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 lightly

Lucin said. "The Mage Kings are very busy, and interrupting them can cost us a lot of money. Because of that, we

Creeaak!

door in

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

was like the world ended just a couple of centimeters behind the

like there simply was no more

the room behind the door

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

spoke politely as he performed a quick but

do you have

heard an emotionless, beautiful, but also strict

wasn't aggressive or annoyed in any way. Her tone had a distinct feeling of routine to

Shang's Spirit Sense couldn't see

visible to normal

is Shang Sword, the warrior that is about to join

didn't feel anything

Queen Primordium asked, obviously

has a fivefold

with

could

Shang Sword,

"Yes," Shang answered.

a

has a radius

seconds of silence

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

and explained to her how

with the world, which means that you speak the truth. Without the ability to feel

words gave Shang

several ways to find out if someone was

Queen Primordium added, "Who has been your backer? Who has given

her about his position as a plus one for an Assistant Supervisor in Area 23 and how he had been able to

a fallout with the Assistant

nor Queen Primordium

Manor would only tell him in an annoyed tone to

told Queen Primordium about what he had used to comprehend

in detail how you trained after

Shang did just that.

even