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.

the Ancestral Mages kept waiting in their

Shang's power or the Lightning Manor's plan, but they still

Bolt supervising

"I think you should plant your flag now, just

stood up and flew towards

thick and

any valuable beasts or resources, making it

important was the

political value of this area was

was

border the two Empires were sharing was

blocked an entire

stopped around 10,000 kilometers away from the border

huge purple flag and

six on it and a two

Realm, and the stars represented the

very important, and there were not many of them available in

a Defender Flag, and there was only one

into the ground, a barrier with a diameter of 5,000

was transparent and

someone in the

barrier covered the entire border

the Judgment Palace wanted to enter the Lightning Manor, they would

Shang

was calm, but in

Zone were

was fought, they didn't need to

for the

this moment, all the Empires held their

What would happen?

suddenly attack

immediately and just

there be a couple of

for the longest two hours of

they were

Nothing happened.

waited for anything

was for the

five of the Empires felt nothing, the four Empires in the center and northwest of Aterium certainly felt the

the Lightning Emperor, which was why they wanted to attack

Empire saw nothing happen to

But the Lightning Manor…

DING! DING! DING! DING!

were up, one person after the other shot

only one person

Manor saw these people, they didn't

They had to wait.

stopped 500 kilometers into

a big flag in the shape of a cross

WHOOOM!