Sword God in a World of Magic

After a couple of minutes, the horrifying screams of the High Mage stopped.

Jerald stood up and stepped away from the desecrated corpse. He cleaned his robes of the blood and looked at Shang.

"The next phase of the plan needs another two hours of preparation. For now, I only need you to stay with the three High Mages. If we need you, someone will call you."

Shang nodded.

He knew the plan, and he knew that the next step was crucial.

Shang walked away and entered Swamp Lake City.

As he walked through the streets, he saw many uncertain and terrified commoners. The assault had only happened two hours ago, and they were still uncertain about what would happen to them.

Yet, they were not the ones that had to be afraid. Jerald didn't care about them.

The ones that had to be afraid were the True Mages.

A True Mage already counted as someone quite powerful in the five Kingdoms, and many of them were already decision-makers.

Right now, all of the True Mages in this town were put into magical restraints that made it impossible for them to cast any Spells or use their Focus.

They were all waiting in terror.

Over 100 True Mages were currently waiting in front of one building with fear. All the True Mages in the entire Empress Cobra Zone had been gathered in this spot.

Inside the building were five of Jerald's Inquisitors, and they would read the minds of all the True Mages.

Of the True Mages that entered, only about 60% came out.

The other 40% had been killed.

the True Mage's past actions and gave one of four different

going against the warriors without only following orders, they were put to

out dutifully, they would be put to work for 50 years,

kill the warriors, declined a couple of them, or just showed kindness to the warriors

couldn't expect everyone to put the lives of the warriors above their own. Sometimes, refusing an

of the matter was if they

have even helped the warriors secretly. Maybe they helped one of them flee?

kinds of Mages were allowed to join Jerald's army, of course only if they wanted

were put to work, around 22 became citizens, and only three of them received

to punish someone for only following

That was debatable…

On Earth, that is.

and a hunter had to attack one of them, they could only hope that they attacked the beast that

if they didn't, the hunter would

You went against me, and for that, you deserve

was the general

Adepts and Apprentices were ignored. Even if they harbored hatred for the warriors, it wouldn't matter. They couldn't have done too much harm with their power, and by only leaving

if they didn't, the leaders would be the ones cleansing

and tried their best to kill every Mage

to such a degree that they would kill every warrior they saw, there were also bound to be warriors that did the same but

What happened to them?

Nothing.

Was this hypocritical?

Yes.

So?

It didn't matter.

them as long as the Mages they killed didn't belong to

now that some Mages were part of Jerald's territory, these warriors were