Sword God in a World of Magic

As Jerald entered the room, he looked at Shang with a smile.

"You're not wearing your armor?" he asked.

"Yeah, about that," Shang said.

Jerald raised an eyebrow.

"I need a new one."

Jerald's eyebrows rose in surprise. "I take it you had a very tough fight?"

Shang nodded.

Then, he began to recount everything about the centipede and his fight with it. Jerald knew everything about Shang except for his control over Abominations, which was why Shang didn't need to keep anything a secret.

After Shang recounted everything, Jerald's brows furrowed. "Shang, I've fought maybe hundreds of True Path Stage beasts in my life, and I can tell you that not even one of them had any sort of power even similar to that centipede."

"I'm not exaggerating," Shang said. "This is exactly what happened."

Jerald nodded. "I know. If this came from anyone else's mouth, I wouldn't believe them, but I know you."

Jerald rubbed his chin in thought. "This doesn't sound like a beast at all. You said you saw a huge diagram. Do you still remember how it looked?"

Shang nodded. Even though Shang's mind was far below the power of his body, it still was vastly more powerful than a normal person's mind. Because of that, he remembered about 60% to 80% of the complex diagram.

Jerald summoned some paper and handed it to Shang along with a pencil. He knew that Shang probably didn't carry such stuff with him.

Shang reconstructed the diagram as best as he could and handed the paper back to Jerald.

When Jerald looked at it, his eyebrows shot up in shock.

"That definitely didn't come from a beast," he said. "You see how these circles are positioned in relation to each other? That follows the common Marnur Nomenclature for clean and dispersed creation for Magic Circles. When beasts use Magic, they don't use it in such a methodical and clean manner."

"These Runes also follow the classic Old Magic Library Placement. The position-"

Shang interrupted, "You know that

said with a short chuckle. "In short, this is a Magic Circle that follows all the common conventions for smart Spell Casting. This is 100% a Magic Circle that has been designed

of it is missing, I can tell you that the design of this Magic Circle is far beyond my level. The Runes interact in very unusual,

all of them

Shang with a quick and surprised glance. "You think this comes from outside the

level in the five Kingdoms, and I think you can even estimate the power of the Kings. If

the ceiling as he hummed. "That might actually be the

what do you think about

it came

Shang nodded.

the diagram for a bit

scientific research into the potential creation of beasts. You know, man-made beasts. The Skythunder Kingdom was once thinking about replacing the warriors with beasts that followed orders and were specifically designed to do

the Skythunder Kingdom learned about how to make something like that, the more they realized how incredibly complex and monumental this

the

you think this

Jerald said with a

did it get here, and why

as he

his eyebrows rose as he got an

"Invasive species," he said.

eyebrows also rose. "So, you don't think it was put here deliberately but simply

a creature wanted you dead, they wouldn't need to use the creature. They could just snuff you

don't think that you were deliberately

to this place on accident and lived inside the deep

the outside world, these creatures are common

as he thought

could think

deal with physis?" he

taking away their flexibility. Its wall

what you told me, all the other Paths have deteriorated into what they

why anyone would want to design a creature to kill physis when physis can't even deal with an Archmage," Jerald

scratched his chin in