Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's Spirit Sense returned, and he slowly sat back up again.

His body wasn't injured in any way, but the same thing couldn't be said for Sword.

Right now, Sword lay beside Shang.

It was only as big as a dagger.

Shang slowly took a deep breath as reality set in.

"I died," he said.

At that moment, the jester jumped down from the Affinity wheel and walked over to Shang while slowly applauding.

"Not bad, not bad," the jester said with a wide grin. "Honestly, when you reached the True Path Stage, I didn't expect you to become so powerful in the Fusion Realm. I expected that you would just comprehend your four Imposes and then breakthrough."

"But no, you actually went a step further."

"And, sure enough, your work wasn't for nothing," the jester said as he stopped in front of Shang.

Shang slowly stood up and fed Sword more ore. By now, Shang's storage of ores was running low.

Even worse, Shang was missing Entropy Ore.

Sword had just consumed its last piece of Entropy Ore, which meant it could only use its ability three more times.

He just hoped that all of this had been worth it.

"14 points in the beast category, but Dusk alone wasn't enough to kill the powerful Peak Archbeast."

"Eleven points in the Mage category, but the powerful Late Archmage managed to outlast you."

"25 points in total. You are nearly invincible in front of every beast in your Realm, and only Peak Archmages and a select few Late Archmages are a danger to you."

"Honestly, in terms of Battle-Strength for Archmages, you are probably in the top 10, which is quite impressive," the jester said with a smirk.

Shang didn't answer, but his head turned to the side.

Top 10 for his Realm.

This was obviously beyond impressive, but when compared to some other numbers, it wasn't as impressive as one might think.

There were ten Archmages that were as powerful as him in the world.

There might also be ten Ancestral Mages that were this powerful.

There were about a hundred Mage Kings in the world.

longevity of these Mage Kings

could

Ten thousand years?

A hundred thousand years?

for a hundred thousand years, and since there are a hundred of them, it meant that around one new Mage

exactly how long

of the top ten could theoretically become a Mage King in

one of

Shang's goal was to become

Shang was unfathomably

was so powerful that normal

would have a hard time

not be

hard work and sacrifice just for a shot at

Connection before even

there

True Path Stage had only known one or two level two Concepts. The truly powerful Peak High Mages might have known

High Mages had been true

at least nine High Mages back then that had comprehended a

actually had a shot at becoming a Mage

had reached the top

He only felt pressured.

had already committed his entire life to nothing but his power, but there were

The competition was tough.

chuckle. "You

aren't powerful enough because you haven't sacrificed

Shang didn't answer.

to accept the obvious answer?" the

Shang didn't answer.

jester said as he leaned on his toy hammer.

the fact that you're not

The jester chuckled.

"It's background and money."

and he only seemed to look in a random

said. "That's the title of the strongest Mage per Realm per Empire, starting

Empires hold a tournament. Every Empire sends its strongest Mage Lord. Of course,

the position of Mage King. All ten of them are easily strong enough to become

the world had infinite Mana, we would probably have a hundred Mage Emperors and over a thousand Mage Kings. Sadly, there just isn't that much

no one can

are a King

the

not the

least two Archmages that will 100% beat you in a