Sword God in a World of Magic

The war continued, but Shang was nowhere to be seen.

The Mage Kings knew that they hadn't killed Shang, but they knew that they had permanently crippled him. They didn't know how exactly they had crippled him, but all three Mage Emperors had confirmed that the Lightning Emperor had been truthful.

Maybe it was whatever allowed him to survive until the Lightning Emperor appeared?

The warrior had managed to survive for nearly two full seconds under the assault of a Peak Mage King.

Something like that was way too powerful for someone in the Early Seventh Realm.

The Lightning Emperor had probably given the warrior something that could defend him from a Mage King, but it couldn't be that powerful.

Even if a child had a gun, it would still need to hit the attacking eagle with it.

A warrior in the Early Seventh Realm couldn't be fast enough to hit someone like a Peak Mage King.

Even more, the amount of Mana had to be limited. In two seconds, a Peak Mage King could kill a Peak Mage Emperor if they just stood still and didn't move.

This meant that the warrior must have used something that allowed him to survive for a couple of milliseconds longer.

Naturally, the warrior couldn't have killed the Mage King.

Obviously, the Mage King had died to the Lightning Emperor's lightning.

But he still managed to survive against a Peak Mage King for a while.

Had the Lightning Manor developed some kind of secret technique that could exchange health for defense?

They weren't sure, but that also wasn't as important.

The important thing was that the menace most likely wouldn't appear for the foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, the Empires were still careful.

In the beginning, they avoided using Early and Mid Mage Lords, but after a century, they used a couple of them.

Shang didn't appear.

used a couple more after

something strange

Manor started to build an Empire-wide

explanation since this

he assured them that this wouldn't impact the battles at all and that it wouldn't even touch or interact with the barriers, flags, soldiers,

a couple of years, the Magic

Circles

Empires had no idea what the Magic Circles

written in a completely different form of Magic,

redesign the way they

allowed someone to streamline the processes of how

own Mana Pathways instead of using the ones that had been built by

the Magic Circles, and without knowing if it was even worth it or not, they didn't waste their time

they would find out what the Magic Circle did

on the frontlines of the Lightning Manor

Catastrophe King, Kiran, had been fully committed to getting rid of the Abominations inside the Lightning Manor, which was why he hadn't been part of

Catastrophe King had appeared on the frontlines meant that

Empires continued pressuring the Lightning Manor, but they

and cities, destroying their infrastructure and making it more difficult for Mage Lords to

all, the Abominations wouldn't just stop

also increased by a lot, and the other Empires knew

Manor was obviously overextending and fighting in an unsustainable way. As

Another century passed.

Lightning Manor was still

500 years passed.

Emperor changed his huge Magic Circle, and the

Another 500 years passed.

Empires had become

Manor still resisting

Abominations should have caused devastating

starting to have difficulties with

Empire for the Abomination Lords. As soon as one

couldn't even waste