Sword God in a World of Magic

It didn't take long for Shang to finish the remaining books. Sure, some of the books took a lot of calculation and brainpower to understand, but Shang still finished them in a couple of years.

A moment later, Shang touched the little pin on his chest and contacted the Lightning Emperor.

The Isolation Barrier didn't interfere with the connection.

"Hey, Shang! What's up?" the Lightning Emperor asked with a chipper voice.

"I'm done with the books," Shang said.

"Oh, cool! Did you like them?" he asked.

"They were very informative. Especially the Watcher's Record," Shang said.

"Yeah, that one's a classic," the Lightning Emperor said.

"What's the Archivist like?" Shang asked.

"The Archivist?" the Lightning Emperor repeated. "He has white hair and wears all these ancient trinkets on his person. He's also incomparably wise, and he has this Aura that makes you think that everything in the world is within his control. Kind of like the ancient head of a big family, you know?"

"He also knows Spells that I don't even know how to create or counter. For example, nobody in the world can make a copy of his book. Any method of trying to copy it fails or produces unreadable and senseless text. Even if you just write down what you've learned from memory, at some point, it starts turning into gibberish."

"The book even updates itself automatically. All of us got one copy each from the Archivist, and the additional sentences after Lucius' ascension appeared on their own in all of our copies. He's crazy powerful!"

"Without Lucius' suppression, and if the Archivist wanted to, he could probably fight all nine of us at the same time and maybe even win!"

Shang listened intently to the Lightning Emperor's words.

"He's that powerful?" he asked.

"Very, very powerful," the Lightning Emperor answered.

"What if King Sanctified Death became a Mage Emperor?" Shang asked.

Silence.

powerful. If he reaches the Peak Mage Emperor Realm, he

"Anti-Magic?" Shang asked.

the enemy launched into nothing. He also

Domain of Entropy,' Shang

said. "How

the Lightning Emperor answered. '"That's the

Shang asked as his heart rate rose. "But it had to use

Mana, no life energy, no Mana from the surroundings, nothing. It was essentially like the passive domain of destruction of the

Shang's mind raced.

was very different from Shang's

very careful not to accidentally die since

just

Without using any resources?

such a

Spell forever," the Lightning Emperor answered. "It just wasn't that powerful initially. When he was just a True Mage, he could use it, but it cost a crazy amount of Mana. He only perfected it at the Peak Ancestral Mage

Shang's mind nearly stopped.

Peak Ancestral Mage Realm?

was currently

or sixfold Spirit Sense, which meant that he had comprehended something

had been a Mage, Lucius'

have comprehended a level five Concept as a Peak Ancestral Mage, and that

Shang was certain.

that Shang

you think that was related to the Concept he comprehended before becoming

definitely!" the

Concept did Lucius comprehend before becoming

"Dunno."

Silence.

know?"

the Seventh Realm after us.

when we heard that Lucius killed

and he said that he didn't want to lie to me, which was why he refused to elaborate. He only said that it was dark knowledge that should never enter the hands of anyone else since it would endanger the

Shang's frustration rose.

had been so