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.

calm, this Zone was

so that they could release their Archmages or

the Lightning Manor was desperately

had

Ancestral Mages that fought for the first time couldn't believe the number of fights

been fighting for longer

to be way

had been horrible near the beginning of the

had calmed

turned

And then, things changed.

was still attacking with as much fervor as before,

reason was that they couldn't

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

was how these

200 years ago, something

stopped using Defender Flags to

cut off the tendrils at the base, essentially surrounding the

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

much slower

the Lightning Manor still had their Defender Flags, and they were using

Palace was far higher than for the Lightning

why things

The Ancestral Hero.

front of the Judgment Palace on his own, and he had

Palace even needed to conquer some

managed to get past the Ancestral

he had never stopped battling

had seen him

all of them knew that he was

Palace seemed impossibly powerful on paper, but the actual power the Judgment Palace demonstrated wasn't as

Everyone knew why.

Ancestral Hero was still causing

Hero before since he had vanished 800 years ago, but everyone knew his

Shang Sword.

A warrior.

ancestor of all

warrior in the

His power was legendary.