Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang had already suspected that the God hadn't told Shang the entire truth at the beginning, and this confirmed it.

Shang continued reading.

"Several of my friends have probably reached the Mage Emperor Realm after my death. Since I am dead, it means that the Mana stored in my body has been freed up and returned to the world."

"It pains me to write this, but for the good of the world, they must be sacrificed when the time is right."

"The world can only support one God and one Emperor at any given moment."

"And that might not even be true for you, Successor. I don't know how much time has passed before you got hold of this letter, but the Abominations keep reducing the Mana in the entire world."

"It might be possible that the world can't even support that single additional Emperor anymore."

"You might need to kill everyone."

"It might even be impossible to gather enough Mana to reach Godhood, even if you kill everyone."

"I don't know, and that thought scares me."

"It would mean that the Abominations have won."

"I can just hope that it isn't too late yet."

"For the good of the world, we have to become sinners."

"I don't know what will kill me in the future, but it must be something of incredible power."

"I can only hope that you will find a way to overcome this hurdle and free the world of this disease."

Shang knew that hurdle very well.

The God.

By now, Shang could guess what happened back then.

Lucius became a God and tried to find a solution to the Abomination problem.

Then, the God and Lucius fought for some reason.

Lucius wanted to free up more Mana for the world by killing the

against

with Lucius. Lucius wasn't a bad person. He was simply someone that had to commit horrible actions for the good

you can do

I have felt the hands of fate, and I am certain that

over at

enough, Lucius

The Spell was here.

know which Path you tread, which is why I designed this Spell

the very Spell that allowed me

"I call it Humanity."

when I became a High Mage, but I have refined it over the next couple of millennia to its

allows you to choose up to two Elements, and when you use it, while the Spell is active, no one

"Not even Emperors."

beasts, humans, and everything else will perceive you to be a normal

will no longer be overly aggressive towards you, and humans won't feel this

your status as the Child of

see your true Affinity doesn't mean that they can't know that you are the Child of

around you, other people might suspect you, and they might

can't allow anyone to

I can only hope that you share

the world to survive

never to appear in the world since it means that I have failed in my duty, but if it does, remember the

is not

world is not your

the world how you

and I hope you will become more powerful than me in

then, the

took another

this letter

of the most

letter to the side and opened the

Shang read through it,

was

book was absolutely gigantic. It probably had thousands of pages

Lucius had managed to simplify the insanely complex principles in the