Sword God in a World of Magic

Three Mage Kings had met their demise.

The first one was the Myriad King, whose remaining lifespan had finally expired.

When Shang had first encountered him, the Myriad King had less than 5,000 years left, and now his time had run out. Unfortunately, there was nothing that could have been done to prevent it.

The Myriad King's mana was transferred into an inheritor sphere and stored at a neutral location for the upcoming tournament.

As for the other two Mage Kings, one belonged to the Twilight Dusk Family, an elderly figure who had served for a long time.

The other was a newer Mage King recently acquired by the Lightning Manor, although they still remained at the Initial Mage King Realm, as advancing in the Mage King Realm took considerable time.

One day, the oldest Mage King from the Twilight Dusk Family launched an attack on the new Mage King from the Lightning Manor.

The mana of the Twilight Dusk Family Mage King was dispersed into the world since they were not allowed to keep it.

On the other hand, the mana left behind by the Lightning Manor's new Mage King remained with them.

As their previous Mage King had died due to a violation of the rules, the Lightning Manor had the privilege to select another member to become the new Mage King.

This resulted in the Twilight Dusk Family losing a Mage King while the Lightning Manor did not suffer the same fate.

But what was the purpose behind the Twilight Dusk Family's actions? It was all related to the upcoming tournament for the future Mage Emperor.

With only about 46,000 years remaining until the tournament, the Lightning Manor needed their trump card, capable of challenging King Sanctified Death, to become a Mage King as soon as possible.

However, the trump card already faced a disadvantage of around 30,000 years compared to King Sanctified Death.

attain the Mage King status soon, not even a Mage with a

weapon was, so they decided to sacrifice one of their oldest Mage Kings, who would have perished soon anyway, in exchange for the newest Mage

Mage Lord to the position of Mage

been a Thunder and possessed a fourfold Spirit

since they had worked in the secretive Contender Department, they were

Mage King was aware of their impending demise, expected to be sacrificed by another Mage King in a couple of thousand years, just

the Thunder was accepting of

years regardless. Moreover, this path would make them one of the rare few Mage Kings in the world, which was worth

Lord with a fivefold Spirit Sense, but they decided against

particular Mage Lord would likely emerge

they would also be slain by a Mage King,

with a fivefold Spirit Sense required approximately 10,000 more years

events had significant repercussions

Mage Lords perished, and even the mana

of mana had nearly doubled, revealing how low the

increased mana, many Mages were able to comprehend Concepts

more mana one was surrounded by, the clearer

of Beast Lords on the islands slightly increased, although it was still insufficient to

on weaker beasts were substantial. Beasts in the first five realms advanced at a faster rate than

was

and the Judgment Palace remained undecided about

500 more years to break the contract, after which this issue would no

they had to contend

they decided to wait until their Empress had terminated

rapidly losing Mage Lords. Thus, they chose to relinquish

was not in violation of the rules since it was merely abandoning territories, not