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

yet, the Mages lost that title in the most ironic

strongest Mage tried to kill

Archivist killed

had attacked him, and the Archivist destroyed

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

the bloodshed calmed

Why?

The Abominations.

Abominations started to

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

when humanity found the

The Child of Calamity.

power of the Child of Calamity determined the power of the

heard that, he became

Child of Calamity

weakening of Abominations and would

as soon as the Child of Calamity appeared for the first time, the Abominations started

quickly

Gate.

was a

Calamity became,

Abominations became a true threat to the world, and all of humanity

every time they killed a Child of Calamity, a new one would appear

out many different methods,

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

but they still kept the Child of Calamity

of Paths made a

that wasn't even considered powerful

Mages.

And their leader...

Lucius Volstad.

His power was... scary.

had a level of talent he had

also became

the Archivist inspected Lucius very closely since the power of the Abominations was too

of being

Mage Lord wouldn't be able to fool the eyes of the first and most powerful Mage, who was over six

be the Child