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.

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

had actively been going against the warriors

they would be put to work for 50 years, after which they would be

their best to screw up the orders to kill the warriors, declined a couple of them, or just showed kindness to the warriors they were sent to kill, they would be allowed

above their own. Sometimes, refusing an order could result

was if they supported the war against the

secretly. Maybe they helped one of them flee? Maybe they purposely acted like they didn't find the warrior? Maybe they warned

kinds of Mages were allowed to join Jerald's army, of course only if they wanted to. They would also receive payment, referrals, and

around 40 were directly killed, around 35 were put to work, around 22 became citizens,

it wrong to punish someone for only

That was debatable…

On Earth, that is.

world, power ruled. If there were two powerful beasts in a fight and a hunter had to attack one of them, they could only hope that they

if they didn't, the hunter would

You went

the general ideology

have done too much harm with their power, and by only leaving the pure leaders alive, the pack would eventually adapt to reflect the

didn't, the leaders would be the ones cleansing

Mages and tried their best to kill every Mage

such a degree that they would kill every warrior they saw, there were also bound

What happened to them?

Nothing.

Was this hypocritical?

Yes.

So?

It didn't matter.

them as long as the Mages they killed didn't

Mages were part of Jerald's territory, these warriors were not