Sword God in a World of Magic

Knock, knock, knock.

Someone knocked on a wooden door.

No answer came.

Creak.

The door opened slowly, and an immaculately dressed person stepped in. It was a man with white hair, but it was a bit difficult to discern his age. Even though he had white hair, which obviously came from old age, there were no wrinkles on his face. If one only looked at his face, one might believe that he was rather young.

However, appearances often deceived.

If someone heard of this person's age, they wouldn't be able to believe whoever told them.

The man looked around the room with professional eyes.

It was a small study filled with all kinds of books, scriptures, tomes, and papers. An unbelievably soft, violet carpet was strewn across the ground, and a cozy fire crackled in the fireplace.

The man's eyes looked at the back of the room.

Another man was sitting on a chair behind a mahogany desk. Several papers were strewn across the desk, and the man practically lay in his chair, his head looking upward.

The man at the door slightly shook his head and walked over.

Bang!

He slightly kicked the table.

"Oh, wha- huh? Oh, good morning, Wester," the man who had just been sleeping said after recovering from the shock. He was an old man with gentle facial features, and everyone that saw him would believe him to be a nice grandpa.

"It's evening, sir," Wester, the butler, said to the old man.

"Oh, already?" the old man asked in confusion as he looked around his room. "I was working on this year's reward for the Clan Tournament. Guess I lost track of time," he said.

"Mhm," Wester uttered, deciding not to comment on how he had found his master napping.

"What? You don't believe me?" the old man asked with an offended expression. "Look! It's over there," he said.

A tome started to float from the desk and stopped in front of Wester.

Wester took the tome, opened it, and scanned through it.

"An Element-Neutral King Rank Spell," Wester commented. "You didn't read the dossiers about the candidates, did you?" Wester asked.

The old man felt like he had been found out.

BANG!

Wester put his hands on the stacked dossiers on the table, making it impossible for the old man to peek at them.

The old man groaned. "Fine! Fine!" he groaned, "but it doesn't really matter, does it? Element-Neutral Spells are worth more than Element-Specific Spells anyway."

"Sir, if you keep creating Element-Neutral Spells for every tournament, the other Clans will start believing that we don't care about the tournament," Wester commented.

The old man groaned again. "Fine! I'll just create one for every Element, and you can choose whichever you want to hand out in the future tournaments."

Wester put the Element-Neutral King Rank Spell under his arm but didn't comment on the old man's words.

Silence.

awkward as his butler

else?" the old man

Silence.

of Calamity

he looked at Wester with skepticism. "Vanished? Did he flee? Why would he? He had money, freedom, status,

people arrived at

you search for him?" the old man

a mere Apprentice, he

"Not even the other Clans could have hidden something like that. Additionally, they would

That would also explain why you can't find a trace of

is also our

nodded. "I presume you need the

"Yes, sir."

old man gestured with his hand for Wester to give him something, and a

looked at the

of the piece of paper, and his

as the

"As always," Wester said.

the study, and wished the old man a

left, the old man looked with furrowed brows at

his fingers. Some water gathered

old man looked into the pool, and the pool reflected a seemingly infinite

old man's eyes moved with rapid speeds as he scanned through every hidden corner

the old

mumbled to himself. "I mean, Affinities can eat up their owners, so it's not really unbelievable. It just hasn't happened with the Child of Calamity before in the past 100,000

his chin for a while longer, but then

Child of Calamity anyway," he

hundreds of meters. It was difficult to discern what was more surprising, the fact that Wester was moving this quickly or the fact

in front of a wooden door, which he quickly opened

arrived in a

was two kilometers long and 300 meters high. Powerful weapons and adornments were on the walls as imposing, violet flags hung down from every column. The flags had

now, the hall

another hallway, this hallway being far bigger and grander than the

through

different kinds of magical equipment could be found in the room. Several papers and different objects were on the

sir. Do you

purple robes stood up politely. Electricity

She exuded incredible power.

I was searching for you. Everything going well?"

for asking, sir," the

politely as

floated over, and the woman looked at

and more as

she took the paper and walked over to a wall. She spoke complex and unfamiliar words that warped

shape of a

paper in the

DING! DING! DING!

unfathomable distance, their sounds ignoring the upper

hunt," Wester commented politely as he left

Sarah said with

SHING!

engulfed by a bright light, but the bright light vanished just as quickly as

Sarah had undergone a