while hiding underground, thanks to some of his skills like Flame Domain and the Ghost Tree, he had managed to keep the Legendary Guardian Boss from recovering too much, keeping its HP at around 45% during this time.
Now striking the spider when it was at its weakest with the defense it possessed while Berserk being very low, Black Flame held nothing back as he went Twofold Berserk, the Tier 1 Blade Liberation's cooldown having been drastically shortened by the Tier 5 Aura of Time to the point Black Flame could use it again within less than an hour, and shot out an attack using his strongest skill boosted by the Swordsmanship Great Grandmaster Title as well as releasing all the power absorbed by Gloomsong Gale; which the clone had activated the moment he resurfaced from the ground.
All the powerful blows from the Hellish Broodmother and the multiple Tier 5 skills it had thrown at Black Flame within that half of a minute ended up getting returned to the spider in one mighty strike that concentrated all that power into one slash.
This resulted in an enormous damage appearing above the Realm Lord's head as it was sent flying like a cannonball, the blow it had received gravely injuring the Hellish Broodmother as its HP dropped to only around 10%, while it wasn't able to maintain its Berserk state, going back to being a giant purple spider in the next moment. Furthermore, the Guardian Boss had entered a Weakened state.
Without even having time to stand up, the Hellish Broodmother sensed many points of danger coming at it from above, looking up to see a rain of light-like fire arrows that were all aimed towards it as they fell.
In its current state, dodging the hundreds of quickly incoming flaming beams would be impossible, and the scorching Dragon Fire the rain was made of was guaranteed to do a lot of damage to the weakened Legendary spider.
Additionally, the Ghost Tree had emerged nearby from below, immediately attacking with some of its strongest remaining skills in order to finish off the Guardian Boss. Dozens of ghost spiders suddenly started rising from the ground, their powerful auras assaulting the Hellish Broodmother as they pounced on their former leader, while the Ghost Tree's many branches turned into chainsaws that roared as they cut towards the Legendary monster from all sides.
Black Flame wasn't standing still either, rushing at the Hellish Broodmother while slashing in its direction from a distance, sending a sea of thunderbolts through the air towards it.
Forbidden Domain!
Dragon Dive!
Tier 4 Taboo Skill, Grieving Wallows!
Tier 4 Taboo Skill, Trees' Vengeance!
Thundering Flash!
Looking at the approaching attacks helplessly, the Legendary Guardian Boss could do nothing in its current situation, unable to defend itself or avoid the incoming danger as the spider sensed the Mana inside it freeze and its skills become unavailable too.
A moment later, the rain of fire fell upon the Hellish Broodmother, the ghost spiders' attacks landed on it, the chainsaw branches cut up its legs, and the lightning devoured the purple spider.
When the dust settled, the Guardian Boss was left legless and with less than 1% of its HP left, ending up on the verge of death. The attacks would normally be enough to finish off the Hellish Broodmother, but the Ghost Tree had held back under Black Flame's control, leaving it near dead and unable to fight back anymore.
Its hundreds of branches then wrapped around the Legendary monster after returning to their normal shape, before piercing the spider's flesh, causing it to screech out in pain. The Ghost Tree then began absorbing the Hellish Broodmother's life force.
While waiting for it to finish absorbing the Legendary creature, Black Flame went over to the altar that had been mostly ruined by now during the Realm Lord's rampage and picked up the Gold Legacy Tablet.
Feng had already collected all the Legacy Tablets for the original Devil's Parade Combat Technique that appeared on the early Divine Shrines, so he wanted to see what he'd get this time for the Secret Technique Tablet that appeared in the 100th Divine Shrine, and whether it would be superior.
Inspecting the golden tablet, Black Flame discovered it was a Legacy Tablet for a Gold Defensive Combat Technique. It wasn't exactly bad, but Body Combat Techniques were much more valuable than other types, especially among the higher ranks, so getting this one was a bit of a letdown.
Nevertheless, Black Flame intended to leave it in the Guild Warehouse for Zero Wing's restored members to study and learn from once they're strong enough.
Shortly after Black Flame stored the golden Legacy Tablet, the Ghost Tree finished consuming the Hellish Broodmother's life force. Suddenly, the tree shook, its trunk beginning to expand as its over a thousand branches grew thicker and longer, along with several thousand more extending from its body.
The aura around the Ghost Tree grew immeasurably more intense, shaking the space of the 100th Divine Shrine.
After over a dozen seconds of growing much larger and reaching a height of nearly a thousand meters, the Ghost Tree finally settled, its aura steadying. Having absorbed so many powerful Superior Mythic monsters and a Legendary Realm Lord, the Ghost Tree had finally evolved into a Legendary ranked creature.
Naturally, this was the development Black Flame had been hoping for, as having a Level 109 Legendary monster under his belt had increased his combat power by severalfold, and his plans had a much higher chance of succeeding now that the Ghost Tree had reached Tier 5.
As Black Flame was admiring the new Ghost Tree and checking its stats, a golden light suddenly descended on the Perfect Clone.
All of the stress on his body was instantly relieved, while Black Flame's Stamina and expended Concentration recovered completely.
System: Congratulations! You have exceeded your own limits and achieved a feat acknowledged by the Gods. Rewarding five Exploits.
Beating a Superior Mythic monster on the Divine Staircase while at Tier 1 rewarded the player with three Exploits, yet killing a Legendary one like the Hellish Broodmother had earned Black Flame five. The reward had directly jumped by two Exploits due to the enormous difficulty, as it wasn't something any creature should be capable of accomplishing.
Black Flame then went through the loot dropped by the Hellish Broodmother. As a Level 100 Legendary ranked Realm Lord, its drops were extraordinary, surpassing what the Guardian Boss of the 99th Divine Shrine had dropped by leaps and bounds.
Apart from dropping multiple pieces of Fragmented Legendary equipment and a Fragmented Legendary Weapon, the Hellish Broodmother had left behind many high-ranking materials, including Legendary ranked ones and even two God Crystals, along with over a thousand Mana Barrier Crystal Fragments, some Designs, Recipes, and the Design Fragment for another of the Divine Staircase's Advanced Forging Designs that appear on later Divine Shrines. Black Flame had even gained a Tier 5 soul.
After collecting all the items and appraising them, Black Flame went over to the Teleportation Array and left the 100th Divine Shrine. Upon appearing on the path leading higher up the Divine Staircase, system notifications rang in Black Flame's ear.
System: Congratulations! You have passed the Divine Shrine. Rewarding 300,000 Shrine Points.
System: Congratulations! You have passed the Divine Shrine within the time limit. Rewarding 300,000 Shrine Points.
System: Congratulations! You have killed the Guardian Boss within the time limit. Rewarding 2,000,000 Shrine Points.
System: Congratulations! You have passed the 100th Divine Shrine. Player has been upgraded to an Advanced Member of the Divine Trial.
The amount of Shrine Points one received upon clearing higher Divine Shrines was worlds beyond what the lower ones gave, and players who reached this level would be able to afford many more things in the Divine Hall, along with the items on the Advanced Menu.
However, this was only the case at the moment, as the more players came to the World Summit, the greater their strength, and the higher they reached on the Divine Staircase, the more Shrine Points it would cost to exchange for any of the items at the Divine Hall.
This way, players would have to continuously grow stronger in order to afford the things they want, and by the time players could clear the 100th Divine Shrine, the price of all the very valuable items like Bloodlines would have increased by over a hundred times.
Feng, Black Flame, and the Zero Wing members had reached here early ahead of all the other players in God's Domain, so they could utilize their impressive strength to climb high on the Divine Staircase and purchase all the precious and expensive items before their price skyrocketed.
Though, even now, the Shrine Points required to buy many of the items at the Divine Hall had increased greatly due to their presence and achievements, so the Demon Players that would soon arrive will have an even harder time exchanging for the items they want.
Having passed the 100th Divine Shrine, Black Flame chose to once again return to the bottom of the Divine Staircase and restart his climb.
Although he had succeeded in upgrading the Ghost Tree into a Legendary monster and had the ability to go higher and pass the next Divine Shrines, the Ghost Tree skill's duration had already ended soon after it had reached Tier 5; the fight against the Hellish Broodmother having taken far too long.
Without the Ghost Tree, Black Flame would have no chance at even getting past the Hellish Broodmother alive, let alone Guardian Bosses stronger than that spider, so he had to wait for the twenty-four-hour cooldown to end first before he could make an attempt at passing the 101st Divine Shrine.
He was also in a Heavily Weakened state at the moment, so Black Flame decided to start going back through the Divine Staircase and get more items, Shrine Points, Blood Energy, and Superior Mythic ranked souls while biding his time.
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In the meantime, while Black Flame was climbing the Divine Staircase and killing Guardian Bosses, Feng has been reconstructing Stone Forest Town, soon finishing the job within a day of relieving the clone from that duty.
He had already finished the basics for the Town, creating a large number of Hotels and places for players to rest, eat, fix up their equipment, and everything else they needed, having plenty of space for many accommodations within the Advanced Town, along with a Battle Arena and Zero Wing's massive Guild Residence.
Compared to Zero Wing's Guild Residence in White River City, the Guild Residence in Stone Forest Town was much larger and more extravagant.
While Zero Wing's Residence in White River City could only accommodate up to one hundred thousand people at one time, the newly constructed Guild Residence in Stone Forest Town could accommodate a few hundred thousand players as well as have room for other guild facilities. Moreover, as Zero Wing was a 3-star Guild, there were plenty of 3-star Private Rooms in the new Residence. In comparison, White River City's Guild Residence did not even have enough Private Rooms for the Guild's core members.
Most importantly, Feng had already begun construction on some Advanced buildings whose Designs the restored members had acquired beforehand. He had also begun working on constructing five Magic Towers within Stone Forest Town; the precious Designs for the towers having been obtained by Feng when he opened the Epic Treasure Chest while having Luck in the six digits, having gained multiple of them, along with Burning Wing Legion members finding more from other places.
Though, he was only one man, and Feng could not do everything himself, so he had Melancholic send over all the Candlelight members with the Architect Subclass, leaving the work to them.
To begin with, building the Advanced Constructions was beyond a player like him and he needed Architects to get the job done, but the number of players who choose to invest into the Architecture Subclass was very low so there weren't many restored Architect players, Feng having only a few at his disposal, which made big and difficult constructions a bit of a hassle to make.
Still, it would only take some more time for the restored members to finish the Advanced Constructions with the assistance of the regular Candlelight Architects, while Feng had them prioritize finishing the Magic Towers.
Feng had already done everything he could to speed up the process by creating the Magic Arrays necessary for the Magic Towers, and only the remaining parts which he could not do were left, so he urged the Architects to get those done as soon as possible due to the value Magic Towers had to a Town, especially when it came to the Battle Arena.
The Battle Arena was a place where players could fight against each other.
Due to the Magic Towers, the Mana density in the entire Town would increase exponentially.
This situation would be of great assistance to players, just like in the Trial Tower of the Divine Colosseum. Under the effects of Stone Forest Town's environment, players could maintain a very clear state of mind. Fighting under such a state would be of great help in improving their strength.
However, inside a player-constructed Town, PvP was prohibited. The only place players could fight against each other in a Town was at a Battle Arena.
When the time came, the players residing in Stone Forest Town would definitely head to the Battle Arena to improve themselves through PvP. At that time, the money Zero Wing could earn through the Battle Arena would no doubt far surpass the income they could make from any of the other constructions.
Seeing that there was nothing more he could do at Stone Forest Town, Feng left the remaining work to the Architect Lifestyle Players and returned to Zero Wing's Guild Residence in White River City after opening Stone Forest Town to the public.
News of Stone Forest Town's opening soon reached the ears of all the players in the Star-Moon Kingdom, and they all rushed to the Advanced Town to see what the Star-Moon Kingdom's number one Guild's Town is like, as well as start exploring the Stoneclaw Mountains for Magic Crystals.
Meanwhile, after meeting up with Ruoxi, who had already finished her Class Change Quest and became a Witch, and any other restored Zero Wing members who hadn't been there when the first and second batch of core members went to the World Summit, Feng used the Manager Token to open a Gate of Darkness and once again traveled to the Dark Den.
Since he has more players coming with him this time, Feng could undergo a Party Test when entering the World Summit, so he'll have enough minutes to climb higher up the mountain and visit Inferior Legendary and Legendary Shrines.
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