Sword God in a World of Magic

The Lightning Emperor sighed again, something he had been doing quite a lot in the past minutes.

"I assume you know about the lack of Mana?" he asked.

Shang nodded. "I was under the assumption that there was only enough Mana left to let one Mage Emperor survive if I want to become a God, and maybe not even that since the Abominations might have consumed even more Mana."

The Lightning Emperor nodded solemnly. "That's right, but that's only true when you are not willing to sacrifice a big group of people for your goal. Lucius was a kind man that wasn't the biggest fan of killing."

"I assume this isn't a problem for you?"

"It isn't," Shang answered emotionlessly.

"To become a God, you need to absorb ten Emperor's worth of Mana."

"In total, there are 16 Emperor's worth of Mana in the entirety of Aterium currently," the Lightning Emperor said.

"16?" Shang asked. "That's more than I expected."

The Lightning Emperor nodded. "There are eleven Emperors-"

"Wait, eleven?" Shang asked. "I thought there were only ten."

"There are nine Empires with ten Emperors, but there is one more Emperor who isn't very known. He was the only Emperor that Lucius left alive back then."

"His title is the Archivist, and he lives on one of the islands of the Beast Kings. He has dedicated his entire life to witnessing the progress of the world and archiving all the knowledge."

"He wanders the world from time to time, but he never kills anything or influences anyone. He just watches and documents. Not many people know that he exists, and he wants to keep it this way."

"Nevertheless, he is still an Emperor and a pretty strong one at that. I don't think any of us could win against him in a fair duel."

Shang nodded.

eleven Emperors who make up eleven Emperor's worth of

combined make

water in the endless ocean into Mana, that would be another

itself

itself would barely make

that's a bit more

Mana is extremely difficult, the three portions comprising the ocean and the continent are inaccessible to

a couple of Mage Lords,

Shang just nodded absentmindedly.

with fulfilling that request," Shang said. "You have the power

might not care about many people, but I have

centuries, and they knew a lot about me, but I don't have any

pay that investment

Lightning Emperor smiled in a friendly

has resonated with Shang's

not be close to anyone else, but that didn't mean that it was impossible to

made the Temple of Blood a

we have an agreement," the

Shang said with

everything.

chair. "Thank you," he said as

the door and walked

the hallway with

"I will be back shortly," he told Shang before closing

study, Wester raised an eyebrow as he looked

what brings you here?" the

are keeping the warrior alive?"

nods. "Shang is quite a peculiar

eyebrow rose further. "Misread?" he

really misread," the Lightning Emperor said. "I was accurate, but after talking with him, I found more information. You can view it like gaining context regarding his