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.

spoke some kind of complex Spell and

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 take several

Creeaak!

heard the door in front of

opened, Shang's Spirit Sense flooded into the room, but it didn't get

like the world ended just

there simply was no more space, gravity, or

like the room behind

Shang also didn't see anyone open the door. The door had seemingly opened on

spoke politely as he performed

you have to

heard an emotionless, beautiful, but also strict voice coming from the

or annoyed in any way. Her tone had

Spirit Sense couldn't see Queen

probably visible to normal eyes, but Shang didn't

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

didn't feel

obviously

a fivefold

asked with a slight bit

but he could guess that Queen Primordium was probably

Shang

"Yes," Shang answered.

a fivefold Spirit

a radius of 250 kilometers. That should be a

of silence

the next True Contender would be a non-Mage,"

how he had comprehended World Connection at the True Path

that you speak the truth. Without the ability to feel the world's resonance, I might not have believed

Primordium's words gave Shang a

had expected that someone as powerful as a Mage King probably knew of several ways to find out if someone was

been

about his position as a plus one for an Assistant Supervisor in

fallout with the Assistant Supervisor he was working

nor Queen

the Lightning Manor would only tell him in an annoyed tone

Queen Primordium about what he had used to comprehend World Connection, she hummed

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

Shang did just that.

even a