Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang sat on top of a mountain.

Soon, the war would officially start.

At this moment, Shang was already inside the Zone he had been assigned to.

Shang had seen a couple of other Ancestral Mages in his Zone but not even a single other warrior.

On top of that, the number of Ancestral Mages in this Zone was not nearly as high as in other Zones.

How come?

Was this Zone unimportant?

No, the opposite, actually.

This was probably the most important Zone of the entire Lightning Manor.

This was the southeastern corner of the Lightning Manor, the only Zone that bordered three other Empires instead of one.

The Zone wasn't very big, only 100,000 kilometers wide and long, but it was extremely important.

Empires were only allowed to attack a territory that shared a border with their own territories.

At this moment, only a small part of the Zone bordered the Judgment Palace's territory, but if that small part got conquered by the Judgment Palace, they would gain access to more territories.

It was like infecting a corner square of a chessboard with a disease that could only affect bordering squares.

The disease could infect one square, then two at once, three at once, four at once, and so on.

Because of that, the Lightning Manor couldn't allow the Judgment Palace to even gain a single piece of territory.

That was why Shang and the strongest Ancestral Mages of every level were in this place.

This place alone had 20 Ancestral Mage Clouds, which was insane.

But due to that, there were also not many normal Ancestral Mages.

One had to remember that the number of normal Ancestral Mages is many times greater than the number of Cloud Ancestral Mages.

And since the war favored quality over quantity the higher the Realm was, there also was no need for many other Ancestral Mages in this place.

Shang had noticed that the levels of the Cloud Ancestral Mages around him were split evenly.

There were five Peak Ancestral Mages, five Late Ancestral Mages, five Mid Ancestral Mages, and five Early Ancestral Mages.

All of this had been brought here to defend from the Judgment Palace.

Naturally, based on the composition of the defensive forces, it was apparent that this would not be a normal war where two armies just clashed with each other.

Something like that was too chaotic and would allow for too much interference of irrelevant powers.

Additionally, the current and future powers of the Empire were supposed to be tested in this war.

The way this war would be fought was much more orderly.

Ancestral Mages

Mages were not quite confident in Shang's power or the Lightning Manor's plan, but they still

a Bolt supervising this territory

you should plant your flag now, just to be

up and

above a thick and thriving forest filled with weaker

beasts or resources, making it economically unimportant, but that didn't

was important was the political value

the political value of

fact, it was the

border the two Empires were sharing was only

an entire Empire

kilometers away from

purple flag

six on it and a two stars above the

and the stars represented the level

were not many

only one flag per

put the flag into the ground, a barrier with

was transparent and didn't block

someone in the Early Sixth

entire border to the Judgment

Judgment Palace wanted to enter the Lightning Manor, they would need to pass through

then, Shang just

in two hours, things would turn

were waiting in the center

they didn't need to wait near the

for

this moment, all the Empires held their

What would happen?

suddenly attack

no one attack immediately and just watch

be a couple

the longest two hours of

when they

Nothing happened.

just silently waited for anything to

for the southeastern half

Empires in the center and northwest of Aterium

was why they wanted to attack

Empire saw nothing happen to their

But the Lightning Manor…

DING! DING! DING! DING!

soon as the two hours were up, one person after the

one person charging forward

the Lightning Manor saw these people, they didn't

They had to wait.

stopped 500 kilometers

took out a big flag in the shape of a cross and

WHOOOM!