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.

Lucin spoke some kind of complex Spell and lightly

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

Creeaak!

heard the door in front of

soon as the door opened, Shang's Spirit Sense flooded into the room, but

ended just a couple of centimeters behind

more space, gravity, or

the room behind the

door. The door had

he performed a

do you have

beautiful, but also strict voice

way. Her tone had a distinct

Shang's Spirit Sense couldn't

was probably visible to normal eyes, but Shang didn't have

about to join

feel anything

Queen Primordium asked, obviously

fivefold

Primordium asked with

could guess

Shang

"Yes," Shang answered.

have a fivefold Spirit

a

seconds of silence

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

her how he had comprehended World Connection at the True Path

was done. "Your words resonate with the world, which means that you speak the truth. Without

Shang a valuable piece

that someone as powerful as a Mage King probably knew of several ways to find out if someone was lying or not, but

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

her about his position as a plus one for an Assistant Supervisor in Area 23 and how

Area 23 because of a fallout with the Assistant Supervisor he was working with and that he had

Lucin nor Queen

would only tell him in an annoyed

he had used to

detail how you trained

Shang did just that.

even a