Among the spectators, there were quite a few who shared the same thoughts as Jake.

  Energy beams shot across the sky, explosions roared on the ground, and the battlefield was filled with relentless, all-out combat.

  The intensity of the war had been elevated to an entirely new level.

  For most demigods whose divine wars were still stuck in the cold weapon era, such a terrifying and high-intensity battlefield was enough to leave them utterly disheartened.

  With William's all-out eruption, the high-quality undead army led by Cedric was almost completely wiped out.

  The corpse mages in the rear formation were entirely annihilated.

  The skeletal knight legions on both flanks had their formations blown to pieces by the fierce bombardment of the suicide leapers, with fewer than 30 million surviving.

  Now, they were surrounded and hunted by the mutated leapers and spinecrawlers — it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out.

  The massive cannon-fodder skeleton army, after enduring a brutal bombing from nearly 10 million suicide leapers, lost nearly half of its numbers.

  The hidden skeleton mages among them were specifically targeted.

  These mages, wielding bone staffs and concealed within the skeleton ranks, were picked out one by one by the Zerg’s endlessly enhanced visual tracking systems, and then singled out by the suicide leapers.

  One after another, the leapers dove in and exploded on them, not only eliminating the skeleton mages, but also wiping out large numbers of surrounding skeletons with their shockwaves and high temperatures.

  After the explosions and heat dissipated, the fewer than 800 million remaining low-level skeletons were effectively rendered defenseless in the face of the coordinated advance of the mutated leapers and spinecrawlers.

  The only remaining force with significant combat strength was the skyborne skeleton bat legion, still locked in aerial combat with the flying leapers.

  The thunder dragons, which had just freed themselves from their fight with the corpse mages, still retained nearly half their number.

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  Without hesitation, they flapped their wings and instantly accelerated, diving straight into the aerial battlefield.

  With bodies over 20 meters long and enveloped in lightning, these thunder dragons faced off against skeleton bats barely over a meter in size — a complete mismatch.

  With larger bodies, stronger defenses, and faster speeds, the fewer than 100,000 thunder dragons rampaged through the chaos like wolves among sheep.

  At their incredible speed, they didn’t even need complex maneuvers — simply crashing through was enough.

  Any skeleton bat that so much as brushed against them was instantly shattered, dead on contact.

  In an instant, the skeleton bat casualty rate skyrocketed with the arrival of the thunder dragons.

  Cedric, stunned by William’s full-force onslaught, went completely blank when his corpse mage formation was suddenly wiped out.

  It took a long while before he finally came to his senses.

  His demigod projection floated in the sky, his lips quivering, unable to utter a single word.

  As he watched his remaining undead forces being relentlessly exterminated, Cedric knew he had lost — and lost without any room for dispute.

  The arrogance on his face vanished, replaced with a pale, dazed expression.

  This battle, like a bucket of ice water poured over his head, not only sobered his inflated ego, but also crushed the pride he had held for so long.

  “Classmate… I… I admit defeat…”

  As Cedric’s surrendering will spread across the battlefield, all remaining undead gradually ceased their movements.

  Hearing Cedric's surrender, and seeing the undead no longer resist, William exhaled gently and pulled on the lines of faith, halting the swarm's advance.

  Under normal circumstances, William would never stop so easily against other races.

  But this time, his opponent was the undead — no flesh, no gear, utterly impoverished.

  Cedric had surrendered sincerely, and continuing the battle would bring no real benefit.

  On the contrary, if Cedric decided to go all out with nearly a billion undead still left, even in defeat, they wouldn’t retreat.

  The undead had no concept of morale collapse.

  Continuing the fight would only result in unnecessary losses for the already heavily-damaged swarm — a completely unprofitable outcome.

  As golden lights gathered in the sky, William’s own demigod projection appeared.

  With a calm expression, he looked at Cedric’s projection and slowly said:

  “Withdraw your army back to your god domain.”

  “I know you still have scattered skeleton followers on the field — you won’t be eliminated completely. Go back and wait for this match to end.”