Sword God in a World of Magic

This time, many different Paths developed at a similar rate.

And eventually, they found the Archivist again.

For the first time, the Paths didn't restrict the Archivist, but they also didn't get rid of his existing suppressions.

This little kindness was probably the very thing that saved all of humanity.

The Archivist told them about what had happened to all the other Paths in the past, but this time, he told them very directly that they were not powerful enough to oppose the legendary beasts.

They needed to gather more power.

The Paths believed the Archivist, and instead of directly attacking the legendary beasts, they decided to just continue living normally.

Many periods of peace and war passed.

The Paths worked closely together, split apart to fight each other, made peace and worked together, and split apart again.

The political landscape changed rapidly, but one thing remained consistent.

Humanity was becoming more powerful than it had ever been before.

Eventually, the Archivist told them that they were probably powerful enough to fight the legendary beasts.

So, humanity banded together to kill the legendary beasts.

And rapidly killed them without even losing a single person.

It was very underwhelming.

Even the Archivist had been surprised by the sheer power humanity had achieved.

For the first time in nearly six million years, humanity had become the ruler of the world again.

And yet, this was the very thing that turned the world into hell.

With the threat of the super-powerful beasts gone, humanity no longer had any reservations.

War!

Power!

It was a brutal era of bloodshed.

be one of the most powerful

Mages lost that

Mage tried to kill the Archivist

the Archivist killed

attacked him,

most powerful Paths, the Mages fell to a tertiary Path,

the

Why?

The Abominations.

to become quite a

ages, the Abominations had become more and more powerful, and now, there were even some Abominations in the Fifth

was when humanity found the

The Child of Calamity.

Calamity determined the power

heard that, he became

very certain that something like a Child of Calamity didn't exist for

and weakening of Abominations and would have connected them with a

first time, the Abominations started to grow more powerful at a

quickly

Gate.

of Calamity was

Child of Calamity became, the bigger the

the world, and all of humanity worked together to find a way

killed a Child of Calamity, a new one would appear somewhere

many different methods, they found

place to live, and status, and let them live in happiness. As long as they

but they still kept the Child

then, the unlikeliest of Paths

Path that wasn't even considered powerful by

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

Lucius Volstad had a level of talent he had

also

Lucius very closely since the power of the Abominations was too similar to Lucius'

sign of

inspected him, and the Archivist was quite confident that a Mage Lord

be the Child