Chapter 1 The Amazing Magic Density

"The magic density here is truly astonishing."

As Shi Feng stood in the white mist, his mind suddenly became exceptionally clear and lucid, and he instantly recognized the true nature of the mist.

When players are in areas with high concentrations of magic elements, their minds become clearer and more active, which helps to improve skill completion and combat techniques.

"With such a high concentration, the improvement is probably comparable to drinking Hundred Fruit Brew. If players could level up and fight here, their progress would be five or six times faster than outside. It's a pity that this place is completely isolated from the outside world, and we can't just come and go as we please."

Shi Feng opened the system panel and found that he could no longer contact the outside world. The dilapidated streets were teeming with wandering undead creatures, but their levels weren't very high.

Pain Wraith, Undead Creature, Elite, Level 60, HP 450,000.

Ghoul, Undead Creature, Special Elite, Level 60, HP 700,000.

These semi-transparent Pain Wraiths and wandering Ghouls were relatively few in number on the city's main streets, making them manageable for a party of Level 60 players.

Grinding here would be the best choice, whether for leveling up or improving skill completion.

Shi Feng took out an Invisibility Scroll, used it, and cautiously made his way from the rooftops toward the palace location marked on the map.

The entire city had long become a dead city. Statues stood everywhere on the streets, all of them people who had been transformed by the curse. Clearly, killing the undead creatures wouldn't lift the curse; a solution had to be found at the source.

Within the Thunder Beast Empire that Shi Feng knew, there was probably only one person who could accomplish this.

Thunder Emperor Caesar!

Thunder Emperor Caesar had originally been a fifth-order peak Sword Saint, only a step away from entering the sixth-order divine realm. Unfortunately, that one step was like the distance between heaven and earth.

For players, advancing from a fifth-order class to a sixth-order required immense opportunity, luck, and strength. Not to mention the NPCs of God's Domain. Like Kite, the Dark-Gold Guardian from his previous life, who could only advance to the peak of the fifth order. Entering the sixth order was an impossible dream.

According to legend, Thunder Emperor Caesar, in his pursuit of eternal life, used the power of the entire empire to do a forbidden thing.

Now it seemed that this forbidden thing was likely related to the curse on the imperial capital.

"Damn it, the city is finished, and there are still guards!"

Shi Feng arrived on the rooftop across the street from the palace, staring intently at the mechanical guardians stationed on either side of the palace gate.

Thunder Beast Watcher, High Lord, Level 200, HP ??????

The Thunder Beast Watchers were too high-level; Shi Feng couldn't see their exact health points, but one thing was certain: their health was terrifyingly high.

Ordinary High Lords usually have six health bars, but the Thunder Beast Watcher in front of him had ten.

And there were eight of these Thunder Beast Watchers...

This made Shi Feng admire the power of the Thunder Beast Empire.

Shi Feng had been to many imperial capitals, but this was the first time he had seen such powerful mechanical guardians.

The entire palace was protected by a massive magic array. To enter the palace, one had to either destroy the magic array or enter through the main gate.

Destroying the magic array was clearly unrealistic.

Even a sixth-order god would have trouble destroying a magic array that drew upon such astonishing magical power, let alone a first-order swordsman like him.

But entering through the main gate was also not very realistic at the moment.

Eight Level 200 High Lords. Even a Level 200 fourth-order class wouldn't dare provoke them. A Level 37 first-order swordsman like him would be crushed by these Thunder Beast Watchers before he even reached the gate.

Shi Feng had considered using a third-order demon as bait.

But the level difference was too great. He was afraid that it wouldn't work and would backfire.

"Am I just going to give up like this?" Shi Feng was anxious, looking around, trying to find a solution.

After watching from the rooftop for a while, Shi Feng suddenly noticed something interesting.

There were many undead creatures on the main street in front of the palace, but within a 200-yard radius in front of the palace, there wasn't a single Pain Wraith, only a few Ghouls wandering around.

When some Ghouls and Pain Wraiths wandered over from other places, the Thunder Beast Watchers would kill them instantly with a single strike, but the few Ghouls that were already there were fine.

"The Thunder Beast Watchers must be absolutely neutral. Whether it's players or monsters, they're all enemies to the Thunder Beast Watchers. Why are those few Ghouls okay?"

Shi Feng was very curious about this, and he even summoned a third-order demon and threw a few Ghouls he had caught from other places toward the front gate of the palace.

Without exception, they were all instantly killed by the Thunder Beast Watchers.

"This is interesting." Shi Feng smiled as he looked at the few wandering Ghouls.

Then he controlled the third-order demon to lie in ambush to the side, waiting for those few Ghouls to wander out of the 200-yard absolute forbidden zone.

Time passed, and Shi Feng wasn't in a hurry.

For Shi Feng, who often adventured and completed tasks in God's Domain, patience was the foundation of success.

More than an hour passed, and finally, one Ghoul couldn't resist and walked out of the 200-yard forbidden zone. Shi Feng, like a hawk, controlled the third-order demon to instantly appear in front of the Ghoul, grabbed it with a large hand, and, regardless of the Ghoul's attacks and resistance, forcefully flapped its black wings and quickly left the 200-yard forbidden zone.

The third-order demon brought the Ghoul in front of Shi Feng, holding it tightly, making it unable to move. Shi Feng then activated Eyes of Perception to carefully observe what was different about this Ghoul.

It was actually able to make the Thunder Beast Watchers not dare to move it.

Ghouls were mutated from human corpses, and this Ghoul was still wearing the noble attire it had worn before its death.

"Among the Ghouls killed by the Thunder Beast Watchers before, there were also nobles. Could it be that this Ghoul had a higher title before it died?" Shi Feng looked for a long time but didn't find any useful clues. However, he didn't believe that the main God system would let him complete this level of task for no reason.

Even a Legendary-rank task on a Level 60 map was possible for players to complete at Level 60.

But the Thunder Beast Watchers in front of him, not to mention Level 60 players, even Level 200 players couldn't break through unless they had a ten-man team composed of Level 200 fourth-order players.

"Forget it, I'll kill it and see what happens. Anyway, there are a few more Ghouls to experiment with." Shi Feng couldn't figure out the problem after a long time and eventually had the third-order demon kill the Ghoul.

As soon as the Ghoul died, it turned into a pile of rotten flesh and green liquid. In addition, it dropped some silver coins and other things, which were no different from the Ghouls he had killed before.

"Hmm, this is..."