The remaining two people whose names had been called also immediately controlled their demigod incarnations and moved toward the chief referee.

  During this process, all the contestants who had participated in the match looked at William and Cedric with eyes full of reverence as they went to receive their awards.

  Among those gazes, the ones directed at William even carried a trace of fear.

  This was even before the chief referee had announced the detailed stats of the match.

  Everyone knew these two were strong and could feel the huge gap in strength.

  But only after the gap was quantified did they truly gain a clearer understanding of just how powerful these two were.

  The number of familiars the two of them had taken down during the entire match—

  was almost equal to the total number of familiars sent into the battlefield by all other contestants combined.

  Especially William—not only had he eliminated so many familiars,

  but many of the players who were eliminated early had personally witnessed that by the time William exited the match, he had lost less than forty percent of his familiars.

  The sheer number of transcendent-level familiars he had...

  In their minds, even the strength William had left was probably enough to wipe the floor with all of them again, even if they teamed up.

  Such a massive power gap—how could they not feel fear?

  William, who felt nothing about this, wasn’t even the slightest bit concerned with what the other contestants were thinking.

  His mind was entirely focused on the prizes.

  It took him only a few seconds to leap over to the chief referee, where he stood at full attention with a serious face, ready to receive his reward.

  Seeing William had already arrived first, the other two had no choice but to speed up and hurry over to the chief referee as well.

  Once all three had gathered, the chief referee simply offered a brief congratulation for their achievements.

  Then he directly pulled out three golden sealed cards and handed them out as prizes.

  Seeing the golden sealed card being offered, William hurried to receive it.

  He immediately scanned it with his divine sense.

  “Fifty million divine power, no more, no less.”

  After confirming the amount of divine power sealed within the card, a satisfied smile naturally appeared on William’s face.

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  He quickly stored the sealed card within himself. Just as he was about to turn and leave, still looking quite pleased, he was suddenly stopped by the referee’s voice.

  “William, wait a moment.”

  Upon hearing the referee’s voice, William immediately halted and turned to look at him, his face full of confusion at being singled out.

  “Hehe, your prize isn’t completely handed out yet.”

  “As the champion of the global tournament, aside from the divine power awarded by the civilization, you’re also entitled to—”

  “Select one rare resource from the prize vault at the logistics center on Elvia Star, located on the Divine Exchange Continent.”

  “Here’s your redemption code. Keep it safe. I won’t go over the retrieval process—you should already be familiar with it.”

  Saying that, the chief referee handed over a grey sealed card to William.

  Of course, William carefully accepted it without hesitation.

  But as he infused his divine sense into the grey sealed card, he couldn’t detect anything.

  It felt like complete chaos inside the card.

  Looking puzzled, he raised his head and gave the referee a questioning glance, suspecting the card might be a dud.

  Catching William’s confused look, the referee chuckled and explained:

  “This is a specially encrypted sealed card. The contents stored inside can’t be scanned by divine sense until it’s activated with divine power.”

  “This is to prevent others from discovering the redemption code and stealing the prize.”

  “Once you infuse divine power into this card, you’ll receive the redemption code, along with the coordinates for where to redeem your prize.”

  After hearing the explanation, William didn’t hesitate—he immediately activated the grey sealed card in front of the referee.

  As he infused it with divine power, the grey sealed card turned into specks of light and dispersed into the void.

  At the same time, William received a message from the card as it vanished.

  The contents were very simple: a redemption code, and the location coordinates for the redemption site.

  Once he memorized everything instantly, William looked back up at the referee.

  His eyes glinted with excitement as he thought to himself: “Nice! An extra bonus. Is there more? C’mon, give me another one.”

  Seeing the look on William’s face, the referee gently waved his hand and, still smiling, said softly, “That’s all the prizes.”

  When William heard that there were no more rewards, the look of excitement in his eyes quickly faded.

  He gave a polite thank-you to the referee and was just about to return to his god domain's docking point—when he was once again stopped.

  “William, one more thing I need to inform you of.”

  “Whether or not you intend to participate in the Sector Tournament ten years from now, you have nine years to consider and give a definitive answer.”

  “Each planet’s participants need to be registered with the civilization in advance for strength verification.”

  Hearing this for the first time, William immediately picked up on the key part of the referee’s words.

  With a suspicious look, he asked:

  “Strength verification? I thought winning the global tournament meant I could go straight to the Sector Tournament?”

  Seeing William’s confused face, the referee directly addressed his question.

  “The Sector Tournament happens after a filtering stage—it’s not something you automatically qualify for just by winning the global championship.”

  “You still need to undergo a strength evaluation. It’s more like an invitational.”