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.

to be one

that

to kill the Archivist for

the Archivist

Archivist's Path had attacked him,

to a tertiary Path, and the

the bloodshed calmed

Why?

The Abominations.

to become

now, there were even some Abominations in

humanity found the

The Child of Calamity.

of Calamity determined the power of

Archivist heard that, he

something like a Child of Calamity didn't

the rapid strengthening and weakening of Abominations

the first time, the Abominations started to grow more powerful

Archivist quickly found out

Gate.

was a

stronger the Child of Calamity became, the

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

of Calamity, a new one would appear somewhere

out many different methods, they found the best

the Child of Calamity some money, a nice place to live, and status, and let them live in happiness. As

years, humanity returned to bloodshed, but they still kept the Child of Calamity

the unlikeliest of Paths

powerful by the rulers of the

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

Archivist wrote in the book that Lucius Volstad had a level of talent he had never seen

also became more

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

no sign of

was quite confident that a Mage Lord wouldn't be

Lucius couldn't be