Sword God in a World of Magic

Knock, knock, knock.

A young man knocked on a big wooden door.

"Come in," came from behind the door.

The young man with grey hair opened the door and walked into the room.

It was a nice and cozy study with a couple of books.

On the table at the back of the study sat a friendly-looking old man who was currently reading a book.

"Sir, we received one more complaint from the Water Emperor, two more from the Wind Emperor, and four more from the Twilight Royalty," the young man said with professional politeness.

The older man on the table only sighed in helplessness.

"Is it because of the increased quantity of Abominations again, Wester?" the old man asked.

Wester, the butler, nodded. "Correct, sir."

The older man sighed once again. "By how much did it increase this time?"

"Compared to 20 years ago, the quantity of Abominations has doubled, sir," Wester explained.

The older man rubbed his temple with one of his hands. "I guess we can't chalk this up to coincidence anymore."

"I was surprised that you managed to do that until now," Wester said with an unchanging expression.

Once again, the older man sighed. "So, the Child of Calamity actually is out there, and they have reached the Adept Realm."

"It seems so, sir," Wester said.

"Well, I guess we have to widen the scope of our search. How long ago did the old Child of Calamity die?"

"About fourteen years, sir," Wester answered professionally.

"Fourteen years, huh?" the old man mused. "That's a bit more on the faster side for reaching the Adept Realm, but not completely outstanding yet. However, it is still far faster than for any of the Areas."

Wester didn't answer.

been born outside the Areas, but

made his decision. "Get Sarah to inspect every Adept below twenty years of age. However, for the Areas, it

take far longer than the last time. The last time, we only looked at newborns.

will probably try to do something sneaky while such a large portion of our forces are occupied. I swear, they only complain so much so that they can bite a huge

to become the one responsible for keeping the Child of Calamity in check. It worked out great for so

old man sighed

if this is your doing, Lucius," he said to no one in particular. "Is this some kind of

doesn't really matter," the old man said as he leaned back to read the book some more. "Wester, please

sir,"

a polite bow and

Wester left the room, the older

just two ants instead of one. Just stop complaining,"

he focused on his

lightning bolts shot away from the mansion, followed by a bright

...

the Lightning Emperor, you are hereby tasked to check your Area for the Child of Calamity. We suspect

golden armor sparkling with lightning spoke these words to

the young man answered respectfully. "I will

man in golden

BANG!

the

middle-aged man with grey hair narrowed his

bolt of lightning, but the bolt was far weaker and slower than the bolt of the man with

man visited five Archmages, but none of them had any idea about the person their supervisor was looking for, but they promised that they would check every

them that he needed an answer

supervisor went to the last Archmage in his responsible

BANG!

bolt struck down on a grassy

bolt vanished, the supervisor was

stood on the hill, his entire body sweaty and vibrating with power as Lightning and Wind Mana around him came out of his being in complex

man's eyes remained closed, even though the arrival of

of questions and a task for you," the supervisor said

answered

that there are far more Abominations appearing all around the world in

but my Kingdom has more than usual. If you want the

The supervisor's brows furrowed.

really didn't like

Abominations? It could be anything. Anything that could connect them to the