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.

everywhere else was relatively calm,

this Zone so that they could release their

Lightning Manor was desperately

had

time couldn't believe the number of fights happening here and the number of people

Ancestral Mages that had been fighting for longer had something

used to be

been horrible near

calmed down a

turned

And then, things changed.

Judgment Palace was still attacking with as much fervor as before, but they were losing way more battles than

they

tendril of conquered territories to isolate a number of territories from the other territories. After that, they could slowly take out one territory after the

was how these

years ago, something

Palace stopped using Defender Flags

cut off the tendrils at the base, essentially surrounding the tendrils how the tendrils wanted to surround

using the tendril strategy and decided to

was much slower and

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

Judgment Palace was far higher than for

things had developed this

The Ancestral Hero.

ago, the Ancestral Hero had stood in front of the Judgment Palace on his

some territories of their allies to get past

Judgment Palace managed to get past

battling the

seen him

them knew that he

powerful on paper, but the

Everyone knew why.

Hero was

alive had actually seen the Ancestral Hero before since

Shang Sword.

A warrior.

of

powerful warrior in

His power was legendary.