Storm Empire, Nether Mine.
The Storm Empire lay in a plateau region, its entire territory covered in all kinds of mountain ranges. It was famous across God's Domain Continent for producing ore. Nether Mine stood at the border of the Storm Empire, shrouded year-round in nether energy that caused players to expend several times more stamina than they would outside. On top of that, the magical beasts throughout the mountains were extraordinarily powerful, all above Level 70, so few players came here to level up.
Yet at this moment, several thousand players had gathered beside a stream in the mountains. The lowest level among them was Level 62. In the current God's Domain, they were undoubtedly considered top-tier experts.
However, these several thousand experts were divided into two sides. One side had fewer than three or four hundred people, while the other consisted of several thousand people surrounding those three or four hundred.
If players from the Storm Empire had been here, they would have been shocked, because the three or four hundred people being surrounded were all core members of the first-rate Guild Twilight Echo. Every one of them was a pillar of the Guild. Among them were twenty or thirty experts ranked in the Storm Empire, existences far beyond the reach of ordinary players. Just clinging to the coattails of any one of them would have drawn the envy and jealousy of countless players. The strongest among them was Cang Ming, an expert ranked among the top ten of his class in the Storm Empire.
The Storm Empire contained an enormous mix of powers and a terrifying number of players, with experts everywhere. Someone who could rank in the top ten of a class in the Storm Empire would rank within the top twenty or thirty on a