[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-720":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492505,1940,"Chapter 720  720 – Outstanding","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-720",720,"\u003Cp>\"Man, I'm so excited about the matches today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's there to be excited about? This warrior will get destroyed in less than a minute.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I know, but I still want to know how he fights. I mean, he got accepted into the Contender Department, right? This means that he has a fourfold Spirit Sense like everyone else. Even if he is a warrior, there must be something special about him, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure, but he's still a warrior. He's probably extremely powerful compared to normal Mages, but we are not normal Mages, are we?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who knows? Maybe he will hold out for a couple of seconds. I want to see what a warrior can do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you two talking about? You honestly think we will get to see the warrior's power? Pfft, as if! I think he will explode before he can even show his power. Did you guys forget who his opponent is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's Erel, right? Do you know what Erel can actually do? I've never seen him fight, but I've heard he has a Dual Affinity of Time and Light.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nope, no idea. No one ever saw him fight. He is getting all his resources from all the smaller trials, and due to his Affinity, no one has challenged him to a duel yet. Also, I heard that he isn't the biggest fan of killing, which is why he never challenged anyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh, but then why did he challenge the warrior?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wouldn't you? I mean, I feel kind of insulted that a warrior is in the Hibye. I have like three friends that are nearly as powerful as me, but they still weren't accepted into the Hibye. Yet, some random warrior got accepted?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, maybe Erel just thinks that this warrior represents some easy resources. Wouldn't you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure, but it still feels weird. I mean, is Erel truly as powerful as everyone thinks? No one ever saw him fight, after all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No idea, could be, couldn't be.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several members of the Hibye were slowly arriving at the central arena. Whenever there was a life-and-death duel, everyone would be informed, and they were allowed to watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had several reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, by making this a public event, no one could accuse the Lightning Manor of choosing their favorites and having them win the duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, this was a learning opportunity for everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, it would remind everyone that the path to power was dangerous and that they could die any day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And lastly, it was to dissuade people from challenging others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, the Lightning Manor offered these life-and-death duels for everyone, but they still didn't want the students to die to each other as much. The trials were less dangerous and more efficient in increasing someone's power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By making this a public event, everyone would see what powers the winner had, allowing people to create counters for these powers. Additionally, people that were at a disadvantage against that winner would get an opportunity to see these powers and avoid falling victim to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The duels would start in ten minutes, but there were already over 400 Clouds here. There were around 50 Ancestral Mages, 90 Archmages, and nearly 300 High Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, duels only had around 50 people watching, and these people would be of the combatants' levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But due to Shang, far more people were interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted to see what a powerful warrior could do, but even more, they wanted to see a Mage dominate and destroy that warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mages were the most powerful, and since everyone here was a Mage, they wanted to see their own kind win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, the other Paths are not worthless, but they couldn't be compared to actual Mages that actually knew what they were doing. Over 99% of Mages were aimlessly creating and copying shit without knowing what the hell they were doing, at least, according to the Clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, in a way, they were right. Compared to the Clouds, every other Mage truly didn't know what they were doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their minds, even a pig could comprehend a level one Concept before becoming a High Mage. There was nothing special about comprehending only one Concept before a breakthrough, while two Concepts were the bare minimum to be considered human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only three Concepts were good in their mind, but only people that comprehended four Concepts before becoming a High Mage were truly amazing Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the level of the Hibye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Jerald had comprehended two level one Concepts before becoming a High Mage, and he had comprehended two level two Concepts as a High Mage. Maybe, with a lot of luck, he could have comprehended a third one, but that would still have been difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with these accomplishments, Jerald had been the most powerful normal Mage in Area 23, and he would have been a bit above average outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agon, King Skythunder, was more talented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had comprehended two level one Concepts before becoming a High Mage, nearly three Concepts before becoming an Archmage, and during his stay as an Assistant Supervisor, he had gotten enough resources to push to three Concepts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With three level three Concepts as an Archmage, Agon had a good shot at becoming a Boltling, someone that would be cultivated into a future Bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone that was powerful enough for an Empire to invest in them was someone truly outstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agon would become someone on the same level as that Dawn Seedling Shang had met near the Eternal Maw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agon could order Sparks around, who were powerful Peak Ancestral Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what it meant to be chosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what it meant to be a future Mage Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mage Lords were the most powerful and illustrious people outside the headquarters of any Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one ever saw any Mage Kings or any of the Mage Emperors. Nearly every single human died before ever having seen one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even over half the Mage Lords would never see a Mage King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mage Kings were legends!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that Mage Lords were essentially the rulers of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mage Lords represented the peak of power since Mage Kings basically didn't really actually exist in the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Agon had worked so long and so hard for his position as Boltling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, there was the Contender Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Clouds thought that the Boltlings were okay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of them were not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of them were even good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't really anything special or impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a bit better than average.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Clouds were so powerful that they transcended the powers of the normal world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People with a fourfold Spirit Sense were legends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were myths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew if they even existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not a level that anyone could realistically reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each Cloud represented the most talented person that had been born in the last 500 years for an area nearly 100,000 kilometers wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every Cloud was a once-in-a-trillion genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this were Earth, one Cloud represented the most outstanding person that had lived in the last 2,000 or so years on the entire planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Cloud represented the most powerful person in Earth's history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Contender Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And today, Shang would fight his first Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>",1215,"2026-06-06T04:07:22.039Z",1,"novelbin.me","242389ad9149c7009f6a539aa48254b8c688574974e7a8e055f9fe6f519d85b5","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-721","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-719",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]