Sword God in a World of Magic

King Sanctified Death.

Shang remembered that the God had once said that there was one Mage King that actually had a foundation that supported Godhood.

Shang was quite certain that the God had referred to King Sanctified Death.

Shang also knew what it meant when Lucin had said that the Emperors were debating about letting King Sanctified Death become an Emperor.

The number of Mage Kings already needed to be kept limited, and that was also true for Mage Emperors.

The world had ten Mage Emperors, and the world probably couldn't support an eleventh Mage Emperor.

So, when they were talking about letting King Sanctified Death become an Emperor…

They were considering killing off one of the current Emperors. After all, as far as Shang knew, Mage Emperors could live forever. They wouldn't just randomly die.

"Let's continue," Lucin said, motioning for Shang to follow him.

Lucin continued down the hallway with Shang.

They walked through a couple of different hallways, and they eventually reached a place where no one else was walking around.

The hallways didn't seem any different from all the other ones, but for some reason, Shang felt like they were different.

"This is where the Mage Kings live," Lucin explained. "There is no particular rule that forbids going to a Mage King's room and knocking on their door, but people don't need a rule for that. Common sense is already enough."

Shang knew what Lucin meant. In some huge companies with thousands of employees, there also weren't rules against knocking at the door to the CEO's office, but people still avoided doing that for obvious reasons.

The same thing was true here.

This hallway had far fewer doors than all the other ones, which meant that the rooms behind the doors were much larger than any room anywhere else.

As Shang walked through the hallway, he felt some strange feelings of grandeur.

Behind each of these doors was a Mage King, one of the 100 strongest beings in the world.

He could knock on any of the doors, and he would come face to face with one of the strongest beings in the world.

It was a surreal feeling.

After walking for a bit, the two of them stopped in front of a seemingly random door.

"This is Queen Primordium's door. Don't ever come here on your own, understood?" Lucin ordered with a serious voice.

Shang wordlessly nodded.

"Good," Lucin said.

kind of complex

wait," Lucin said. "The Mage Kings are very busy, and interrupting them can cost us a lot of money. Because of that, we use this Spell to very subtly make it known that we are here. It might

Creeaak!

in front of

flooded into the room, but

the world ended just a couple of centimeters behind the

there simply was no more space,

like the room behind the door just didn't

see anyone open the door. The door had seemingly opened on its

spoke politely as he performed

do you have to

also

wasn't aggressive or annoyed in any way. Her

Spirit Sense couldn't see

to normal eyes, but Shang

Shang Sword, the warrior that is about to join the Contender Department," Lucin said,

didn't feel anything

asked, obviously expecting

has a fivefold

with a

in the surroundings, but he could guess that

Shang Sword,

"Yes," Shang answered.

have a fivefold Spirit

Realm, and my Spirit Sense has a radius of

seconds of

have expected that the next True Contender would be a non-Mage," Queen Primordium mused. "How did

answered Queen Primordium's question and explained to her how he

after Shang was done. "Your words resonate with the world, which means that you speak the

gave Shang

powerful as a Mage King probably knew of several ways to find out if someone was lying or not, but Shang had never known how they would find out the

added, "Who has been your

a plus one for an Assistant Supervisor in Area 23 and how he had been able to

of a fallout with the Assistant Supervisor he was working with and that

nor

the Lightning Manor would only tell him in an annoyed

Primordium about what he had used

is very little," she commented. "Explain to me in detail how you trained

Shang did just that.

even a single