Second-Order Combat Power

As the wolf howls drew closer and closer, everyone focused their mental energy, staring fixedly at the countless stone pillars rising ahead along the narrow path.

As for the items dropped by the thousand or so Werewolf Warriors on the ground, not a single person so much as glanced at them, much less went to pick them up.

It was not that Shi Feng and the others did not want to, but that they could not.

Everyone had fully experienced just how powerful and cunning Lord-ranked monsters could be back in White Mist Canyon.

Even Elite monsters knew petty tricks like sneak attacks, let alone Lord-ranked monsters. Sneak attacks were nothing to them. What was truly terrifying was how they could strike from a player's blind spot and deliver a fatal blow, leaving one utterly defenseless. Earlier, Kele, the main MT, had nearly been killed by a Lord monster's sneak attack several times. If not for Arc of Time, Arc Light Guard's heaven-defying skill, he would have died at least five or six times already.

Shi Feng and the others did not possess any heaven-defying skills. Trying to pick up dropped items now was practically suicide.

Before long, the wolf howls abruptly stopped. A deadly aura of death swept toward them, and even the air around the narrow path seemed to freeze.

"Where's the monster?" Heizi asked in surprise as he looked ahead but saw nothing.

"It should be hiding. The stone pillars ahead are ideal for concealment. That monster is most likely waiting for an opportunity to deal us a fatal blow." Flying Shadow, who was in Stealth, spoke up. "Guild Leader, should I go scout it out?"

"No, it has already come over." Shi Feng shook his head and drew Abyssal Walker and Shadow of Purgatory from his