Sword God in a World of Magic

962 Chapter 962 — Schemes

A woman with whitish—grey hair stepped out of the portal. She wore the typical purple robes of the Lightning Manor, and her demeanor seemed quite similar to the Starlight Queen.

She seemed to be filled with pride but didn't seem too distant.

However, the Emperors could feel through her deception.

The woman was shocked, infuriated, and scared.

She knew how powerful her opponents would be, and she knew that she wasn't ready to participate in the tournament yet. Even more, due to Shang participating, she also knew that this would be a death tournament!

If the Emperors were in agreement, they could agree to let everyone fight to the death.

Usually, fights erred on the side of life, which meant that if two opponents were not in agreement, killing someone was prohibited and would result in the execution of the killer.

But if the Emperors agreed to a death tournament, that would shift.

It would mean that if two opponents were not in agreement, the fight would be to the death.

So, the loser would only be able to survive if both teams decided to make this a benign fight.

Naturally, the woman was not happy at all that she was here.

She would have become a Mage King in the future!

But now, she would die because the Lightning Emperor sacrificed her just to get a tiny chance at getting his favorite young master to become a Warrior King or whatever!

Of course, the majority of her hate was focused on Shang, but as soon as she saw him, her hatred vanished, replaced by fear.

What even was this?!

The Mage had been incredibly prideful. After all, she was the only Mage Lord with a fivefold Spirit Sense in the Lightning Manor currently!

She was the most talented Mage in an entire Empire!

Yet, when she felt Shang's Aura, she just felt inadequate and inferior.

It was like a Mage King was floating near her.

In the end, she could only accept her destiny.

"Hello, I am Cynthia Steelbright," she transmitted to Shang, "and I am a Peak Mage Lord with a fivefold Spirit Sense. I have a Dual Affinity for Metal and Lightning."

"Attack, defense, speed, versatility," Shang transmitted back. "Which is your best?" Shang's voice felt extremely dark and threatening to Cynthia, but she could still handle it.

"Attack and speed," she answered. "You?"

Shang answered but

do you mean?" Cynthia

Shang didn't answer.

to annoy Shang, which was why she remained

same time, the Emperors were giving their teams instructions on how to proceed in this tournament. After all, the goal wasn't to win but

malicious tournament?" Kali

Gus

"Malicious," Brutus Cesare continued.

"Malicious."

"Malicious."

"Malicious."

said with a

Linastra Boomwitch said with

eliciting a couple of glances

agreement. This is a malicious

if their

both of them say it

both of them say it is benign, it is

and the other says it is

were not the biggest fans

liked working together with others, and she

of a conflict-averse person, she also preferred direct

but she knew that almost all the fights would be benign since they didn't want

always," Kali continued, "the opponents will be

a huge cloud of Death Mana that floated in front of

"Throw in your tokens."

all took out a couple of small balls and threw them into

Death was a Spell that made the level five

move around in random directions, pushing

movement couldn't be controlled by any Mage since it was simply far

thought as he looked at the silent Kali. 'She is not just any

of drawing lots, which meant that they believed that

yet, What if she actually

had hidden it very well

lots were rapidly getting shuffled in the

teams were made of two Mages with fourfold Spirit Senses. In fact,there were seven of these teams, which meant that there were

of them

one was Brutus Cesar's team. His team had someone with a fivefold

had comprehended a level six Concept could fight two enemies with a fourfold Spirit

gap in power

team would win under

Shang wasn't too

the tokens shot out of the Void of Death and landed in the