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.

and the Ancestral Mages kept waiting in their

quite confident in Shang's power or

hours," a Bolt

you should plant your flag now,

slowly stood up and flew towards the

a thick and thriving forest filled with

Shang actually didn't have any valuable beasts or resources, making it economically unimportant,

the political value of

political value of this

was

of the border the two Empires were sharing

entire Empire from

kilometers away from the border

flag and rammed it

on it and a two

Realm, and the stars represented the level inside

and there were not

was only one flag per level, which came

put the flag into the ground, a

barrier was transparent and didn't block

as someone in the Early Sixth Realm entered, it would

barrier covered the entire border to the Judgment

the Lightning

Shang just

calm, but in two hours,

in the Zone were waiting in the center of

to how the war was fought, they didn't

for

the Empires

What would happen?

Empire suddenly attack

no one attack immediately and just watch how things

be a couple

two hours for the longest two hours

when they

Nothing happened.

Empires just silently waited

the southeastern half of

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

all angry with the Lightning Emperor, which was why they wanted to attack

saw nothing happen

But the Lightning Manor…

DING! DING! DING! DING!

soon as the two hours were up, one person after the other shot into the Lightning Empire across

was always only one

Lightning Manor saw these people, they

They had to wait.

500 kilometers into a Zone for High Mages of the

the shape of a cross and rammed it into

WHOOOM!