Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang just looked at Wester with an interested smirk, while Wester looked at Shang with narrowed eyes.

"Since when?" Wester asked.

"Since when what?" Shang asked back.

"Since when did the Ancestor know that you are the Child of Calamity?" Wester shouted with an enraged voice.

"Since I lost my legs," Shang answered.

Wester thought back to that day and realized that it had already been well over 15,000 years.

"How did you convince the Ancestor to spare you?" Wester asked.

"Spare me?" Shang repeated with mock shock.

Then, he laughed.

"Convince him?" Shang said with a smirk.

"When he found out, I was unconscious. So, I guess you could say I convinced him by lying on the ground in front of him."

When Wester heard that, he started to grit his teeth.

Shang didn't seem like he was lying.

Even more, the world resonated with his answer, which meant that it was the truth.

Of course, powerful Mage Kings could manipulate that resonance to a certain degree, but Shang wasn't a Mage.

Sadly, Shang's answer took the last bit of hope from Wester.

Maybe, the Ancestor hadn't known that Shang was the Child of Calamity?

Maybe, Shang had used some kind of Spell on the Ancestor?

Unfortunately, the simplest answer was often the correct one.

"Why?" Wester asked. "Why did the Ancestor betray us?"

"Why?" Shang repeated with a smirk.

"Honestly, I'm not quite sure myself."

"Back when I met him for the first time, he was debating killing me, but after we talked about everything for a bit, he seemed to just like me for some reason."

Wester narrowed his eyes.

That sounded like a lie!

he didn't interrupt

act like we were

as a weapon

very

promise that I will do my very

just

asked him why he was helping me," Shang said

Wester heard Shang's answers, a light appeared in his narrowed

rid of

Shang answered. "But if I can, I probably will, as long as it's not

comparison to Lucius, I actually have the

questions appear in Wester's

is

and chuckled some more. "I thought only the Emperors were blind due

like even the all-powerful Custodian isn't immune to naivety," Shang spoke with a mocking

you see it?"

was the last time an Abomination

so happened to become a Mage King, wasn't it?" Shang said with a

but Shang just continued

what happened shortly after he became a God? All the Abominations

the Child of

mind was going through

who killed him?" Shang said with a

Wester didn't know.

to kill me when

a bit and raised his right Abomination arm, showing it to

you notice?" Shang

a sevenfold

body, making

have an Affinity

mind of an Early Mage King,

given me my powers, which makes it likely that he is also the cause of the

clenched his right hand, and

attain Godhood, I will kill that God and leave this

that, everything will be left

more than shocking, but he quickly managed to wrap

finally understand how the Ancestor could

perfectly kill every Abomination before

more time passed, the less Mage Kings and

would be no more

then, no

be left, and the Abominations would consume the world

the source, Shang could stop the world from

couldn't even entertain the thought of helping

trillions, if not quadrillions, of people had