Sword God in a World of Magic

Now, things were different.

Shang had thought that killing each other was completely forbidden, but apparently, it wasn't.

"And how does something like that go down?" Shang asked.

"Well," Lucin said before transforming into a Lightning Bolt again. "Let's continue on our way. I'll explain while we're traveling."

Shang didn't answer, and the two of them continued shooting into the distance.

"So, basically, in order to become as powerful as a Cloud, you need a lot of danger and actual fighting. Forever staying inside your little cave and meditating forever won't get you this kind of Battle-Strength. If it did, we would have a thousand times more Clouds than currently."

"In order to be outstanding, you must live an outstanding life. You must achieve things that others are too scared to do or can't do, no matter how much they try. One big component of that is actual fights to the death."

"We know that, and that's why we have created a perfect environment for just that. You ever heard about this weird story about that guy that wanted to make the most venomous insect?" Lucin asked.

"No," Shang answered.

"So, there was this guy, and he wanted to make the most venomous insect. One day, he had this genius idea of putting a hundred of the most venomous insects he could find into a pot and making them kill each other until only one was left, believing that the strongest insect would embody the power of all the insects it had killed, making it the most venomous."

"Of course, biology doesn't work like that, and he failed miserably. However, his experiment demonstrated a very real concept."

genius isn't necessarily very powerful. The word peerless means that the peerless

a hundred better geniuses in the nearest town. Yet, how did these better geniuses become better? It was because, in

If we lock them all into an

die, and the other half have gained valuable knowledge regarding fighting life and death battles, making them stronger for

might have comprehended something that made

even more died, but the ones that remained would have grown once

end, we only have one guy left, but that one guy has learned so much that the past him couldn't be compared to the current

to create one

the Contender Department

Archmage Clouds in the Contender Department. Obviously, they can't all become King Contenders. In fact,

We only have space for about 70 Thunders, and we got 110 potential Thunders in one generation

in order for all of these Clouds to survive, we would

the Lightning Manor takes this venomous insect approach, but instead of simply ordering you all to kill

missions, tournaments, tests, and similar. Additionally, if two Clouds agree on a life and death duel, the winner gets to keep all the belongings of

you into dangerous situations. Since you are all geniuses, you are

Cloud with borrowed strength. One-time Spells from a Mage Lord, an Ancestral Mage assassin, a powerful Ancestral Beast, and so on. If a Cloud is going to die, it will be

a question. "And you still get assassinations with all of

"Imagine you have some kind of unresolvable enmity with another Cloud. You want to kill them no matter what, but whenever you challenge them to a duel, they decline. Whenever

have this unresolvable hatred, but there's no way to kill that

everyone here can be considered a peerless genius amongst billions upon billions of people, there are