Star-Moon Kingdom, Zero Wing City's Zero Wing Residence.
An indescribably oppressive atmosphere hung over the enormous guild residence, as though an unseen weight pressed upon everyone's hearts at every moment, leaving them drained with exhaustion.
"Big Sis Water, our people just received word that Heavenly Burial Guild has obtained another round of funding from the Blackwater Consortium. They gave them another 200,000 Gold in one go. The number of Subtle Realm experts Heavenly Burial hired to deal with us is also increasing. Even the returned Conqueror Squad can only defend passively..."
"According to the people we planted in Heavenly Burial Guild, they made another substantial haul from the Ancient Miracle last time. They supposedly obtained two sets of top-tier intermediate magic arrays and quite a few top-tier Level 50 pieces of equipment, which they intend to use to raid a Level 50 super-large team dungeon."
Standing beside Water Rose, Yaya delivered her report slowly, her expression indescribably gloomy.
In just a few days, although Zero Wing Guild had continued to grow stronger—especially Zero Wing City, which drew in more and more players, while its number of experts steadily rose—the number of players leaving the guild each day had also continued to increase. It was for no other reason than that whenever they went out into the wilderness to level up, they would inevitably encounter all kinds of ambushes.
It would have been one thing if it only lasted two or three days, but it happened every day. Everyone was already utterly exhausted. It severely affected both their leveling speed and the speed at which they improved their equipment. On top of that, Heavenly Burial Guild was growing ever more powerful. Many people simply could not endure it any longer. Unable to see any hope, they could only give up.
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