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.

Mages proved to be one of the most powerful

lost that title in the

kill

the Archivist

had attacked him, and the Archivist destroyed

Paths, the Mages fell to a tertiary Path, and the

then, the bloodshed calmed

Why?

The Abominations.

started to

now, there were even some Abominations in the Fifth Realm appearing

was when humanity found

The Child of Calamity.

Calamity determined the power of the

Archivist heard that, he became

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

and weakening of Abominations and would have connected them with

as soon as the Child of Calamity appeared for the first

Archivist quickly found out

Gate.

Calamity was a gate for

Calamity

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

every time they killed a Child of Calamity,

different methods,

in happiness. As long as they didn't become more powerful, everything was okay, and the Abominations would

they still kept the Child of Calamity in their

unlikeliest of Paths made a

considered powerful

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

Archivist wrote in the book that Lucius Volstad had a level of talent he

Abominations also

the Archivist inspected Lucius very closely since the power

sign of

a Mage Lord when the Archivist inspected him, and the Archivist was quite confident that a Mage Lord wouldn't be able to fool the eyes of the first and most powerful Mage, who was over six

be the