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 Spell and lightly

of money. Because of that, we

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door in

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

world ended just

was like there simply was no more space, gravity, or time behind

room behind the door just didn't

open the door. The

politely as he performed a quick but respectful

do you have

emotionless, beautiful, but also

in any way. Her tone had a distinct feeling

Shang's Spirit Sense

visible to normal eyes, but Shang

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

feel anything

obviously expecting

a fivefold Spirit

with a

could guess that Queen Primordium was probably looking at him

are Shang Sword,

"Yes," Shang answered.

have a fivefold Spirit

Fifth Realm, and my Spirit Sense has a radius of 250 kilometers.

seconds of silence

next True Contender would be a non-Mage,"

answered Queen Primordium's question and explained to her how he had comprehended World Connection at the True Path

"Your words resonate with the world, which means that you speak the truth. Without the ability to feel the world's resonance, I might not

words gave Shang

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

added, "Who has been your backer? Who

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

leave Area 23 because of a fallout with the

neither Lucin nor Queen

50 Assistant Supervisors, and the Lightning Manor would only

what he had used to comprehend World Connection, she hummed for a

me in detail how you trained after comprehending your four Imposes and

Shang did just that.

took even a single