As time passed, William and Cedric, the two apex predators on the battlefield, found that the range of their summoned creatures was expanding, gradually being spotted by more and more competitors.

  Faced with the sheer number of summoned creatures, all the other participants made the same choice: to retreat to areas farther from the other two's summons.

  This led to a situation where all the competitors in the entire battlefield were converging toward the central axis of the divine domain.

  Through the Thunder Dragon sent out for reconnaissance, William also noticed the unusual movement pattern of the competitors.

  Upon seeing this, William quickly deduced the possible cause of the situation.

  He realized that there was likely a demigod or an alliance in the divine domain that was strong enough to crush the other competitors, and they too were conducting large-scale sweeps.

  After this thought crossed his mind, William immediately thought of Cedric's arrogant demeanor.

  "Could it be that delusional freak? I wonder what kind of summoned creature he has," William thought, feeling an ominous premonition.

  At that moment, the Thunder Dragon, which had the largest reconnaissance range, suddenly lit up a large red spot on the map in William’s mind.

  This instantly caught his attention. As a high-altitude scout, Thunder Dragons had a vast field of view. Typically, when they spotted other participants, the red spot on the map would be small. However, this time, the red spot was massive, indicating that the number of summoned creatures was at least several hundred times that of an average participant’s.

  William immediately switched his view to the Thunder Dragon's reconnaissance and looked down from the sky. He saw that the ground was swarming with skeletons, forming a vast undead army slowly advancing toward the center of the plain.

  "Damn it… not again, this disgusting race," William said, his face twisted as if he had eaten bitter melon.

  Having fought against the undead before, he vividly remembered that battle. Both undead and his own swarm of super-excellent insects relied on quantity as their core strategy.

  William was confident that his insect swarm could easily overpower these skeletal cannon fodder in terms of quality. However, the problem was that fighting these creatures yielded minimal rewards.

  A bunch of bone sticks with no flesh, and they often carried various plague viruses. Although this wasn't much of an issue for his enhanced immune system insects, William had learned his lesson after the deadly black fungi incident. He had made extensive upgrades to the swarm's immune system and had also studied undead summons in detail. The viruses carried by undead summons were usually no more dangerous than the average type.

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  The super-excellent fungi he had encountered before were an anomaly, likely from a demigod or some special natural product in the divine domain.

  At this moment, Cedric, who was controlling the undead army, suddenly revealed his demigod projection and looked up toward the direction of the high-altitude Thunder Dragon.

  Having sensed a subtle form of observation earlier, Cedric locked onto the Thunder Dragon as soon as he manifested his demigod projection.

  "Is that... a dragon? No, it should be some kind of sub-dragon species."

  "Looks like luck’s on my side. One of the participants actually has a sub-dragon summoned creature. This is great."

  Cedric's eyes gleamed with greed. The stronger the creature, the easier it was to transform into high-quality undead when turned into a zombie.

  Without hesitation, large numbers of skeletal bats flew into the air, desperately flapping their wings to gain speed. They formed groups and steadily moved toward the Thunder Dragon in the sky, attempting to surround it.

  Seeing this, William smirked.

  "Hah, with that speed, it’ll be eating dust soon."

  The Thunder Dragon’s body suddenly glowed with a layer of electric armor. With a powerful flap of its wings, it accelerated, breaking its stationary state and diving through the gaps in the skeletal bat encirclement.

  In an almost provocative manner, it performed a 360-degree flip in mid-air, smashing a cluster of skeletal bats that crossed its path. The shattered bones scattered like petals falling from the sky, landing in the undead army below.

  After smashing a few skeletal bats, the Thunder Dragon didn’t fly away. Instead, it began descending, maintaining a high speed above the undead army, performing sharp turns at large angles.

  Although the skeletal bats tried to chase it by flapping their wings, their speed was insufficient, and they could only follow the Thunder Dragon’s tail without causing any harm.

  A sharp cry echoed from the Thunder Dragon, a blatant provocation toward Cedric’s demigod projection.

  "A mere sub-dragon summoned creature... What gives you the courage to provoke my undead army?" Cedric’s eyes flashed coldly, and his booming voice expanded rapidly.

  As his words ended, black-robed liches within the undead army quickly ascended into the air.

  Compared to the bare-bones skeletons, these liches, hidden beneath their magnificent black robes, resembled mummified corpses with green soul flames burning in their eyes. Holding massive white-bone staffs, they quickly formed a floating circular magic array in the sky.

  "Finally bringing out some real tricks, huh? I wonder what it'll be."

  Seeing this, William became both cautious and expectant.

  The Thunder Dragon’s electric armor glowed brighter.

  As the magic formation in the sky completed, within mere seconds, a massive wave of energy began swirling within the array.

  Then, over 3,000 greenish-black ethereal energy beams shot out, forming a barrage that covered the area where the Thunder Dragon was.

  The ethereal energy beams hit within moments, but the Thunder Dragon didn’t hesitate. Its electric armor flared up, and its speed tripled. With a burst of acceleration, it barely managed to escape the attack's range.

  However, before William could even relax, the ethereal energy beams continued to rain down like a storm, relentlessly pursuing the Thunder Dragon, forcing it to perform high-speed evasive maneuvers to avoid the incoming fire.

  At this point, the Thunder Dragon, still maintaining its lightning-fast strike mode, was in grave danger as it navigated the sky, dodging attacks left and right.