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.

of this created a suspicion in Shang's

this so similar

was that the God might actually

quickly

make no sense for Lucius to die

around and kill Queen Primordium, the Lightning Emperor would have considered the

since the Lightning Emperor didn't even consider that possibility, this probably meant that the Archivist couldn't just walk around

Archivist and the God couldn't

the God had created the universe where Earth was, which was beyond the

they could maybe even create something like Shang's

universe with its own laws

was that the Archivist might have talked to or knew

sense for the God to tell the Archivist how the world worked while the

actually reference the Archivist's

why would he

should have seen

Unless...

work was how the God knew about these

This opened several questions.

could the God not know about

creator

the Archivist actually older than

soon as Shang came up with that question, he stopped thinking

Younger than the Archivist?

decided to continue reading the

Archivist talked about many different Paths, and the times

Archivist had still been young,

Concepts, which they called Laws back then, and combined them. With these combined Concepts, they elevated their

them the first

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

Cultivators were eventually

Emperors appeared in the world, and they ate

weakest humans were left since they weren't strong enough to

that point, only one powerful human remained, which