Sword God in a World of Magic

CRACK!

Another one of Shang's swords broke.

SHING!

One of Shang's tentacles was cut off by the Archivist's floating sword and torn apart.

As Shang's weapons slowly started to vanish, more and more attacks hit him.

With fewer weapons, Shang couldn't defend himself as well anymore.

Kali glanced at Gregorio.

Gregorio didn't show any reaction.

By now, Kali wasn't certain anymore whether or not she had judged Gregorio's demeanor correctly.

She had thought that Gregorio trusted Shang's power, but maybe he had just grown apathetic to the outcome.

Kali knew Gregorio, and she could imagine that Gregorio felt quite some regret regarding supporting such a monster.

Gregorio was not telling Kali to watch, but he also wasn't telling her to interfere.

If Gregorio trusted Shang's power, he should have told Kali and Linastra that they didn't need to worry.

Yet, he wasjust doing nothing.

Kali looked back at Shang and noticed that his speed of regeneration wasn't nearly fast enough to keep up with the new images.

Then, Kali looked at Abaddon and realized that he was about 70% done.

At this moment, plans formed in Kali's mind.

The Archivist didn't care who won. He only cared about killing the Child of Calamity.

So, when Shang died, the Archivist would also leave.

This meant that they would only need to fight five Emperors.

And when Abaddon became a Mage Emperor, that wouldn't be a problem.

Even more, Shang, this ridiculous monster, would be dead, giving Abaddon sole power over Aterium!

After some calculations, Kali realized that Shang would die when Abaddon was only 80% done.

At that moment, all the Emperors would immediately attack them, and with Gregorio's apathetic mindset, it was very likely that he would only watch.

'The warrior needs to survive for longer,' Kali thought

The next moment, Kali looked at Linastra, who nodded back.

BANG! BANG!

Kali and Linastra shot towards the Emperors and attacked them.

With fury and hatred, the Emperors stopped attacking Shang in order to deal with Kali and Linastra's attacks.

The Archivist glanced over, but he wasn't worried.

The Child of Calamity had lost over half its limbs, and it couldn't defend itself from the Archivist's attacks anymore.

The only thing Kali's and Linastra's interference accomplished was to give Shang a bit more time to live.

Naturally, the Archivist knew that this was exactly their goal, but he didn't care.

The Child of Calamity would die, and that would be all that's important.

As Shang grew weaker and weaker, the Archivist glanced at Abaddon.

hegemon will be born,' the Archivist thought. 'Will another period of suppression

had always been incredibly

most of the time, he was

true hegemon appeared, he became

Volstad, and the next one would be

be so bad,' the Archivist

CRACK!

torso broke off, and he gritted his

screamed in

this!" Shang shouted at

are the reason why I can't

Archivist only looked at Shang with a serious

malicious smirk appeared on Shang's

it, no one

the instincts of all the present Emperors

Archivist narrowed his eyes, and the intensity of

on the Horn. Obviously,

hope you all

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Shang's body exploded.

did their best to resist the strike, but they quickly noticed that they didn't need

somehow managed to divert

of destroying everything around Shang, it exploded towards the south as a

his I-Iorn

legendary and ancient artifact was

of the most powerful beast that had ever

didn't regret the

he hadn't sacrificed his Horn, nearly 20% of Aterium would have

only the middle southern edge and some water

was far better than the

later, the explosion

Shang had died.

Child of Calamity

Archivist took a deep breath and threw another glance at the

Abaddon glanced back.

He didn't seem worried.

attacks of the Emperors, and they

was already over 90%

more, and Abaddon would

more anxious as they strengthened their

quickly shot past

Abaddon glanced at Gregorio.

Gregorio didn't do anything.

forward like none of this had anything to

narrowed his eyes at

BANG!

was being deflected as

stopped absorbing

a fight, he couldn't

fact, it

forced to use the Mana he had absorbed, and

he would have used up all the Mana he had absorbed in the past

be impossible for him to

and Kali looked at Gregorio with

Why wasn't he helping?!

wasn't he doing

he know that he would

to look at the battling

a hegemon wouldn't be

maybe, that was

The fighting intensified.

with more and

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