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!

didn't

he started to act like we were friends. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure

as a

just very

my

was just

him why he was helping

heard Shang's answers, a light appeared in his

of the Abominations?"

can, I probably will, as long as it's not too much

comparison to Lucius, I actually have the power to defend

questions appear in Wester's

what? And why is the

some more. "I thought only the Emperors were blind due to their relationship with

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

you see it?"

Abominations. When was the last time an Abomination King

so happened to become a Mage

widened, but Shang just continued

shortly after he became a God? All the Abominations became weaker, and we only

Child of

going through millions of scenarios

who killed him?" Shang said with

Wester didn't know.

able to kill me when it is

raised his right Abomination arm, showing it to Wester in

you notice?"

sevenfold

body, making me

Affinity for

mind is already equal to the mind of an Early Mage King,

powers, which makes it likely that he is also the cause of the Abomination

clenched his right hand, and

kill

that, everything will be left to

Wester had been hearing were more than shocking, but he quickly managed

Wester could finally understand how the Ancestor could have been convinced to help

knew that the Abominations represented the end of the world. As long as they couldn't perfectly kill every Abomination

Mage Kings and Beast Kings

there would be

then, no

and the Abominations would

rid of the source, Shang could

thought of helping

trillions, if not quadrillions, of people had