Even though most people that start worldbuilding aim to create a strong-high-ranking world, there are people that try to do different things with their worlds.

Some recreate the worlds of their favorite books or series, while others are interested in creating beautiful landscapes.

Others create competitions with their friends or work colleagues in which they have to create worlds with specific characteristics and see which one is better in a given field.

These competitions are popular in offices, where workers will create leagues between themselves and bet to see who pays for the drinks the next time they go to a bar.

Even though this may sound like an idea any boss would hate, in truth, it has been found to help bond with colleagues while creating healthy competition in the work environment.

—Extract from the Builder’s Magazine #24, "The Other Uses of Worldbuilding."

In a few instants, the battle situation changed drastically.

Not only had the cultivators lost an important ally and a buff to their troops, but the undead also became stronger now that the snake had absorbed the eagle's body.

In the first exchange of blows, the undead's strength became clear. The zombie dwarfs were faster and more skilled than the previous ones. It was almost as if they were still alive. Besides that, they were wearing metallic armor and using weapons, so they were both more difficult to kill and deadlier.

After that, with one side losing its golden aura and the other gaining a dark one, the undead began to turn the tables of battle, as a dwarf could evenly fight a cultivator.

"I'm starting to like this more," Zack said as he tried to cut an undead but got his attack parried.

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"Yeah, I might even need to fight seriously," Owald replied while laughing.

After he said that, two air scythes appeared on his two arms, with which he created two air slashes that heavily injured two dwarfs.

Seeing that their leader was getting serious, the rest of the Guburg cultivators began to use their best techniques, many of them using some tattoos.

With their companions doing their best, the Yuoko decided to do the same. Almost all the Yuoko cultivators began to release large amounts of life-energy into their bodies, becoming temporally faster and stronger.

With that increase in power, the undead dwarfs began to fall little by little.

"Emul ed etrom!" said a voice from above the city wall.

In front of the skeleton began to form a fireball, which in a few seconds flew at high speed towards the Esvert cultivators, which forced a few of them to stop targeting the snake to block that attack.

A stone wall appeared between the group of cultivators and the fireball, keeping them safe, but the snake took advantage of the situation and shot an energy ray toward the summoner that was riding the boar before starting flying in its direction.

The summoner reacted by drawing a card from his deck.

"Space Breaking Lunge, activate!" the kid shouted.

Following his words, the boar's tusks began to shine with silver light before it lunged into the empty air in front of it. This caused the space in front of it to become shattered before a hole in the space itself appeared.

The hole absorbed the energy ray before gradually disappearing as if it never existed.

While this is happening, the black dragon spits dark flames on the snake's trajectory, forcing it to evade.

At that point, the battle could be decided in favor of either side, but a large amount of energy began to accumulate on the cultivator's backline.

A group of Esverts formed a circle, and with Ethan in the middle, they worked together to create a spell. Tens of minds guided the energy to create an enormous ball of fire and stone that they threw toward the city wall.

"Emul ed etrom!" repeated the skeleton as another fireball appeared in front of him.

This new fireball began to shoot towards the cultivator's projectile, but it dispersed without being able to divert its trajectory. The stone ball collided with the wall, exploding into fire and stone shards that flew in all directions.

The fire reached the skeleton, making its book and tunic catch fire, while some of the stone shards reached him, breaking some of his bones and making him fall from above the wall.

"The next one is going to be for the snake. Win me some more time and I will crush it like a cockroach," Ethan said with a cold smile.