Whoosh!
When the Berserker man whose ID was Divine Nation, Chiyou took off his mask and revealed his face, the Divine Nation players present...
Some were shocked!
Some were confused!
Some had no idea what was going on!
Divine Nation Player A: "Th-this… isn't this our former president of the Ling Corporation, President Chen?"
Divine Nation Player B: "Who? Who's President Chen? I've only been at the company for two months, so I don't know him. Can someone fill me in?"
Divine Nation Player C: "Chen Feng! I was already there when President Chen was in charge, so I count as one of the company veterans! He's President Ling's biological uncle. Five years ago, he was the boss of the original company, but he was sent to prison because he persecuted President Ling. Later, the company also came under President Ling's name."
Divine Nation Player D: "I heard that all the money Chen Feng used to establish the company came from President Ling doing advertisements! And despite that, he actually had the nerve to betray his own niece?"
Divine Nation Player E: "So how did he get out? And he'd actually been right beside us this whole time. I never noticed him!"
Compared to the high spirits he had five years ago, Chen Feng was clearly much more haggard now. He gave Ling Xue a provocative smile.
"Long time no see, President Ling."
Seeing her biological uncle, Chen Feng, Ling Xue felt none of the warmth one would normally feel upon seeing a relative.
She involuntarily recalled that night five years ago, on her eighteenth birthday, when Chen Feng deliberately got her drunk and almost allowed her to be harmed.
Even now, recalling it still left her shaken.
"When did you sneak in?", Ling Xue forced herself to regain her composure and questioned him.
"Ever since Boss Lonely Island got me out of prison two years ago, I've been here the whole time! I just changed to a fake identity," Chen Feng smiled calmly, "I've been lying low in the company for so long, and you never even noticed."
"Do you know why the company has been losing money on every project it's done over the past two years?"
Hearing this, Lin Miaomiao suddenly realized and pointed at Chen Feng as she cursed, "So it was all your fucking doing!"
"So, Xiaoxue, you're still too young! You're not suited to managing a company."
As he spoke, a sharp edge suddenly appeared in Chen Feng's eyes.
"Biding my time, all for today!"
"Everything I lost, I'm going to take it all back!"
Saying this, Chen Feng shouted to the surrounding Divine Nation Guild players, "There's something you may not know, because your President Ling has been hiding it from you."
"The Ling Corporation has suffered losses of over ten billion in the past two years."
"The company's entire financial situation is already on the verge of total collapse."
"Seeing as most of you are also longtime employees of the company, I'll give you a chance."
"Are you going to continue following your President Ling, or follow me? Anyone who chooses to follow me now will get double the salary they receive from the Ling Corporation."
As soon as Chen Feng said this, the Divine Nation Guild erupted.
"Is what President Chen said true? The company really lost this much? Wouldn't that mean it could go bankrupt at any time?"
"Double salary if we join President Chen! That's pretty tempting! Brothers, what do you think?"
"I'm not leaving, anyway. I've followed President Ling for five years! Besides, even if the company really has lost this much, President Ling has never docked our wages. She still pays what she should. I'm staying with the Ling Corporation! I'll follow Guild Master Ming Yuexin to the death!"
"I have to leave, brothers! I can't help it. I still have a whole family to support. I need money!"
"But Chen Feng just got out of prison, and he doesn't even have a company. Does he have the money to pay us double salaries? Could he just be making empty promises to trick us into going over?"
"He probably doesn't have the money, but the big shot behind him, Boss Lonely Island, definitely does! Didn't they say he invested over ten billion in the Ling Corporation? Anyone who can casually make such a huge investment must be a super-rich tycoon! If we follow President Chen, we're actually following him."
People were ultimately practical.
After all, no one would turn down money.
Therefore, the Divine Nation Guild instantly split into two camps.
More than seventy percent of everyone present chose to side with Chen Feng.
Only thirty percent chose to continue following Ling Xue.
And even those seventy percent were filled with guilt, "Sorry, President Ling. I have a family that depends on me. I have no choice…"
"Me too. I really have no choice…"
Ling Xue held no resentment.
Instead, she said, "I'm the one who owes you."
"If I get the chance in the future, I'll make it up to all of you."
"The future?", Chen Feng sneered, "I'm afraid you won't have that chance!"
With his new position, Chen Feng immediately pointed at Ling Xue and ordered the seventy percent of the Divine Nation Guild players who had sided with him, "Take them out!"
However, after he said this, no one around him moved.
Chen Feng's old face immediately turned red, leaving him extremely embarrassed.
"What do you mean?"
"You didn't hear my order?!"
At the same time, even though the guild had been split apart, Ling Xue still did not change her plan because of this.
"Kill the Ghost King! Take the Soul Refining Orb!"
"Yes!"
With Ling Xue's order, the Divine Nation players who had chosen to continue following her responded as one.
This formed a stark contrast with the silence that followed Chen Feng's order.
The next moment, the thirty percent of Divine Nation Guild players who had chosen to follow Ling Xue picked up their weapons and charged toward Qin Ming, Ji Ningshuang, Chen Feng, and the others.
"Looking for death!", Super God Athena drew her blade and rose to meet them, but Demon Knight Lonely Island stopped her with one hand.
"I'll deal with them."
"Yes! Godfather!"
Lonely Island calmly took a magic scroll out of his bag.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The instant he crushed the magic scroll.
Countless bolts of lightning rained down from the sky.
Centered on Lonely Island, the attack range covered a radius of 500 yards around him.
At once, all the Divine Nation players within the lightning's attack range had blood-red damage numbers pop above their headsm...
-11346!
-10673!
-10999!
This time, He Xiao and Sun Yang were even more certain.
"This is the E-rank magic scroll! Lightning Strike!"
"But doesn't E-rank Lightning Strike only deal 30% area damage? I have a Lightning Strike scroll in my bag too. When I use it to farm monsters, it can only deal two or three thousand AOE damage at a time. How can his E-rank Lightning Strike deal so much damage?"
"Besides, he's a Demon Knight! Aren't knights' damage supposed to be pretty low?"
"It's his talent!"
While resisting the Lightning Strike attacks, Zhao Jun said in a deep voice, "I saw it on the forums before. There's a talent in the Oracle world whose effect is to increase the power of magic scrolls when they're used."
"He has the SS-rank talent, Demon Dance!"
"Its effect is that whenever any magic scroll is used, its effect is increased tenfold!"
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding players immediately gasped.
"Holy shit! Just like President Ling, he's another SS-rank talent holder!"
"According to big-data statistics, there are only two or three SS-rank talent holders across all the major national servers of Oracle right now. All of Great Xia's SS-rank talent holders have gathered in the Inferno City?"
"This guy… is too strong! I can't take it anymore!"
E-rank Lightning Strike: After use, deals physical/magical damage equal to 30% of Attack Power to all enemies within a radius of 50 yards.
After receiving the tenfold enhancement from the SS-rank talent Demon Dance: Deals damage equal to 300% of Attack Power to all enemies within a radius of 500 yards!
As Lonely Island continuously used Lightning Strike.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Countless bolts of lightning continuously covered the Soul Beast Mountains.
Under the sweep of large numbers of five-digit damage values.
In less than ten seconds....
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Over a thousand streaks of white light shot into the sky across the vast Soul Beast Mountains!
Those thirty percent of Divine Nation Guild players who had not submitted to Chen Feng, including Ling Xue, Lin Miaomiao, Sun Yang, Zhao Jun, He Xiao, and the others, without exception, they were all killed.
At this moment, the Genesis Guild players and the Divine Nation Guild players who had sided with Chen Feng all turned shocked gazes toward Lonely Island.
"What terrifying strength!"
"So this is the power of an SS-rank talent?"
"So strong!"
With the obstacles cleared, Super God Athena instructed the players of the two major guilds, Genesis and Divine Nation, "Continue searching for the Soul Refining Orb!"
"Yes!"