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.

the longevity of these Mage Kings was probably

long could

Ten thousand years?

A hundred thousand years?

a hundred thousand years, and since there are a hundred of them, it meant that around one new Mage King would be born every thousand

long an Archmage

top ten could

of them would become

was

was unfathomably

that normal Archmages couldn't even

have a hard time grasping how powerful Shang

be enough to

this hard work and sacrifice just for a shot at maybe becoming a Mage

World Connection before even reaching

there were

only known one or two level two Concepts. The truly powerful Peak High Mages

Mages had been

least nine High Mages

single one of them actually

he had reached

He only felt pressured.

sacrificed so much, and he had already committed his entire life to nothing but his

The competition was tough.

chuckle. "You reached the

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

Shang didn't answer.

the obvious answer?" the

Shang didn't answer.

jester said as he leaned on his toy hammer. "The biggest reason why you are not number one

also isn't the fact that

The jester chuckled.

"It's background and money."

and he only seemed

strongest Mage per Realm per Empire, starting at the High Mage

its strongest Mage Lord. Of

Mage King. All ten of them are easily strong enough to become Mage Kings on their own, but

had infinite Mana, we would probably have a hundred 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 to the most powerful Mage Lord

jester chuckled again. "And no one

you are

that point, the jester's

not

at least two Archmages that will 100% beat you in a fight while at