Sword God in a World of Magic

6.7 million years.

The Mage God had ascended only a bit more than 300,000 years ago!

For every living being, the world basically started existing 300,000 years ago.

Anything that happened before then wasn't relevant.

Back then, the methods of comprehending things were very primitive. People basically only looked at something and tried to build some kind of connection with it.

A big part of comprehension back then was faith and belief. Many people believed that the Elements and natural forces were sentient and that they only told their secrets to worthy people.

Some people even sacrificed others to appease the Elements so that they may share their secrets with them.

Naturally, that didn't really work, but it didn't stop people from trying.

The book talked about all the different kinds of ways the people managed to achieve power, and some of the things Shang read reminded him of what the God had said when they had first met.

"There are innumerable ways to supreme power. You can use the inherent energy in the air to increase the power of your mind. This strengthens your soul, and the more powerful your soul gets, the more powerful your mental abilities become. You can crush elephants with just your mind or move the energy of the world in such a way that it creates powerful destructive forces."

"However, you can also focus on strengthening your body. By absorbing the energy in the atmosphere and fusing it with your body, you can become so fast and so powerful that the other person that trains their mind wouldn't even be able to react to an attack of yours."

"You can also fuse with some ethereal concepts and summon them."

"You can also concentrate on weapons, which allows you to sunder reality with a move of your weapon."

"You can also comprehend the concepts of how the world works and manipulate the energy in such a way that it imitates these concepts. You would gain control over fire, gravity, time, space, water, metal, life, and so on."

"You can even just purely absorb Energy without end, becoming a walking bomb that could unleash many years of accumulated power in a single strike."

Shang had to pause after reading this.

The reason was that the book basically explained all these things in a very similar way.

It used similar words, and the structure of the sentences was similar, albeit more professional.

Of course, the book went into more detail.

created a suspicion

this so similar to the

God might

Shang very quickly dismissed that

make no

if the Archivist could just walk around and kill Queen Primordium,

this probably meant

and the God couldn't

God had created the universe where Earth was, which was beyond the power of a Mage

and they could maybe even create something like Shang's inner

universe with its own laws of physics was probably way beyond their

next suspicion was that the Archivist might have talked to or knew of the existence

all, the Archivist had lived through these times. It would make no sense for the

the God actually reference

he

should have seen

Unless...

how the God knew about

This opened several questions.

not know about

creator

actually

Shang came up with that question, he

Younger than the Archivist?

decided to continue reading the book for

and the

young, people

Cultivators comprehended many different Concepts, which they called Laws back then, and combined

Archivist called them the first iteration of

similar to Mages, but they did it in an all-encompassing way, which distributed their power over all aspects, making them jack-of-all-trades

were eventually suppressed

the world, and they ate every

left since they weren't strong enough to interest the

powerful human remained, which was the