First Batch

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"Now that everyone is here, I'll be bestowing you with the Power of Darkness," Feng stated the reason for having Aqua call in all the restored members "Afterwards, aside from the Main Force members and those with special jobs and obligations, all of the current and future Zero Wing members who have had their memories from the previous timeline restored will be a part of the Burning Wing Legion."

Feng had been considering on the matter of having all of the restored members spread about without any proper categorization and decided to form a Legion of them for the purpose of more convenient management and deployment of the restored members.

The Burning Wing was a name he thought of, which only the members who have memories of the previous timeline could understand the meaning of.

His intention and meaning were conveyed and understood by most of the members present, so he went on to give all of them a Source of Darkness, resulting in them receiving the Power of Darkness Berserk Skill.

Feng couldn't be bothered with organizing the Legion or anything relating to such work, so he left everything to Aqua to handle after he gives them all, and the unrestored members who will be a part of the Dark Gods Legion, the Power of Darkness; including which unrestored members will make the cut and distributing resources like the Hundred Berry Wine and Magic Crystals for training in the Divine Coliseum.

"All of you should do your best to prepare after this meeting as I'll be sending some of you to the World Summit once the meeting is over. The Main Force members and those with the highest number of Guild Contribution points will be the first to go immediately after this, while the following groups will be decided later." Some reactions were finally seen on the members' faces upon hearing Feng's announcement.

There was no one here who didn't know about the World Summit and what kind of opportunities it was possible to obtain there.

A chance to go there was something all of them have been hoping for during this time, knowing that a trip to the World Summit could substantially increase their chances of accomplishing their goals.

Hearing that Feng was planning on sending them there soon was great news, and the restored members were naturally ecstatic to receive such an opportunity.

They also wished to be the first to arrive since the earlier one manages to get to the World Summit ahead of others, the greater benefits they could reap.

The Gate of Darkness which Feng planned on summoning using the Manager Token that he had received from Serena did not place a limit on headcount. It merely had a time limit of twenty minutes, which, considering their current speed and the time needed to travel through the gate, was enough to let around 500 players pass through the gate.

So, unfortunately for the core members, only the Main Force members have a guaranteed spot on the first batch of players to be sent over by Feng, while the rest will have a chance depending on their strength and contribution to the guild.

"Secondly, considering all of the valuable items in the World Summit, we, and by we I mean someone other than me, will be making a list of things that shall be posted in the private Guild Chat for the Burning Wing Legion.

"Whenever you get an item from the list, whether it be something from one of the Shrines or an exchange offer in the Divine Hall, cross it out so others don't waste their time on trying to get it as well.

"Once you obtain something and cross it out from the list, it's yours to do as you please. Naturally, though, claiming an item from the list and removing it before actually obtaining it is strictly forbidden.

"Any item acquired from the World Summit can be exchanged with the Guild for Contribution Points if you don't need or plan on using it," Feng gave the restored members a basic rundown on the way this was going to happen and the rules "Attacking others or fighting each other similarly isn't allowed. Focus on whatever it is you want to get and use your strength to obtain it, but if it's not really necessarily or all that important to you, leave the resources for others to compete over. Speaking of which, Aqua, Ruoxi, these are for you."

Taking out two Magic Crystal Bottles, one with a dark-blue liquid in it and one with a seemingly transparent fluid that had a mystic glow around it, Feng handed the aqua one to the blue-haired Vice Guild Leader seated next to him and tossed the latter bottle to Throughout Rain, aka Zhao Ruoxi, a few seats from him.

The moment those two bottles were retrieved from Feng's Spatial Bag, all of the Zero Wing members present, except for Fire, felt a strong urge to consume the liquids contained within them.

It didn't take much effort from the restored members to figure out that the things which Feng had just taken out were Bloodlines, and watching Aqua and Ruoxi hold the two treasures, which they could tell were Peak rank by the aura around them, envy appeared in many of the members' gazes.

Bloodlines were incredibly rare and valuable items for increasing a player's combat power by leaps and bounds. Most of them would be thrilled to obtain even a Basic Bloodline, let alone a Peak Bloodline.

With such a powerful boost to their capabilities, Aqua and Ruoxi were sure to have a much easier time at the World Summit and obtain many more benefits.

The most surprising fact was Feng brazenly giving away the two Peak Bloodlines for all to see, which he'd normally do privately unless it was a reward for something or if the item was won through a Guild Auction, yet now Feng was publicly showing favoritism towards the two girls.

It would still be understandable if Feng gave a Bloodline to just Aqua since she was the Vice Guild Leader and one of the guild's strongest players, but his actions painted a different picture when he gives Ruoxi a Peak Bloodline as well.

Their relationship between Feng and the four girls wasn't exactly a secret, but they normally wouldn't flaunt it in public for all to see.

In this situation, however, it almost felt like Feng was showing off.

"The Guild Leader really is amazing, going as far as giving his partners a Peak Bloodline. I wish I had a man like that myself." Seeing the two of them receive Peak Bloodlines in such a display and feeling a pang of jealousy, Su Qianliu spoke in a suggestive tone while casting a side-eyed glance at Flying Shadow, who was sitting beside her.

"Qianliu you can't compare me to the Guild Leader. He's a monster in a league of his own. Peak Bloodlines are not something that could be obtained at this stage of the game by anyone else." Aware of the meaning behind Su Qianliu's words, Flying immediately defended himself.

"Excuses." Qianliu coldly retorted upon hearing Flying Shadow justify his lack of abilities compared to Feng, feeling bitter over him being completely right on the fact that no one could measure up to Feng.

Watching this from the side, the other Zero Wing members only shook their heads at the sight of them bickering without a care for who was paying attention or overhearing to their private conversation.

Ever since Feng stopped being so obsessively focused on work and started having a relationship with Fire and the other three, not trying to conceal the matter, other Zero Wing members began being much more relaxed as well as a result.

People who would previously either restrain themselves for work or hid their relationship to avoid complications now freely pursued whatever and whoever they wanted without worry, causing many romances to blossom between the Zero Wing members, both restored and unrestored.

Flying Shadow and Su Qianliu were one of such couples.

During the previous timeline, it wasn't much of a secret that they liked each other and wanted to date, but work always got in the way, and either the time for romance wasn't right or there wasn't a good opportunity. As a result, the two of them resorted to just basic intimacy to satisfy their desires without ever properly connecting on a personal level or enjoying themselves.

Now, however, there was nothing holding them back anymore, allowing Flying and Qianliu, along with anyone else who wished, to do whatever they wanted and openly date without any concerns.

Following Feng's change, many new relationships, both sexual and of other kinds, had formed between the members.

Nevertheless, even the girls that had boyfriends felt envious over Aqua and Ruoxi getting a Peak Bloodline each from Feng, not to mention the others.

The only two female players who didn't seem to care about it were Fire and Violet. After all, Fire already had an incredibly powerful Bloodline that could even surpass most Peak Bloodlines for herself, while Violet was unbothered by being the only among the four of them to not have a Bloodline, even though Feng had given one to Aqua and Ruoxi.

She knew that Feng wouldn't leave her out and guessed that he simply hadn't been able to get one for her at the moment, but would later when the opportunity arose, which Feng reassured her of through a private message since he planned on having Black Flame go up the Divine Staircase and obtain an Advanced Membership so that he could purchase two more powerful Peak Bloodlines.

"Main Force members and those chosen for the first batch, finish whatever else you need to within an hour and I'll send you all to the World Summit. As for the rest of you core members, prepare yourselves. The next batch of players will be teleported as well in 48 hours." Feng dismissed the meeting and allowed everyone to go on with their business to complete any remaining preparations before he sends them to the World Summit.

With the meeting concluded, the Zero Wing members split up to do anything they needed to and get everything set, while Feng himself went on to give the Power of Darkness to the remaining restored members who were to become a part of the Burning Wing Legion, before going to the place where the elite members were gathered.

Awe and admiration appeared on the faces of the 300 unrestored members of Zero Wing who've been selected and called here for the Dark Gods Legion when they saw Feng, disguised as Black Flame, walk into the room.

Nobody in the Star-Moon Kingdom did not know of One-hit Asura, the publicly acknowledged number one expert of God's Domain.

The reputation of Zero Wing's Guild Leader has already become akin to a myth among the regular players and members, with only some of the elite members here having witnessed Black Flame's legendary rise in God's Domain when they were still core members or part of the Main Force; before being replaced by the mysterious experts that kept appearing and those members who underwent Zero Wing's Special Training.

Now Black Flame was an existence to be feared by all across God's Domain, with even Super Guilds treating him and Zero Wing with great respect.

None of these elite members managed to stay calm in Feng's presence, nervousness deep in their eyes the entire time up until he announced the reason for their summons, at which point only excitement remained in the members after learning they'll indeed be formed into a Legion of elite members that received much more training and resources than the other elite members.

"Let me start by saying this. Although you are all official members of the Dark Gods Legion and enjoy significant benefits, the Legion operates on an elimination system. There are 700 reserve members waiting for a chance to take your place. If your strength is found lacking, a reserve member will replace you," Feng said in a somber tone. "Starting today, each of you will receive fifty Magic Crystals daily to challenge the Trial Tower. I will rank you based on your battle records. At the end of each week, I will compare the last thirty official members with the top thirty reserve members. The winners will remain official members, while the losers will be demoted to the reserve team."

Everyone could not help but gasp.

The competition was incredibly intense. Up to thirty people might switch out each week. However, everyone was also shocked at Zero Wing's generosity.

The Dark Gods Legion had 300 members in all. If every member could spend fifty Magic Crystals a day, that meant that Zero Wing would expend a total of 15,000 crystals—or 12,000 Gold—daily. This outlay was simply inconceivable.

Most likely, no other Guild in God's Domain could afford such an expenditure other than Zero Wing.

Of course, even if someone did have that much money, it would be impossible to purchase even 10% of that amount of Magic Crystals. Currently, the various large Guilds were treating Magic Crystals like strategic resources. They would not sell any of their Magic Crystals at all. One could only purchase a small amount from independent players.

Feng then had all the members of the newly formed Dark Gods Legion make a trip to the Divine Coliseum after giving them a bunch of Magic Crystals, allowing them to go as many times a day as they wanted, along with the Power of Darkness and a bottle of Hundred Berry Wine, telling them to consume the alcohol when they reached their limit inside the Trial Tower.

After Feng distributed the Magic Crystals and concluded the meeting, everyone promptly rushed out of the hall and ran as fast as they could towards the Trial Tower.

Upon their leave, Feng left the Guild Residence as well and headed to the Candlelight Trading Firm.

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The scene of three hundred Zero Wing members rushing into the Trial Tower stupefied the players inside the main hall of the Divine Coliseum.

"How rich is Zero Wing? They're actually sending so many people to the Trial Tower all at once."

"They should be members of the newly-formed Dark Gods Legion. I heard that the benefits they receive are only beneath what Zero Wing's main force enjoys."

"Being a Guild's core member must be great. They get to enter the Trial Tower every day. On the other hand, independent players like us can only enter once in a long while."

"I know, right? Magic Crystals' drop rate is simply too low in Party Dungeons. It's only higher in Team Dungeons."

"As expected of the number one Guild of White River City. Heaven's Burial only sends 50 members. On the other hand, Zero Wing is sending 300 people in one go. Moreover, they are only members of the Dark Gods Legion."

Everyone was incredibly jealous. Only the members of large Guilds had access to such a large supply of Magic Crystals each day. Independent players had to struggle just to obtain a single crystal. As for small Guilds, although they could also afford to supply their members with Magic Crystals, they could not afford to offer a large amount every day.

One could gauge a Guild's financial strength in White River City by the number of members that entered the Trial Tower.

However, the situation at White River City's Divine Colosseum had reached a boiling point.

More experts from Heaven's Burial suddenly broke through the fourth floor of the Trial Tower. Currently, the Guild had a total of 41 members who had reached the fifth floor, double that of their previous record and nearly surpassing Zero Wing's previous record of 43 people.

"Although another person from Zero Wing has passed through the fourth floor, Heaven's Burial is superior. Another 20 of their people have passed the fourth floor within the same timespan. It really makes you wonder just how they have nurtured so many experts."

"It seems that Heaven's Burial has a chance of replacing Zero Wing as White River City's overlord."

Due to the increase in each Guild's number of experts in the Divine Colosseum, many players had begun changing their opinions of Heaven's Burial.

Although one could not tell much by the number of experts, it could indicate a Guild's potential.

In the God's Domain of today, due to Feng repeatedly shattering the concept of strength by numbers, the public no longer evaluated a Guild based on how many members it possessed.

Then, how could one judge a Guild's strength?

The first method was by examining the Guild's raid progression of large-scale Team Dungeons. This was the best way to judge the comprehensive strength of a Guild.

The second method was by reviewing the number of experts a Guild possessed. At present, passing the fourth floor was the commonly accepted standard for an expert.

Very quickly, this matter attracted the attention of the various large Guilds in White River City.

Originally, Zero Wing had been White River City's sole ruler. Now, however, it would seem that another ruler would sit on the city's throne. Heaven's Burial, in particular, was very mysterious. The Guild developed as fast as Zero Wing had in the past. Even the famous Ghost Shadow Workshop had joined Heaven's Burial. One could just imagine how powerful the Guild's backing was.

Previously, Zero Wing had relied mostly on Black Flame to shoulder its success. Now, however, Heaven's Burial's potential was even greater than Zero Wing's.

For a time, many players were tempted to take part in Heaven's Burial's entrance examination.

Heaven's Burial was constantly recruiting Guild members. Moreover, its entry requirements were a lot lower than Zero Wing's. If they joined Heaven's Burial now, by the time the Guild grew into its power and became White River City's overlord, their statuses would rise with the tide. It was just like the Zero Wing of today. Currently, even a normal member of Zero Wing was enviable.

Of course, this was only the opinion of the ignorant independent players and of Heaven's Burial's members, and it was far from the actual reality.

In truth, Heaven's Burial can not compete with Zero Wing in any possible metric, which was evident by the fact that even with only its elite members participating, Zero Wing still outmatched Heaven's Burial in the number of players on the fifth and sixth floors.

Among the actual backbone of Zero Wing, the guild's core members, none had bothered to come to the Divine Coliseum. Why in the world would they waste their time on something like that?

All of them had reached a level where they could easily pass all of the Trial Tower's floors during the previous timeline, so instead of squandering precious time and Magic Crystals on such things, the restored members might as well invest their efforts into other ways to grow stronger.

Hence, only Zero Wing's elite members who have yet to have their memories restored were coming to the Divine Coliseum, using it to train everything that they had learned from the Guild's core members, which was why so many of the elite members had managed to break through the Tial Tower's fourth floor, with some even passing the fifth floor.

These facts were basically lost on the common folk, and they only knew how to look at the list displayed at the Divine Coliseum's main hall to decide on which guild was superior, even no longer taking Zero Wing's clearing of many high-ranking Dungeons into account since they apparently have the memory span of goldfish. This situation is also one of the reasons Heaven's Burial dared to compete over White River City while Zero Wing reigned as the overlord.

Though, even those delusions were about to be shattered.

Within a few minutes, one after another, new names started appearing on the list of players who had reached the Trial Tower's fifth floor, the rankings constantly changing as players started passing the fourth floor in droves.

"What's going on? I'm not seeing things, right? Why did more than a dozen names suddenly appear on the list?!"

"Wow, it's true. The total number of people on the list was 219. Now it's 240. I wonder which Guild or independent players succeeded?"

Many among the spectators greatly admired the independent experts who had reached the fifth floor.

At this point, there were only a few experts in White River City who had reach the fifth floor. If one were an independent expert, large Guilds would shower them with invitations and various offers. They would become famous overnight and would no longer have to live an ordinary life.

This situation had driven many independent players into a frenzy. It was one of the reasons why so many independent players were desperately challenging the Trial Tower.

Today's mainstream experts were already on the fifth floor. After some more time passed, when these experts reached the sixth floor, it would be far more difficult for independent players to experience such overnight fame.

As everyone began searching for the identity of those 21 experts, they suddenly realized that something was amiss.

"Why does it seem like these people are from Zero Wing?"

"This is a lie, right? All 21 people are actually from Zero Wing?!"

None of the spectators dared to believe their own eyes. They immediately began counting the total number of players Zero Wing had on the fifth floor. In the end, they discovered that there were indeed 21 more fifth floor experts in the Guild. Instantly, Zero Wing became the Guild with the most experts on the Trial Tower's fifth floor.

However, just as they finished counting, another group of experts managed to pass through the fourth floor.

This time, the numbers were even more frightening, with a total of 62 people.

Moreover, all 62 were members of Zero Wing.

Suddenly, the Divine Colosseum fell silent.

Just what was this?

Nobody in the main hall could make sense of what was happening.

Zero Wing now had a total of 128 people on the Trial Tower's fifth floor, far ahead of Heaven's Burial.

If it were just an additional dozen or so people, the spectating players would have, at most, been surprised. However, if so many members of Zero Wing's Dark Gods Legion were experts who passed the fourth floor, the term "shock" was no longer appropriate. This was simply terrifying.

Moreover, the number just kept rising with each passing minute.

"Zero Wing really knows how to hide its strength." Sitting in one of the rooms on the second floor, Ghost Shadow, the player who was currently number one on the Trial Tower's rankings and the only player who had reached the seventh floor, squinted his eyes at the fifth floor's list. He, too, felt a heavy pressure weigh on him.

There was no longer anybody who dared to look down on Zero Wing. Nobody dared disparage the Guild anymore, claiming that its position as White River City's overlord was no longer stable.

Soon enough, more members of Zero Wing's Dark Gods Legion began appearing on the fifth-floor list, while some even passed the fifth floor, and became one of the few dozen experts who had reached the sixth floor.

These changes continued to occur and shock everyone up until every one of the 300 elite Zero Wing members had passed the fourth floor.

Shortly after every member of Zero Wing's Dark Gods Legion passed through the Trial Tower's fourth floor, news spread at the speed of light. This reminded everyone just how powerful Zero Wing was.

Upon receiving this information, most of the few powers who still remained in White River City decided to cut their losses, while many Guilds gave up on their development in Star-Moon Kingdom, shifting their attention to other countries instead.

Against Zero Wing, whose 300-man Legion, and most likely the entire Main Force, consisted entirely of experts who could clear the fourth floor and above, their Guilds stood no chance. Rather than wait for their extermination, it would be better for them to develop themselves elsewhere. Who knew? Their chances of achieving success might even be higher somewhere else.

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Meanwhile, in Heaven's Burial's Guild Residence...

"Just how did Zero Wing manage to recruit so many experts?" Flame Blood frowned upon receiving news of the Divine Colosseum's latest events.

"What happened?" a short and chubby middle-aged man beside Flame Blood asked in a low tone.

"Zero Wing just sent its newly formed Legion to challenge the Trial Tower. In the end, every member has managed to reach the fifth floor. Among them, around fifty had passed it and reached the sixth floor." Flame Blood said, not showing any signs of the arrogance he usually displayed as the Commander of Heaven's Burial's main force. On the contrary, he had lowered his posture when he spoke to the chubby middle-aged man.

Although the man before Flame Blood was not adept with virtual reality games, the man's position in the real world allowed him to remove Flame Blood from Heaven's Burial easily should he ever wish to. Even the Guild Leader of Heaven's Burial, Singular Burial, had to treat this middle-aged man with great respect.

"Interesting. It seems that we won't be able to avoid a confrontation with Zero Wing if we wish to obtain this treasured land," the chubby man said as he caressed his goatee. After a moment of silence, he continued, "Since we can't beat them with numbers, let's improve the Guild's overall strength.

"Flame Blood, notify Ghost Shadow and tell him that I'll send Daybreak Fog to help out. We need to obtain the First Clear of the 100-man Dungeon that Zero Wing hasn't managed to clear yet as soon as possible."

"Daybreak Fog?" Flame Blood could not help his surprise at the mention of this name. "Are we giving up on Star-Moon City?"

Heaven's Burial's ambition was colossal. The Guild aimed to control all of Star-Moon Kingdom. The best way to do so was to take control of the kingdom's lifeline first—its players.

The two cities with the largest player population in the kingdom were Star-Moon City and White River City. Both also had the largest gathering of elite players. As long as Heaven's Burial took control of these two cities, controlling the rest of the kingdom was only a matter of time.

Of these two cities, Flame Blood spearheaded the White River City take-over, while Star-Moon City was spearheaded by Daybreak Fog.

If one compared these two people's fame, Daybreak Fog was superior. Flame Blood was merely one of the previous year's top ten newcomers. On the other hand, Daybreak Fog had been one of the top ten newcomers of the virtual gaming world two years ago. Afterward, she had continued to perform magnificently in many virtual reality games. her fame was only slightly inferior to the Snow Goddess, Gentle Snow, as she had made her debut roughly two years later than Gentle Snow had.

In terms of strength, Daybreak Fog ranked third within Heaven's Burial.

If they really sent Daybreak Fog to White River City as support, with her strength and her team, Heaven's Burial might actually have a chance of clearing the 100-man Team Dungeon Frost Prison, which Zero Wing hasn't managed to conquer as of yet for some reason.

After all, during this period, everyone mostly understood the difficulty of a 100-man Team Dungeon. From the experience of clearing 50-man Team Dungeons, they had thought up of plenty of strategies. Now, all they needed to do was to take action.

"White River City has become Star-Moon Kingdom's business center. The number of elite players migrating to the city increases by the day. Star-Moon City is no match in this aspect. Hence, we have to prioritize this side for now. Moreover, when comparing the difficulty of 100-man Dungeons, White River City's is easier. If we allow Zero Wing to continue developing unhindered, it will become impossible to take control of White River City in the future."

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Arriving at the 4-star Shop, Feng went up to the Forging Room that Black Flame was in, checking up on the passed-out Perfect Clone, before giving his duplicate a Source of Darkness as well.

Following this, Feng spent a certain amount of Seven Luminaries Crystals to download that Source of Darkness and the Power of Darkness Berserk Skill that came with it using the Ethereal Replicant Core.

The regular Power of Darkness skill that Feng has always used came from the Bible of Darkness, which Black Flame will have no way of utilizing for the Berserk Skill since it requires one to have the Fragmented Legendary bible on them.

Hence, Feng decided to bestow his Perfect Clone with the Power of Darkness similarly to how he used the Light of Darkness skill on his guild members, which worked out without any issues thanks to Black Flame counting as a player and possessing a pseudo God's Domain account.

However, Black Flame wouldn't be able to keep the Source of Darkness if Feng were to update the clone with his own information, with the Source of Darkness in the other him and the Power of Darkness Berserk Skill getting erased in the process; unless Feng took back the Power of Darkness every time before updating Black Flame and using Light of Darkness on the Perfect Clone again, repeating this process each time he needed to update the clone.

So Feng simply copied the Power of Darkness his clone had received from him using Information Uptake, acquiring it as well and making it so that there weren't any problems when he needs to update the clone.

Additionally, using this method, Feng could use two Power of Darkness Berserk Skills.

One from the copied effects of Light of Darkness and the other from the Bible of Darkness.

The first one which he copied was the weaker version and had a duration of ten minutes.

As for the second one, after giving each of the members who have become a part of the Dark Gods Legion a Source of Darkness, even though Feng had not used up all of the slots for the Light of Darkness skill, his Power of Darkness Berserk Skill from the Bible of Darkness still had a duration of over fifteen minutes, which made it for quite a useful trump card considering most fights don't even last that long, and Feng will be able to outlast anybody else's Berserk duration; even if they have more than one Berserk Skill.

With both Power of Darkness skills, Feng currently had a total time of over twenty-five minutes in Berserk state with only those two, and if he were to use up all the slots available from Light of Darkness, the total duration would reach thirty-five minutes.

Satisfied with the massive boosts to his combat power and the potential applications of the two long Berserk Skills, Feng returned to Zero Wing's Guild Residence and went on with organizing whatever was necessary for the Burning Wing Legion, along with asking for reports on Zero Wing's current situation.

An hour soon passed, and all of the Zero Wing members who made the cut for the first group assembled in a meeting hall. All of them had taken the opportunity to make any preparations, including Aqua and Ruoxi, who had absorbed the Peak Bloodlines Feng had given to them.

Confirming that everyone in the first batch was here, Feng started an incantation and activated the Manager Token's Gate of Darkness skill, summoning a huge gate made entirely of black fog.

After the gate opened, Feng ushered everyone into the six-meter-tall gate, through which they stepped through and teleported to the Dark Den.

In no time at all, the crowded meeting hall emptied out, leaving only two people remaining.

"So you chose to go to the World Summit with the later groups?" Feng turned towards the black-haired beauty standing to the side and inquired after she had informed him that she won't be joining the first batch despite being a Main Force member.

"Yep. I want your help with first finishing the current task for the Silver Legend Quest and completing the Witch's Sin Quest before I take on my Tier 1 Class Change Quest and go to the World Summit." Ruoxi smiled at Feng when only the two of them were left in the meeting room as she stated her reasoning for staying behind.

Ruoxi had previously wanted to do the Silver Legend Quest, which gave her a powerful Mount depending on the Quest's Completion Rate, with Feng's help to get the best possible result, but he had been unavailable at the time, so Ruoxi could only leave it for later while switching to other things.

One such thing was triggering the Witch's Sin Quest, which Ruoxi had received in her previous life after completing the Silver Legend Quest, discovering a different method to obtain it in the process and starting the Legacy Quest early this time around.

There were many Legacies in God's Domain.

However, in Star-Moon Kingdom, there were five Legacies known to be the strongest, titled the Five Great Legacies. The Witch's Sin was one of them. These Five Great Legacies were all Peak Legacies. Unfortunately, there was no concrete method to trigger any of these Five Great Legacies' quests. It was highly possible for one to trigger the quest after completing an ordinary Quest.

Those who encountered these Five Great Legacy Quests were extremely lucky.

Though, stumbling upon one of Star-Moon Kingdom's Five Great Legacies and completing one were completely different matters. Most importantly, there would be frightening consequences if one failed the quest after accepting it.

Those who failed a Basic Legacy Quest would, at worst, be barred from logging into the game for a certain amount of time. They could continue challenging the quest once they were able to log back into the game. As for Legacies that provided hidden classes, players only had one chance. Failing these Legacy Quests usually resulted in a single death. However, the punishment for failing the Five Great Legacy Quests was extremely severe. Not only would one lose three Levels, but they would also enter a Weakened state for ten days.

Moreover, this was only the tip of the iceberg. The worst part about failing one of the Five Great Legacy Quests was that one would permanently lose some of their Luck Attribute...

The Luck Attribute was a Hidden Attribute. Normally, it was difficult to increase the Attribute by one or two points. If a player permanently lost some of their Luck as a result of failing the Legacy Quest, it would massively impact their performance in various aspects such as their drop-rate when opening Treasure Chests and grinding monsters.

Due to this, the Five Great Legacies of Star-Moon Kingdom had been extremely famous in the past. There was only a thin line separating heaven and hell.

Ruoxi had always been incredibly lucky in her adventures while playing God's Domain, only behind Feng himself, as she came across all kinds of opportunities and crazy situations, triggering Witch's Sin being one of her three greatest fortunes to date; the other two being mastering the Law of Illusion and, of course, meeting Feng in God's Domain, which made it possible for Ruoxi to rise much faster with his help and by having him to fall back on whenever she bit off more than she could chew.

The Witch Legacy, although a Basic Peak Legacy that didn't have as much potential as an Advanced Peak Legacy like Feng's or Violet's Blade Saint and True Saint Legacies, was still remarkably powerful, and more importantly, quite unique in its capabilities and fighting style, which Ruoxi had mastered and perfectly incorporated, becoming a fearsome expert that often caught off guard even experts that had combat standards much superior to her own with her Witch abilities.

Wishing to once again become a Witch, Ruoxi was eager to do the Quest, but since she needed to complete the Silver Legend Quest in the same place as well, along with the remainder of the chain Quest needing time, Ruoxi decided on asking Feng for help in order to speed things up and get a higher Completion Rate for the Silver Legend and get a powerful Mount.

Of course, Ruoxi had other intentions as well.

"Sure, let's go." Feng himself still had other things that he needed to do on the God's Domain Continent, so he couldn't immediately make another trip to the World Summit with the first group of Zero Wing members, but since there was still some waiting time before then, Feng could take the opportunity to help Ruoxi out and spend some private time with her, which he hasn't had the chance to do or have any bonding time ever since their relationship began aside from having sex.

In truth, Ruoxi herself could handle most of the tasks for the two Quests, albeit it with a lot of effort and trouble, or she could have asked some of the other Main Force members for assistance. Having Feng accompany her wasn't really necessary for something like this.

However, setting aside how busy everyone is with their own matters and if they could spare the time to help her, she still chose to ask Feng to come along with her, not wanting to miss the golden opportunity for finally having Feng all to herself for once.

Following which, Feng and Ruoxi headed to the Teleportation Hall and teleported to the Crystal Forest.

The Crystal Forest was a small Level 40 to Level 50 map. However, the terrain was complex. The monsters here also had high Defense and HP. As a result, very few players were willing to level up here.

Having no need to take a look at the quest details Ruoxi had sent him, Feng flew towards a certain cave with his giant wings while carrying Ruoxi in his arms like a princess. While being held by Feng and flying, Ruoxi enjoyed the view of the Crystal Forest.

Although this wasn't her first time witnessing the beautiful scenery of God's Domain or flying over the Crystal Forest, something felt different to Ruoxi this time around. She didn't feel like she was in some kind of rush or hurry that made her move from one place to another without a break.

Instead, there was a calm atmosphere around the two of them, allowing Feng and Ruoxi to live in the moment and enjoy the feeling of flying freely in each other's company. Feng felt it too.

It was definitely odd, and Ruoxi had no idea why she had never felt like this before, but extremely wholesome, a deep comfort spreading through Ruoxi's body as she rested in Feng's arms while they traveled using his wings.

Feng himself wasn't sure what had changed about them, but something has greatly influenced the way he and his girls, along with the other restored Zero Wing members, perceive the world. He no longer felt burdened by the immeasurable pressure that he normally felt, a sense of peace in his mind as he held Ruoxi in a princess carry and flew towards his destination.

Peace got a bit boring for Feng fairly quickly though, and a different type of excitement appeared in his mind as he looked at the beauty in his arms. Out of curiosity, Feng activated Eros Vision.

[Thoughtful Rain]

Tier: 0

Level: 99

Gender: Female

Race: Human (Bloodline: Peak Rank Omnipotent Mirage Bloodline)

Title: None (Dragon Slayer)

Age: ???

Cup Size: E

Virgin: ???

Mental State: Normal

Physical State: Normal

Stamina Remaining: 100%

Affiliation: Forces of Light, Member of the Zero Wing Adventurer Guild

Relationship Status: ???

Favorability: ???

Sexually Attracted: ???

Fetish: ???

The information Eros Vision provided was much more limited this time around than when he used it on NPCs or the Perfect Clone, on which the Main God's System already had info about and could provide it to Feng when he used the Unique Identification Skill.

For actual players, though, private information such as the player's age, sexual status, and her opinion of Feng was inaccessible to the system so it couldn't give him such confidential details, or at least it refused to provide him with another player's private information.

Eros Vision still put Ruoxi's body on full display for him, though, providing a detailed analysis and all of her measurements, along with both a holographic and naked diagram of Ruoxi's body being shown through the Identification Skill.

But Feng had already seen plenty of Ruoxi in the real world so he wasn't really interested and went back to enjoying the moment as they flew towards their destination.

Unfortunately, it came to an end regardless when the two of them arrived at the cave for Ruoxi's Quest, Feng elegantly flapping his wings and bringing them down to the ground in front of the entrance.

Close to the cave entrance, over a dozen Level 43 Special Elite Crystal Giants roamed the area. Meanwhile, a massive Icefire Cheetah slept a short distance from the cave. This Icefire Cheetah was a Level 44 Lord. It would slaughter an ordinary party easily.

Aside from the Crystal Giants and Icefire Cheetah guarding the cave, a group of Crystal Wolves patrolling the area could also be spotted.

As long as someone fought within the cave's vicinity, they would attract the attention of the Crystal Wolves. The monsters would inadvertently catch them in a pincer attack.

The Crystal Wolves were roughly two meters long, and their bodies were made of light-blue crystal. One could come across several hundred Crystal Wolves patrolling the forest.

[Crystal Giant] (Elemental Being, Special Elite)

Level 43

HP 510,000/510,000

[Icefire Cheetah] (Elemental Being, Lord)

Level 44

HP 4,000,000/4,000,000

[Crystal Wolf] (Elemental Being, Common)

Level 41

HP 48,000/48,000

If a team with insufficient strength and numbers was to take on so many monsters at once, it would be extremely difficult for them to make it to the cave. Furthermore, there were huge level gaps between the current players and the cave's guardians.

Different from what one might expect, the Special Elite rank Crystal Giants and the Icefire Cheetah weren't actually the main problem when fighting these monsters. Instead the biggest nuisance out of all of them were the Crystal Wolves.

Wolves loved to hunt in groups. Naturally, this was the case for the Crystal Wolves in the Crystal Forest. Although one could only see a few hundred in the area, once a battle began, these Crystal Wolves would call for reinforcements. If players could not finish the Crystal Wolves off quickly enough and allowed the monsters to use their Summon Skill...

They would have to fight far more than just a few hundred Crystal Wolves.

If the Crystal Wolves summoned the Crystal Wolf King, tragedy would befall them.

The Crystal Wolf King was the Crystal Forest's ruler. It was also a Level 50 Great Lord. In Feng's previous lives, countless players, who had ventured to the Crystal Forest in search of ores, had died under the Wolf King's paws. Hence, after the general populace learned of this beast, many players had tried to avoid provoking the Crystal Wolves. If their party attacked the Crystal Wolves, they would find death waiting for them.

Feng and Ruoxi, however, paid the collective of monsters no mind as they leisurely landed in enemy territory and strolled towards the cave with held hands, treating this as an outing.

Despite the humans' appearance, and complete lack of regard towards the many surrounding monsters, none of the creatures dared to take a single step forward, much less attack the two lovers.

Monsters normally attacked any players around, but if there was a big gap in levels and the players weren't actively aggressive or intruding onto someplace, hostile creatures tended to avoid trouble.

Both Feng and Ruoxi were currently Level 99. Even the Icefire Cheetah, the monster with the highest level of those around them, was 55 levels behind the two humans.

Naturally, with such an enormous gap, monsters won't commit suicide by trying to attack them. Moreover, both Feng and Ruoxi radiated frightening auras that turned the Crystal Wolves into puppies.

As the guardians of this cave, though, the monsters were forced into action despite knowing the only result awaiting them was death. Still, none of them actually attacked, simply moving to stand in front of the entrance and block the two humans' way while releasing low growls in an attempt to intimidate them.

That failed completely as neither Feng nor Ruoxi gave the monsters any face, continuing the casual stroll towards the cave's entrance at a leisure pace. If the Crystals Wolves and Crystal Giants weren't made entirely of crystals, they'd be sweating by now while watching the two approach them.

They wished to turn tail and escape, but the Main God's System forbade that, not allowing monsters that were tasked as guardians to run away from somewhere Quest-related.

Hence, the giant group of monsters could only prepare themselves to charge at Feng and Ruoxi and accept their fates. Being a Lord ranked monster, the Icefire Cheetah was the first to step up, releasing a low roar at the intruders to boost its confidence.

"Roa-"

Before the mighty sound could fully leave the Icefire Cheetah's mouth, the Lord ranked monster's entire being suddenly froze in place when Feng glanced at it.

There wasn't just a level and attribute difference between him and the surrounding monsters.

After absorbing the Apex rank Draconic-Voidling Bloodline as well as the Peak rank Savitarian Carnation Bloodline, upgrading the latter with Primal Infusion, Feng's Life Rating had skyrocketed, being no less than that of a Dragon of the same Tier.

Facing such a difference in their Life Ratings, the Icefire Cheetah couldn't even move in Feng's presence when he let loose his aura.

Feng didn't make the monsters suffer any more after they got frozen in place by his Life Rating, using Flame Domain to envelop all of the monsters guarding the cave's entrance with flames, deactivating the Large-scale Destruction Skill when he and Ruoxi were about to walk into its range.

A pile of items is all that was left of the large number of monsters, none having survived the shortened Flame Domain as they left behind all sorts of weapons, equipment, materials, and a few Skill Books.

Feng didn't bother with stopping for the drops and simply pulled out the Salvage Corp from his bag and summoned the Fragmented Legendary item's ghosts to collect all the loot, while the two of them continued inside the cave.

After Feng and Ruoxi entered the cave and headed deeper inside, they saw a distant, glowing altar.

Five crystal pillars stood around the altar, glowing a faint blue. A golden Treasure Chest sat above the altar.

Next to the Treasure Chest sat a massive, pitch-black egg.

Runes decorated the egg's surface, and a faint, white mist flowed into it.

That giant, sealed egg was the reason for their visit to the Crystal Forest. It was the item Ruoxi was looking for and needed to continue with the Silver Legend Quest, hatching the giant egg and being awarded a Mount.

A faint, blue barrier enveloped the altar. An NPC also stood next to the altar with his eyes closed. If one used an Identification Skill on this NPC, they would discover that he was actually a Level 100, Tier 3 Illusionist.

[Gerard] (Illusionist)

Level 100

HP 8,000,000/8,000,000

The indicator above this Illusionist was red, informing players that this Tier 3 NPC was an enemy.

A Tier 3 class was the equivalent of a Great Lord of the same Level. Although NPCs had far less HP than Great Lords of the same Level, players would rather deal with a Great Lord than a Tier 3 NPC.

Furthermore, the Illusionist before them was a Level 100, Tier 3 NPC.

Observing the Level 100 Tier 3 NPC for a moment from afar, a faint smile crept up on Feng's face while a flaming needle appeared in his right hand.

"Catch this motherfucker!" With the shout, Feng threw the Blazing Meteor at the still NPC.

Flame God's Fury!

In the previous timeline, when he had made a trip to this cave along with Ruoxi and some other players to help her with the Silver Legend Quest, before either of them knew the other's true identity, Feng had stalled Gerard while another player went over to steal the giant black egg.

At the beginning of the operation, though, Feng had tried to hit the Tier 3 NPC with the Super Dark-Gold rank Blazing Meteor, only to fail miserably due to the huge gap between himself, who had been a mere Level 39 Tier 1 player with only a few Epic and one Fragmented Legendary items, and Gerard, with the Level 100 Tier 3 NPC easily catching the Blazing Meteor between his fingers.

Although it was an expected and reasonable outcome considering the difference in strength, it was nonetheless an upsetting memory, which Feng recalled upon seeing that same Gerard standing at the altar.

This time around, the situation is much different. Feng's current strength was out of this world, even surpassing many Tier 4 NPCs, and the Blazing Meteor was a Fragmented Legendary Throwing Weapon.

He'd like to see Gerard try catching the Blazing Meteor again, or even dodging it, since with how strong Feng was at the moment, killing a Tier 3 NPC was a trivial task.

And compared to the previous timeline, the Blazing Meteor fared much better upon being thrown at Gerard.

Despite the Tier 3 NPC having reached Level 100 and crossing one of the most important Major Thresholds in God's Domain, before he could react to Feng's shout or the incoming flaming needle, or even open his eyes fully, the Blazing Meteor had already reached Gerard thanks to Feng's monstrous Attack Speed and struck the NPC's forehead.

Dragon Flames enveloped Gerard, both from Flame God's Fury's power, it getting enhanced by the Draonic-Voidling Bloodline, and by the throw triggering Blazing Meteor's Dragon Throw effect.

Along with the Ignore Defense effect triggering an insane amount of damage appeared above Gerard's head, and before the Tier 3 NPC could even release a scream, the Dragon Flames devoured him, reducing the Illusionist to nothing but ashes and a couple of items.

With one attack, Feng had killed the Level 100 Tier 3 NPC, to whom he had only been an ant in the previous timeline when facing him.

"Well, that's done." Seeing that Gerard was the only threat or enemy in the cave, Feng finished his job of helping Ruoxi with the Silver Legend Quest.

Ruoxi walked up to the altar and approached the giant egg, beginning to collect it.

She spent a total of three seconds collecting the giant, black egg, while simply chucking the locked Fine-Gold Treasure Chest and the Illusionist's loot into her bag.

Upon the egg entering her bag space, a system notification sounded in Ruoxi's ears, notifying her of the next part of the Silver Legend Quest.

Her initial quest had been to retrieve the giant egg. Now, Ruoxi needed to incubate and hatch the egg in order to complete the Quest and obtain her Mount reward.

A large amount of Life Force was needed to incubate this egg, which can only be obtained by killing twenty Great Lords that are Level 40 or above.

Something like that was easy for Ruoxi, but that was only the minimal requirement.

With twenty Great Lords, she could complete the Quest, but if she killed more than twenty, or better yet, monsters above Great Lord rank, Silver Legend's Quest Completion Rate would increase accordingly.

Naturally, this was Ruoxi's plan, and since she often hunts Mythic and Superior Mythic monsters with the Main Force, she was going to fill up the giant egg with as much Life Force as it would take and get the highest possible Completion Rate for the Quest.

But that will take a lot of time and effort, so Ruoxi left it to collect Life Force gradually over a certain period of time, she and Feng moved on to deal with the Witch's Sin Quest.

In order to complete this phase of the Legacy Quest, Ruoxi would need to get the Crystal Heart, which can be obtained by killing the Crystal Wolf King.

The Crystal Wolf King was a mere Level 50 Great Lord, so eliminating it and acquiring the Crystal Heart was a trivial matter.

"Since it's an easy task, we can make use of this chance to do something else, and I can see how much they've progressed." Deciding that simply killing the Crystal Wolf King using their overwhelming strength would be too simple and easy, Feng opted to do it in another way.

Retrieving two contracts from his bag, Feng began to chant an incantation.

"Emerge!"

Immediately, two Teleportation Magic Arrays appeared on the ground.

Following a flash of silver light, two figures, a man and a woman, emerged from the two magic arrays.

These two were none other than Kite and Anna, Feng's Personal Guards.

Originally, Anna was supposed to spend a week building up her foundations to become an Adventurer, but Feng had brought out a bunch of the Consumables obtained from his Treasure Chest opening and fed them to his Personal Guards.

Many of the Consumables were valuable treasures, with multiple being at Inferior Legendary rank. They wouldn't have been of much practical use to Feng if he himself had consumed them, so he left them for his Personal Guards to use and grow stronger.

After consuming a sizeable amount of his stocked-up Consumables, Anna's Potential had risen from 96 to 101, the girl becoming an Epic Personal Guard, making her strength increase exponentially and shortening the time she needed to become a full Adventurer by a few days.

Kite, on the other hand, had consumed a similar amount of the Consumables, with his Potential jumping from 94 to 100, stopping at the precipes between a Dark-Gold ranked and Epic ranked Personal Guard, unfortunately unable to cross as all of the very powerful Consumable had already been used up, while the remainder couldn't help a Personal Guard with his potential.

Nevertheless, Kite had still reached the Peak of Dark-Gold rank Personal Guards and was only a step away, so he was still plenty powerful.

In order to see how strong his Personal Guards currently were and to ascertain about how much they would progress in the future, Feng decided to let them fight the Crystal Wolf King instead of him and Ruoxi.

"Let's go."

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Dark Den, World Summit

Inside a certain Epic Shrine on the World Summit, an exceptional beauty with two pairs of pitch-black wings lay naked on a large bed.

A lost look of boredom portrayed the Fallen Angel's expression, seemingly lost in thought as she gazed around without anything to do.

Occasionally, the gorgeous beauty would roll from one side to the other, smelling the sheets and pillow of the bed.

The stench of sex radiated from the bed and filled up the Shrine, the dirtied sheets stained with all sorts of fluids, in particular, gave off a foul odor that would make some people reek. However, it only served to further arouse the resting Fallen Angel.

It had only been three days since Feng collected the Bible of Darkness from her and left, but to Serena, it felt like months had passed.

In the past, although she was pretty much always bored since she had nothing to do at the World Summit, Serena didn't mind it too much. Aside from patrolling around and making sure everything was in order, which it always was since no one interesting really comes to the World Summit, with some random weaklings trying their luck and seeking fortune challenging the test being the only ones who come here nowadays, there was nothing else for the World Summit's Administrator to do.

Hence, Serena was used to being bored.

After Feng had suddenly appeared here three days ago, however, the Fallen Angel's mind could no longer settle down. Ever since experiencing the amazing feeling of sex for the first time, Serena hadn't been able to forget the sensual exchange of passions that had gone down between herself and that human, constantly distracted with her mind in the clouds.

Feng seemed to be the only thing on her mind after they made love, unable to stop thinking about him and wondering when he'd be back.

Even before he had left, Serena had already been struggling to keep herself from pouncing on Feng, wishing to fulfill her newfound lustful desires, but the defiled Fallen Angel believed that, with her willpower and self-control, keeping her sanity together and not becoming desperate would be manageable.

She couldn't have been more wrong.

Within the first day of Feng leaving the Epic Shrine, the urge to stick something inside her was already overwhelming Serena, never having expected to experience such a powerful desire which made her incredibly horny, a feeling she had never had to endure before in her life due to always focusing on just improving her strength and never encountering someone that made her feel such a way.

By now Serena was close to going insane, wanting nothing more than to have Feng right here and now.

Alas, her lover never came.

The only way Serena could remedy her lust was by using her hands. In order to increase the pleasure of masturbating as much as possible, the Fallen Angel had even kept the bed left behind by Feng in its exact same state, not cleaning or fixing it up at all despite the mess they had made in the initial round; with even the sides having cracks in a few places.

For the last three days, if the Fallen Angel wasn't reminiscing the short time she had spent with Feng, Serena was spending her time with her face buried in the sheets or pillow and with her hand between her legs, vigorously pleasuring herself in order to cope with the stress and the itching of her lower lips.

But the effects were minimal.

Aside from the pleasure not being anywhere near comparable since the inexperienced maiden couldn't move remotely as dexterously or reach as deeply as Feng had, the effects of Feng's Advanced Seducing Talent Addicting Pleasure made it so his victims couldn't experience pleasure the same after he had his way with them, their sexual desires would burn inside them much more intensely, and they would crave his touch.

A newly unvirgined girl like Serena who had never experienced anything intimate before naturally got immediately hooked on Feng and the pleasure he brings her from just the one time they made love.

"When will you come back?" Curling up slightly on the bed, Serena quietly mumbled to herself, attempting to activate the connection between her Administrator Token and Feng's Manager Token using Relay in order to communicate with her crush; with it failing to go through again, as it did every other time she tried to call.

In her current state, she'd be willing to do pretty much anything it took to have Feng with her again, very much different from her previous apprehension when offering him the Manager Token so that Feng could come to the World Summit again whenever he wanted to and visit her.

Had it not been for her duties and responsibilities, which had been given to Serena by the Destruction Goddess many years ago, making it so that she had to stay at the World Summit and watch over it, the depraved Fallen Angel would have already gone to Feng when these urges became too much to bear.

Serena even began to loathe her job as the World Summit's Administrator, greatly disliking that her freedom was restricted, pondering if it was possible for her to still leave.

Just as Serena began considering going back on her job and betraying Seraphina, she suddenly sensed that the Gate of Darkness skill from the Manager Token that she had given to Feng was activated.

Moreover, the coordinates of the Darkness Gate's exit point were right at the entrance of the World Summit.

Immediately getting up and making her previous dress appear and cover her body, Serena created a water mirror using her Mana and checked her reflection, fixing up her hair and appearance.

In spite of never having done anything like this before in her life, the Fallen Angel for some reason instinctively felt that it was important; wishing to look good when she appeared before Feng.

After confirming that there were no problems, Serena left the Epic Shrine and flew down to the World Summit's entrance at the fastest speed that a Tier 5 Fallen Angel could muster, arriving at the bottom in a matter of seconds.

However, when she arrived, a slight frown appeared on Serena's breathtaking face.

Instead of the person she had been eagerly expecting, a group of five hundred or so humans had come out of the Gate of Darkness. As if to make matters worse, upon inspecting the group with her aquamarine eyes, Feng wasn't anywhere among them.

Upon Serena's appearance, the acute senses of the Zero Wing's members who Feng had sent as the first batch immediately picked up on the Tier 5 Fallen Angel's imposing presence. They all simultaneously turned to look at her, getting an immensely bad feeling when they saw her sour and unwelcoming expression.

"Who are you humans? Why did you come through that Gate of Darkness? And-" Serena spoke in a harsh tone, which gradually became chilly and threatening "Where is He?"

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