Shopkeeper Ye gestured for the crowd to continue trying to break the box. He would present the reward to anyone who could open it. While the offer was tempting, the difficulty was immense.
The box was supposed to be sealed with a fifth-grade Divine Rune, but who would have thought that even a Divine Rune Master couldn't get through it? Finding a Divine Rune Grandmaster to break the seal, however, was another matter entirely. Such experts were exceedingly rare.
The National Preceptor of the Netherworld Empire was theoretically a Divine Rune Grandmaster. In reality, he wasn't quite there yet and could only be considered a half-step Divine Rune Grandmaster. The only true Divine Rune Grandmaster was the Spirit Race Ancestor, and even he was just at the junior level.
Thus, reaching the level of a Divine Rune Grandmaster was incredibly difficult. There were several Divine Rune Masters present, but not a single Divine Rune Grandmaster.
