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

act like we were friends. Honestly,

as a

was just very

I will do my very best to stop the

maybe, he was just a lonely

never asked him why he was helping me," Shang said with a

Shang's answers, a light appeared in

get rid of the Abominations?"

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

comparison to Lucius, I actually have the power to defend

several questions appear in Wester's

yourself? From what? And why is the

glanced at Wester and chuckled some more. "I thought only the Emperors were blind due to their relationship

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

see it?"

last time

happened to become a Mage King, wasn't it?"

eyes widened, but Shang just

the Abominations became weaker, and

Child of Calamity has

going through millions of

Shang said with a

Wester didn't know.

whoever killed him won't be able to kill me when it is time,"

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

you notice?" Shang

have a sevenfold

Abomination body, making me

Affinity for all the

an Early Mage King, while

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

his right hand, and the surrounding

kill that God and leave

will be

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

finally understand how the Ancestor could have been convinced to help

As long as they couldn't perfectly kill every Abomination before it could absorb any Mana, they couldn't stop the

the less Mage Kings

be

no

be left, and the Abominations would consume the

the source, Shang

even entertain the thought

of Shang, trillions, if not quadrillions, of people had