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.

one of

that title in the

tried to kill

Archivist

attacked him, and the Archivist

fell to a tertiary Path, and the other Paths wouldn't allow

then, the

Why?

The Abominations.

Abominations started to become quite a

ages, the Abominations had become more and more powerful, and now, there

humanity

The Child of Calamity.

Child of Calamity

the Archivist heard that, he

Child of

noticed the rapid strengthening and weakening of

of Calamity appeared for the first time, the Abominations started to grow more

Archivist quickly found out

Gate.

of Calamity was a gate

Calamity became, the bigger the gate

true threat to the world,

every time they killed a Child of

trying out many different methods, they found the best

money, a nice place to live, and status, and let them live in happiness.

humanity returned to bloodshed, but they still kept the Child

unlikeliest of Paths made

that wasn't even considered powerful by the

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

book that Lucius Volstad had a level of talent he had never seen before

Abominations also

closely since the power of the Abominations was

sign of being the Child of

him, and the Archivist was quite confident that a Mage Lord wouldn't be

couldn't be the Child