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.

proved to be one of the most powerful

that title in

strongest Mage tried to kill the Archivist for

Archivist

attacked him, and

to a tertiary Path, and the other Paths wouldn't allow for the Mages to make

the bloodshed

Why?

The Abominations.

started to become quite a

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

humanity found

The Child of Calamity.

of the Child of Calamity determined the power

that, he

Child of Calamity didn't

have noticed the rapid strengthening and weakening of Abominations and would have connected

for the first time, the Abominations started to grow

the Archivist quickly

Gate.

Calamity was a gate for the

Calamity

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

time they killed a Child of Calamity, a new one

trying 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 long as they didn't become more powerful, everything

but they still kept the Child

the unlikeliest of Paths made

powerful by the rulers of the

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

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

Abominations also became more

the power

showed no sign of

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

couldn't be