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.

make up eleven Emperor's worth of

combined

were to convert all the water in the endless ocean into

and Aterium itself make

living beings and the atmosphere itself would barely make up

a bit more than 16

into pure Mana is extremely difficult, the three portions

were willing to kill all the Mage Kings and a couple of Mage Lords, you could spare two

Shang just nodded absentmindedly.

have the power to kill me, but instead

people, but I have no

Blood for centuries, and they knew a lot about me, but

will pay that investment back in the future," Shang

in

has resonated with

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

of Blood a lot of

an agreement," the Lightning Emperor

said with

everything. He will

took the cue and stood up from his chair. "Thank you," he said as

opened the door

the hallway with a

Shang and stepped into the study. "I will be back shortly," he told Shang before closing the

study, Wester raised an eyebrow as he looked at the

brings you here?" the Lightning

keeping the warrior

is quite a peculiar person. When I first investigated him, I misread him a little

rose further. "Misread?" he

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