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."

word peerless means that the peerless in question

how did these better geniuses become better? It was because, in order to become peerless, they needed

we lock them all into an arena and only allow one of them to leave, what will happen? They will

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

die, and the remaining 25 might have comprehended something that made them superior

that remained

guy has learned so much that the past him couldn't be compared to

used 100 peerless geniuses to

how the

become King Contenders. In fact, chances are high that not even one of them will become a King Contender since

more, imagine all of them reaching the Mage Lord Realm. With their talent, they would reach the power of Thunders eventually, and what then? We only have space for about 70

since, in order for all

order to maximize the benefit, the Lightning Manor takes this venomous insect approach, but instead of

more, you gotta join very dangerous missions, tournaments, tests, and similar. Additionally, if two Clouds agree on a life and death duel, the winner

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

Mage assassin, a powerful Ancestral

of this, Shang interjected with a question. "And you still get

unresolvable enmity with another Cloud. You want to kill them no matter what,

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

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