Chapter 380: Chapter 361: The Return of the Winged Race
"They’ve retreated, Divine Court’s people have retreated."
"They actually returned to the city, what does this mean, are they not fighting anymore?"
Someone couldn’t help but feel baffled and said:
"Just now, they had a desperate stance, how come they’ve decided to leave all of a sudden?"
Someone jested on the side:
"What? You still want to keep fighting?"
The player from the Holy Hall Guild who just spoke quickly shook his head and said:
"I’ve just managed to level up to 33, I really don’t want to lose more levels."
Outside White Tiger City, the guilds that were still fighting fiercely a moment ago called it quits after that earth-shattering dragon’s roar, with the withdrawal of Divine Court, Heavenly Dao Alliance, and other guilds.
With the withdrawal of guilds like Divine Court, the largest guild war in history thus ended.
Although it was the guilds on Divine Court’s side that first withdrew from the brawl,
for guilds like Shengshi, they felt no joy of victory, but rather a sense of relief,
because any discerning person could clearly see that there was no real winner in this massive brawl.
Neither side had gained any real advantage from this war.
Almost every member of the major guilds dropped a level on average in this battle.
With the end of the brawl, the major guilds in the Hua Country also underwent a historic reshuffling.
Among them, the unexpected rise of the Divine Court Guild was beyond anyone’s expectations.
And nearly ten guilds, including Heavenly Dao Alliance, Qingyi Pavilion, and Tingyu Pavilion, announced alliances with Divine Court Guild almost instantly.
At the same time, Shengshi Dynasty and Proud Sanctuary, along with Famous Clan and Ice and Snow Illusion City, also announced a strategic alliance.
Thus, the Hua Country War Zone formed a tripartite situation for the first time, with two powers competing for supremacy while one side remained neutral.
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In Ice Wind Valley, the moment Lin Yi’s mission was announced as completed, the originally devastated Ice Wind Valley began to transform visibly into something renewed.
The dilapidated buildings, like magic, restored to their original form in the blink of an eye.
A brand new village revealed itself before everyone’s eyes, leaving them all in shock:
"What is happening here?"
Looking at the neatly arranged buildings and the clean streets threading through them, everyone found it very curious:
"This is so incredible!"
"Where is this?"
At this moment, the thick snow beneath Lin Yi and the others had vanished in an instant, replaced by paving stones beneath their feet.
The sky brightened the instant Steglin died, though the large snowflakes still seemed to show no sign of stopping, continuing to fall on this newly made village.
In the center of the giant square before everyone, a teleportation array radiating profound light suddenly appeared and stood there.
The next moment, the light on the teleportation array flickered continuously, and a group of winged people began to emerge one after another from it.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood the purpose of this village:
"Winged Race territory!"
Under their amazed gazes, after these winged people exited the teleportation array and saw the surrounding sights, each of them couldn’t help but weep with joy.
Tianzhi, looking at these winged beings, felt a bit surprised and said:
"Are these Winged Race?"
"It seems that aside from having an extra pair of wings compared to us, they’re not much different!"
Meanwhile, the simple-minded Wang Zixin pulled Zhang Xinying’s hand and exclaimed quietly with excitement:
"Wow, Sister Xinying, so many angel brothers and sisters!"
Shuaidiao Zha, on one side, sincerely sighed:
"It’s foreseeable that players from this race are definitely going to explode in numbers."
Indeed, after all, they are born with wings and can fly!
Just this inducement alone is already almost irresistible for ordinary people.
What’s more, the looks of these winged people are not much inferior to those of the Elf Race.
At the same time, the available professions for the Winged Race (Warrior, Archer, Priest) are fairly traditional, and definitely, many more people will choose them compared to other races.
As for the biggest problem of the Winged Race compared to other races, it’s probably the need to change their level to 35.
Of course, this issue is not an issue for those who like this race.
Xiao He suddenly laughed on one side and said:
"There were so many comments on the forum saying how unfriendly the Succubus Race is to male players, now those people must be glad they didn’t choose Succubus Race."
Tianzhi teased Xiao He from the side and said:
"Why, do you want to change to Winged Race?"
Xiao He glanced at the chains in his hand, smiled, and said:
"No, I think I’m good as I am now."
For players with hidden professions, choosing to change races means losing their hidden profession.
So neither Xiao He nor Shuaidiao Zha, although they like the Winged Race, will give up their hidden professions for this liking.
Especially since Shuaidiao Zha is incredibly fond of his ’Violent Dharma King’, there’s no way he’d be willing to lose it.
Moreover, as long as you get [Wings of Flight] in a dungeon, there’s actually not much difference from being this race of winged people.
However, the next scene shocked everyone, as these winged people lined up neatly, looking towards Lin Yi’s side with excited faces.
Yulia and Krein stood out from the crowd and respectfully said to Lin Yi:
"Clan member Krein (Yulia), pays respects to the Clan Leader!"
The winged people behind followed suit and knelt down in unison, loudly declaring:
"Welcome, new Clan Leader!"
Tian Ci and the others were stunned, exclaiming:
"What’s going on here..."
"Boss Feng is actually the Clan Leader of the Winged Race? Wow..."
Everyone glanced at each other, feeling that Lin Yi always managed to provide such delightful surprises.
They wondered if Lin Yi, as the Clan Leader, could perhaps pull some strings for everyone within the Winged Race...
Of course, Lin Yi was unaware of what Tian Ci and the others were thinking and simply said to the winged people:
"Please, rise."
Amidst the grateful voices of the winged people, Lin Yi allowed them to move about freely.
It was clear that the winged people had been stifled on that small island; now they were like birds just freed from their cages, cheering heartily.
Similarly, the snow outside the settlement was occupied by young winged people, joyously rolling around in the snow, having snowball fights, enjoying themselves immensely.
For them, this kind of scene was likely a first.
This feeling was akin to when Lin Yi first saw such heavy snowfall, equally exciting.
From this moment on, it could be said that the Winged Race officially returned to the ranks of the Hundred Races.
It was only at this point that Lin Yi noticed that the average level within the Winged Race was over Level 40, and the highest-level winged person was the sole elder of the Winged Race, named Belte Krueger, at Level 80.
For comparison, the City Lord of Black Tortoise City, Aiborn, was only Level 75, and the Great Elder of the Elf Race was merely Level 70!
Level 80 was almost considered a demigod because at Level 85, one would face a Divine Tribulation.
After overcoming the Divine Tribulation, they would open up a domain and ascend to the Divine Level, becoming a true divine-powerful being.
Now it seemed that the Winged Race was undoubtedly the strongest among these returning Hundred Races.
With the return of the Winged Race, similar to the Elf Race and Cyclops Race, Lin Yi, as the Clan Leader, naturally took a backseat role, promptly entrusting the decision-making power of the Winged Race entirely to this elder.
Originally, Lin Yi planned to first activate the Winged Race’s Reputation Exchange Mall, but was prompted that it would only be available once the Winged Race opened to the public.
This put an end to Lin Yi’s curiosity about what the Winged Race’s prestige could be exchanged for.
Fortunately, it was just a matter of waiting another six days.
The day the Winged Race opened would also be the same day the Floating City was launched.
Lin Yi was also eager to see what degree of power he, as City Lord of the Floating Main City, could wield in the Floating City.
Seeing that matters here had temporarily concluded, Lin Yi originally intended to go out and help the Shengshi team.
But when the group arrived at the canyon entrance, they found that the skirmish there had already ended quickly, leaving them puzzled.
Lin Yi instinctively turned to Shuaidiao Zha and asked:
"How did it end up?"
"Hold on, let me ask."
After a moment, Shuaidiao Zha:
"The situation seems a bit complicated. How about we head to the Mutated Cave instance, and I’ll explain it to you slowly?"
At this moment, Shuaidiao Zha was still quite preoccupied with the Wings of Flight.
Lin Yi, however, said:
"Let’s wait a moment."
Taking this opportunity, Lin Yi distributed the pets he exchanged from Goryeo to Zhang Xinying and the others.
Zhang Xinying’s Rare·Unicorn Sacred Beast.
Stable as a Mountain’s Rare·Frenzied Demon Bear.
And Shuaidiao Zha’s Rare·Double-headed Flame Bird.
Holding the pet egg, Shuaidiao Zha looked quite excited and said:
"Thanks, Boss Feng."
Stable as a Mountain was also very satisfied with his pet:
"Thank you."
Zhang Xinying was particularly enamored:
"Should we go hatch the pets now?"
After the Monster Siege War, everyone else chose to exchange for pet eggs, so now everyone had a rare pet of their own.
Lin Yi nodded:
"You guys go hatch the pets first, and then we’ll proceed to the instance."
Since hatching rare pets required 36 hours, the sooner they could hatch them, the better.
The group wasted no time and returned to the city.
"Boss Feng, wait a moment."
At this point, Tian Ci suddenly stopped Lin Yi, pulling him aside with a serious expression and said:
"Something happened."
Lin Yi frowned and asked:
"What happened?"
Tian Ci sighed and said:
"My friend just sent me a message saying that Luoshen Liunian seems to be in trouble. He wants to see you in reality and has something to tell you."
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Today’s update is complete.