Sword God in a World of Magic

A couple of territories away from Shang, the Lightning Manor was fighting a desperate war.

Ever since the war started, over 50 Ancestral Mage Clouds had died, and only 30 new ones had been born during this time.

The number of Ancestral Mage Clouds was declining.

The numbers of Archmages were not that problematic, and the number of High Mages was no problem.

The Land and Sky Empire and the Twilight Dusk Family were playing the long game. They weren't putting a lot of pressure on the Lightning Manor, which meant that the Lightning Manor's forces weren't shrinking by much.

However, the numbers of powerful Mages in the other Empires were not only not shrinking but even growing.

Such huge wars allowed the creation of powerful geniuses through tempering on the battlefield. On top of that, the addition of valuable resources the Empires were selling at a loss caused even more powerful people to emerge.

Ever since the war started, the number of Ancestral Mages with a fourfold Spirit Sense in the Twilight Dusk Family increased by 20.

Same with the Land and Sky Empire.

All three Empires had started with about 100 Ancestral Mages with fourfold Spirit Senses.

And now, the Lightning Manor had 80, and the other two had 120 each.

From 100 against 200, it had transformed to 80 against 240.

The other Realms were not in trouble, but the Ancestral Mage Realm represented the future.

In the future, everyone would be fighting with Mage Lords, and these powerful Ancestral Mages would be the powerful Mage Lords of the future.

Luckily, the Lightning Manor had the warriors, who were starting to explode in numbers and power.

After so many years, there were now over 10,000 World Connection warriors and 20 of them even had threefold Spirit Senses.

The war had started 800 years ago.

For almost everyone, the war had been going on ever since they had been born. Only the very oldest Archmages and stronger remembered a time without war.

War had become normal to everyone.

A lot of people were even used to fighting on the frontlines.

Yet, there was one area that no one could get used to.

The southeastern Zone of the Lightning Manor.

was relatively calm,

trying to break through this Zone so that they could release their Archmages or High Mages

was desperately trying

had

that fought for the first time couldn't believe the number of fights happening here and the number of

Mages that had been fighting for longer had something different to

used to be

near

calmed down

things turned absolutely

And then, things changed.

as much fervor as before, but they were losing

that they couldn't defend important

to create a tendril of conquered territories to isolate a number of territories from the other territories. After that, they could

how these

200 years ago, something

stopped using Defender Flags to

that, the Lightning Manor could cut off the tendrils at the base, essentially surrounding the tendrils how the tendrils

massive failures, the Judgment Palace stopped using the tendril strategy and decided to conquer each territory one at

was much slower and

more, the Lightning Manor still had their Defender Flags, and they were using the tendril strategy to conquer back some of their own

the Judgment Palace was far higher than

why things had

The Ancestral Hero.

years ago, the Ancestral Hero had stood in front of the Judgment Palace on his own, and he

Palace even needed to conquer some territories of their allies

to get past the

never stopped battling the Judgment

had seen

all of them knew that

but the actual power the Judgment Palace demonstrated wasn't as

Everyone knew why.

Hero was still causing

Hero before since he

Shang Sword.

A warrior.

ancestor of

most powerful warrior in the

His power was legendary.