Chapter 1 The Ancient God's Fragment

Floating in mid-air, the Ancient God's Fragment, shimmering with golden light, absorbed the purple-cyan mist as if a traveler, parched for days in the desert, had finally found an oasis, frantically sucking in the surrounding purple-cyan mist.

As the purple-cyan mist was continuously absorbed, the divine inscriptions engraved on the Ancient God's Fragment gradually became complete, immediately causing the surrounding mana to swarm towards it.

After a full ten seconds, the divine inscriptions on the Ancient God's Fragment were completely restored, and the pressure emanating from it suddenly increased by a large margin.

"Such a strong pressure!" Shi Feng looked at the now vastly different Ancient God's Fragment, feeling slightly excited.

The increase in divine might meant that the Ancient God's Fragment had also been enhanced, and if it had been enhanced, it meant that it had likely evolved successfully.

Immediately, Shi Feng opened the Ancient God's Fragment to check it out.

Ancient God's Fragment, Fifth Page, Epic Item. An ancient page, though weathered by the passage of time, still retains indelible divine inscriptions. The damaged inscriptions have been completely repaired by the Holy Grail, possessing incredible power.

Skill One: Heroic Spirit Summoning. Sacrifice soul power to forcibly awaken eighteen ancient heroic spirit warriors to fight for you. The summoned eighteen heroic spirit warriors are one tier higher than the player, up to Tier 3. Cooldown: three natural days. (Weak souls cannot perform this summoning.)

Skill Two: Soul Absorption. Can absorb the souls of half-dead creatures, with a high probability of coalescing into a drop of Soul Essence. Cooldown: three hours. (The more powerful the creature, the easier it is to coalesce into Soul Essence.)

Skill Three: Soul Enhancement. By consuming a large amount of Soul Essence, a creature's soul can be sublimated. Cooldown: three hours. (The stronger the soul of the creature being enhanced, the more Soul Essence is required.)

Skill Four: Divine Inscription Resonance. Automatically senses Ancient God's Fragments within a radius of 1000 yards.

This item is soul-bound, non-transferable, cannot be stored in a warehouse, and has a certain chance of being dropped upon death. (Guaranteed to drop if dying in a soul-weakened state.)

"How is it still Epic-grade?" Shi Feng looked at the data displayed by the Ancient God's Fragment, feeling very surprised.

Based purely on the power the Ancient God's Fragment possessed, even fragments of some Legendary items might not be comparable. In fact, if the various super forces knew about the current power of the Ancient God's Fragment, they would probably be willing to exchange several fragments of Legendary items for it.

But even with such power, it was still an Epic-grade item. It was truly unbelievable.

"It seems that if I want to advance, I really need to collect more Ancient God's Fragments."

Shi Feng thought about it and concluded that this was the only possibility. As a divine book written by the ancient gods, the Ancient God's Fragment possessed power that could truly destroy the heavens and the earth. It was naturally somewhat unrealistic to expect a single fragment to be upgraded to a fragment of a Legendary item purely through the power of the Holy Grail.

However, Shi Feng was satisfied with this.

The enhanced Ancient God's Fragment had greatly improved in terms of summoning heroic spirits. This single skill alone could create an army, not to mention that it had also greatly improved in terms of absorbing and enhancing Soul Essence, exceeding his expectations.

The most important point was that the Ancient God's Fragment possessed the power to sense other Ancient God's Fragments. With this effect, finding other fragments would be much easier. When he could gather a complete one, the improvement to Zero Wing would definitely be more significant than having three or five fragments of Legendary items.

Afterward, Shi Feng put away the Ancient God's Fragment, preparing to enhance the souls of the mithril guards standing behind him.

Mithril-grade guards were not like monsters such as Anna and Kite. The Soul Essence required for the first enhancement was three drops. For Shi Feng, who had already collected over a hundred drops, it was entirely possible to enhance all sixteen mithril guards once.

At that time, with the power of sixteen Fine-Gold guards, plus Kite and Anna's strength, they could definitely rampage through the Demon Wolf Mountain Range.

Immediately, Shi Feng began to chant the incantation towards the first mithril-grade guard.

Suddenly, a five-layered magic array appeared beneath the feet of the mithril-grade elementalist holding a staff. This five-layered magic array was obviously much more powerful than the previous one, not only frantically absorbing mana from the surrounding space, but also absorbing the mana essence from the void at two to three times the previous speed.

The condensed mana essence, as large as a fist, was directly poured into the elementalist's forehead, causing the elementalist to let out a bone-chilling roar.

Although it was very painful, Shi Feng could clearly feel the elementalist's aura rising.

After持续了four or five seconds, this rising aura stopped, and the feeling the elementalist gave off was completely different.

If the level 103 mithril-grade elementalist had only been a slight threat to him before, now he had to treat this Tier 3 Great Mage with caution.

"Improved so much!?" Shi Feng pulled up the Great Mage's data panel, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Previously, the potential of this mithril-grade Great Mage was only 78, which was considered very good for a mithril-grade guard. After all, the potential value of a mithril-grade guard was only from 71 to 80 points, only three points away from reaching the threshold of Fine-Gold grade.

Based on his experience enhancing Kite, soul enhancement could improve potential by roughly two points. For a mithril-grade guard, it might improve by a bit more, but three or four points would be the absolute limit.

But now, the Great Mage's potential was actually as high as 83 points, an increase of a full five points, exceeding the threshold of a Fine-Gold guard.

It should be known that every additional point of potential greatly improved a guard. Now, 83 points of potential was considered a guard with good potential even among Fine-Gold guards. At the same level and tier, they could absolutely suppress those peak experts.

Thinking of this, Shi Feng couldn't help but get excited.

If he had previously been very happy to be able to obtain sixteen mithril-grade guards with good potential, then now, with the power of the Ancient God's Fragment, those mithril-grade guards with a potential of 76 could also become Fine-Gold guards. In that case, Zero Wing would definitely have many more Fine-Gold guards.

Immediately, Shi Feng had Melancholic Smile immediately send those mithril-grade guards with a potential of 76 to the meditation room to wait.

"Guild Leader, those guards are currently stationed in Silverwing Town, specifically guarding Silverwing Town and doing some patrols. If we summon them here, it will probably take quite a while," Melancholic Smile said.

As for the mithril-grade guards that Shi Feng requested, she had always kept those guards stationed in White River City, while most of the other mithril-grade guards she had collected were assigned to Silverwing Town. After all, the combat power of mithril-grade guards was not low. Once they reached level 100, they could smoothly advance to Tier 3 professions, which had a considerable deterrent effect in the turbulent Orc Empire.

"It's okay, just call them all over," Shi Feng said, not caring about waiting a bit longer. After all, it would also take time for him to enhance the other guards.

Now, the Ancient God's Fragment required three hours for each soul enhancement. Enhancing the sixteen guards in front of him would take a full natural day, so he had plenty of time to wait for those direct guards stationed in Silverwing Town.

"Alright, then I'll make the arrangements now." Melancholic Smile didn't think too much and immediately contacted the core members of Zero Wing who owned mithril-grade guards.