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.

as his butler only stood before

something else?"

Silence.

of Calamity has vanished," Wester

he looked at Wester with skepticism. "Vanished?

Wester said. "When our people arrived at his home for their monthly visit, he was

him?"

every particle of the surrounding 50,000 kilometers. As a mere Apprentice, he couldn't possibly have traveled further, and we would have noticed

hidden something like that. Additionally, they would only be

That would also explain why you can't find

"That is also

also nodded. "I presume

"Yes, sir."

man gestured with his hand for Wester to give him something, and a piece of paper appeared

looked at

his finger at the bottom of the piece of paper, and his finger shone with purple lightning for an

old man commented as the paper

"As always," Wester said.

the study, and

left, the old man looked with furrowed brows at the middle of

gathered in the

man looked into the pool, and the pool reflected a

scanned through every hidden corner of the world in

pool vanished, and the old man laid back on the

to himself. "I mean, Affinities can eat up their owners, so it's not really unbelievable. It just hasn't happened

a while longer, but

of

Wester was walking through a dimly lit hallway made of stone. Every step he took seemingly pulled him forward for hundreds of meters. It was difficult to discern what was more surprising, the fact that

Wester arrived in front of a wooden door, which he

in a

as imposing, violet flags hung down from every column. The flags had white lightning bolts imprinted on them, and a gigantic table was

the hall was

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

through another

could

evening, sir. Do

politely. Electricity sparked around her as space seemed

She exuded incredible power.

I was searching for you. Everything

for asking, sir," the woman spoke

me," Wester said politely as he took out the paper the old man

paper floated over, and the woman looked at

widened more and more as she

to a wall. She spoke complex and

shape of a piece of paper

in the outcropping,

DING! DING! DING!

unfathomable distance, their sounds ignoring the upper limit of the speed

hunt," Wester commented politely

sir," Sarah said with

SHING!

the bright light vanished just as quickly as it had

had undergone a