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.

of these Mage Kings was probably

could a

Ten thousand years?

A hundred thousand years?

a hundred thousand years, and since there are a hundred of them, it meant that around

long an Archmage could

meant that only one of the top ten could theoretically become

one of them would become

goal was to become

was unfathomably

was so powerful that normal Archmages

Ancestral Mages would have a hard time

might not be enough to

of this hard work and sacrifice just for a shot

World Connection before even reaching

it meant that there were

Path Stage had only known one or two level two Concepts.

those powerful High Mages had been true

at least nine High Mages back then that

them actually had a

heard that he had reached the top ten,

He only felt pressured.

already sacrificed so much, and he had already committed his entire life

The competition was tough.

"You

you aren't powerful enough because you haven't sacrificed enough?" the jester

Shang didn't answer.

the

Shang didn't answer.

toy hammer. "The biggest reason why you are

the fact

The jester chuckled.

"It's background and money."

seemed to look

Contenders," the jester said. "That's the title of the strongest Mage per Realm

a tournament. Every Empire sends its strongest Mage Lord. Of course, the Judgment Palace gets to send two since they also have

of the world fight for the position of Mage King. All ten of them are easily strong enough to become Mage Kings on their own, but due to the lack of Mana in the world, there just isn't enough Mana to

Mage Emperors and over a thousand Mage Kings. Sadly, there just isn't that much Mana left, which means that becoming a Mage King is only afforded

no one can become a Mage

now, you are

that point, the

not the

beat you in a fight while