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.

there are eleven Emperors who make up eleven

combined

all the water in the endless ocean into Mana,

Aterium itself make

and the atmosphere itself would barely make up around 70% of another

more than 16 Emperors

Mana is extremely difficult, the three

the Mage Kings and a couple of Mage Lords, you could spare two additional Emperors, leaving you with

Shang just nodded absentmindedly.

the power to kill

many people,

Temple of Blood for centuries, and they knew a lot about me, but I don't have any desire to destroy them. It was

and I will pay that investment back

smiled in a friendly manner and

resonated

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

Temple of

we have an agreement,"

Shang said with

Wester about everything. He will

you," he said as he turned around to walk

the door and walked

in the

toward Shang and stepped into the study. "I will be back shortly," he

Wester raised an eyebrow as

here?" the Lightning Emperor asked with a

are keeping the warrior alive?" he

Emperor said with two nods. "Shang is quite a

raised eyebrow rose further.

misread," the Lightning Emperor said. "I was accurate, but after talking with