Sword God in a World of Magic

Chapter 998 998 - Silent ENd

More years passed.

By now, the world had recovered in

full.

Except for the couple of Beast Kings

that had been sacrificed for the Mage

Kings, the world had fully recovered.

While the war was technically still

ongoing, no one had truly fought in

it, and people didn't even think about

it.

There hadn't been any battles in

thousands of years.

The war didn't even feel like it

existed.

Except for the Abominations, the

world had become peaceful again.

However, the existence of the

Abominations had already become a

normality for all the people.

While Abomination Lords had

stopped appearing, Ancestral

Abominations and weaker still kept

appearing, but they had been

appearing for such a long time that

not even Mage Lords remembered a

time before them.

And if not even the Mage Lords had

witnessed a world without Ancestral

Abominations, how would the weaker

people feel?

It had always been like this.

Naturally, the appearance of the

Abominations gave the world a

certain feeling of doomsday, but the

Empress of Death represented hope.

She had already managed to get rid of

Abomination Lords.

At some point, she could also get rid

of Ancestral Abominations!

They were sure!

After tens of thousands of years of

terrifying war, the world was finally

in an age of hope and peace.

Yet, while the general public looked

at the development of the world with

bright eyes, the Mage Kings and

Mage Emperors felt very different.

The closer they got to the Ultimate

Tournament, the more worried they

got.

All of them had already seen

Abaddon's power before, and they all

knew that he could fight them.

He wouldn't even need to become a

Mage Emperor.

Of course, if two Emperors attacked

him, he probably wouldn't win.

But what after he became a Mage

Emperor?

Then, they would all need to fight

him simultaneously.

It was really dangerous.

In secret, many of the Emperors had

already come to talk to Gregorio in

private.

"Hey, now that all of this is over, do

you really want to go through with

the Ultimate Tournament?" they

asked. "After all, you wanted this

tournament for your warrior, right?"

One had to remember that the

tournament only existed because

Gregorio had threatened everyone

with releasing the Archivist.

If Gregorio stopped threatening them

with the Archivist, they could just not

hold the tournament.

Yet, Gregorio shot all of them down.

"You wanted this," Gregorio answered

with annoyance. "Originally, I helped

Shang because I wanted him to kill

Abaddon. While I can't negotiate with

Abaddon, I was able to negotiate with

Shang."

"I wanted Shang to kill Abaddon, give

him a couple of Kings and Emperors

so that he can become a God, and

make him deal with the

Abominations."

"But because of you, he kept

destroying himself more and more

until he became something that I

don't even recognize anymore. How

am I supposed to stop someone like

that from destroying the world?"

"But then, he died."

"And now, you're stuck with

Abaddon?

"So, no, I won't stop threatening you

with the Archivist."

"If the tournament doesn't happen, I

will release the Archivist."

"You dug your grave. Now, you have

to lie in it."

Obviously, the Mage Emperors

weren't the biggest fans of Gregorio's

answer.

Most of them just argued more.

Some of them reacted with

aggression and called Gregorio a sore

loser.

And one of them, Linastra

Boomwitch, even agreed with

Gregorio to a certain extent.

Linastra Boomwitch said that she had

been on the sidelines for too long

and that she should have supported

him.

But Gregorio just said that it was

already too late.

The damage was already done.

The fate of the world was set.

He told her that the world would end

in about 5,000 years after the

Ultimate Tournament.

Of course, Linastra didn't fully believe

that.

After all, the final battle between the

Emperors and Abaddon hadn't

happened yet.

There was a real chance that they

could win.

Gregorio didn't answer.

When Linastra left, Gregorio just

looked towards the northwest.

He saw Shang, or more precisely,

what Shang had become.

The more time passed, the less

human Shang became.

By now, his body didn't even look

human.

Shang was no longer human.

In fact, Shang wasn't even an

Abomination.

Shang had become his own being.

The most fitting word Gregorio could

come up with was Nightmare.

Shang had become a Nightmare.

An enemy to all life and existence.

The end of the world.

Shang had become the apocalypse.

Gregorio knew that the world was

already over.

More years passed, and the Ultimate

Tournament was already on the

horizon.

A couple of old Mage Kings died, and

new ones were crowned, but none of

that mattered anymore.

The Mage Emperors were fully

focused on the Ultimate Tournament,

and they came up with many

strategies.

They wanted to include Gregorio in

their meetings, but Gregorio

dechned.

He was done with them.

Eventually, only a thousand years

were left.

Shang was now 50,000 years old, and

he had been in the Sword King Realm

for 21,000 years.

For 21,000 years, he had worked on

nothing but his power, and his results

were terrifying.

Shang's power kept escalating to the

point that he wouldn't even need any

Abominations to destroy the world.

He wouldn't even need to reach the

Ninth Realm.

He could just tear Aterium's reality

slowly apart.

When Gregorio saw Shang, he felt

only one thing.

Acceptance.

The world didn't know, but the end

was already certain.

There would be no excitement.

There would be no last epic battle.

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