Moltenfire Ruins, Inner Corridors.
A team of fewer than fifty players frantically retreated deeper into the ruins while fending off two Level 106 High Lord Grade Guard Giants.
Although the team had fewer than fifty members, it possessed as many as eight Tier 3 experts. Among them, a female Guardian Knight clad in silver armor streaked with black patterns, wielding a dark-patterned magic shield and a two-handed greatsword, and standing a full 1.9 meters tall, single-handedly held back the two Guard Giants without falling at a disadvantage.
Thanks to the female Guardian Knight's performance, the other Tier 3 players could deal with the dozen or so Lord Grade Guard Mechanical Puppets rushing in, allowing the entire team to retreat safely.
This valiant Tier 3 female Guardian Knight was none other than Ziwei, the leader and soul of the Blade of the Firmament Adventurer Team, renowned throughout Dragonheart Island.
"Commander, I received a message from Fan Muran offline. Muran said she found Black Flame, Zero Wing's Guild Leader. After discussing it, their condition for rescuing us is one main-trunk branch from the Tree of Life," a Level 101 Tier 3 Assassin suddenly appeared beside Ziwei and reported.
The moment this Tier 3 Assassin spoke, the entire team fell silent.
"Zero Wing sure has a huge appetite!" a Level 102 Tier 3 Berserker said furiously. "We've been risking our lives in these Inner Corridors and retreating deeper into the ruins all to protect that main-trunk branch. Yet they want the trunk the moment they open their mouths. Wouldn't that mean we've been working for nothing this whole time?"
"That's right. If we're really going to hand over a main-trunk branch, we might as well make a deal with Battle Blood, or another superpower. At least that would be more secure," the Tier