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.

else was relatively calm,

break through this Zone so that they could release their Archmages or High Mages in the

was desperately trying to stop that

Mages had the

the number of fights happening here and the number

the Ancestral Mages that had been fighting for longer

used to be way

horrible near the beginning of

calmed

things turned absolutely horrible

And then, things changed.

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

that they couldn't defend important

territories from the other territories. After

was how these

200 years ago,

stopped using Defender Flags to

the Lightning Manor could cut off the tendrils at the base, essentially surrounding the tendrils how the tendrils wanted to surround other

stopped using the tendril strategy

was much slower and less

Defender Flags, and they were using the tendril strategy to conquer back some of

the Judgment Palace was far

things had

The Ancestral Hero.

of the Judgment Palace on his own, and he

some territories of their allies to get past

managed to get past the Ancestral Hero, the Ancestral Hero

never stopped battling the Judgment

one had seen him

them knew that

Palace seemed impossibly powerful on paper, but the actual power the Judgment Palace demonstrated

Everyone knew why.

Hero was

still alive had actually seen the Ancestral Hero before since he had vanished 800 years ago, but

Shang Sword.

A warrior.

ancestor of

warrior in the

His power was legendary.