"Is Zero Wing planning to attack the city?"
"Crazy! Zero Wing must have gone crazy! This is Ancient Rock City—how dare they?"
Shi Feng's declaration left the players in Ancient Rock City unable to believe it was real. Some even thought Zero Wing was simply joking.
After Hand of Sacred Heart's continual reinforcement, Ancient Rock City's defenses were stronger than those of any other guild city. Not to mention the forces stationed within the city were enough to make the various superpowers wary. On top of that, Ancient Rock City had gathered dark forces from more than a dozen nearby kingdoms and empires.
Besides Dark Guilds, these dark forces included quite a few dark NPC factions that had moved in. These factions had paid considerable prices and painstakingly developed themselves in Ancient Rock City, even treating it as a base of operations.
Daring to attack Ancient Rock City meant becoming enemies with all these dark forces.
Whether Dark Guilds or dark NPC factions, each of them had two or three—if not more—Tier 4 classes stationed here. Combined with the recently arrived Miracle Guild, there were likely close to two hundred Tier 4 classes defending Ancient Rock City alone.
Such a terrifying number of Tier 4 classes would be enough to conquer a kingdom, let alone defend Ancient Rock City, a guild city only a step away from becoming a main-city-level guild city.
Not only were the players throughout Ancient Rock City shocked, but when the Beast Emperor, who was conducting research in the City Lord's Manor, received the news, he crushed the research instrument in his hand. A trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.
"Black Flame, you really have some nerve! I hadn't gone looking for trouble with you lately, yet you've become this arrogant!"
"Lord Beast Emperor, rumors