Sword God in a World of Magic

"It's nice to see you as well, Wester," Queen Primordium answered.

"I presume you're here because of our young friend here?" Wester asked. "I think I already know why you're here."

"How will we proceed?" Queen Primordium asked.

Wester turned to Shang and looked at him while he scratched his chin in thought. "You have a fivefold Spirit Sense, right?"

Shang nodded.

"You're not a Mage, right?" Wester asked.

Shang nodded again.

Wester absentmindedly nodded a couple of times as he fell into thought.

"Difficult," Wester said. "We don't really think about the supremacy of Mages in our everyday life. Everyone that we know is already a Mage."

"Only when there is actual contrast can we take note of the difference."

"I'm no different," Wester added. "I haven't even entertained the possibility that a warrior might become powerful enough to rival King Contenders. That possibility just seems so far in the future."

Wester remained silent for a couple of seconds.

Queen Primordium and Shang didn't say anything.

"Past, present, and future," Wester said. "In the past, Mages were antagonistic to warriors. In the present, Mages are interested in raising warriors."

"The future is still uncertain."

"Will the past be repeated, or will there be cooperation?"

Wester stayed silent for a while again.

"The past dictates the future, but the past isn't always correct. Regret is a word, and if the past were always correct, regret wouldn't exist."

the present,

can only be made by the people of the past," Wester

Queen

nodded. "I must ask the

bit of Shang's

The Lightning Emperor.

many things an

two wait here," Wester said before leaving his room and walking over to

wanted to meet the Lightning Emperor

dangerous it would be, but Shang

about his warrior's body, but he decided that this was a

it was important to see

news would even reach the Lightning Emperor, one of

the long corridor and stopped in front of a simple

he politely knocked and

an old man sitting behind a desk said in a friendly voice. At the moment, the Lightning Emperor was reading through a

said as he entered

them?" the Lightning

no, sir," Wester

released a long sigh. "And here I was hoping that I would finally have something positive to report to

and more. You know, in the

You know, I've tried to get their help for

help to find the Child of Calamity. Honestly, if they had offered their help earlier,

Lightning Emperor said before he released another sigh. "Let's face it. Several centuries have passed, and the Child of Calamity must have

circle, and Wester was basically the only being below

meant that the Lightning Emperor didn't

was used to listening to

have probably found them in the first couple of years, but since we only have access to a couple of Mage Lords to scour the entire world, we couldn't have searched as effectively as was

others had just agreed to search through

to help. It took how many

sir," Wester

Emperor uttered in

million deaths, sir," Wester said. "At least, those are the number of deaths in