[{"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-809":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},1492821,1940,"Chapter 809  809 – Gregorio","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-809",809,"\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world turned silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the watching Mage Kings or Mage Emperors could believe what they had just witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one thing to enter someone's home, but it was something entirely different to kill someone in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lightning Emperor had actually killed two Mage Kings!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This... had this ever happened before?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You forgot the past,\" the Lightning Emperor said with a cold voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the world transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky and the earth turned an ashen grey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plants and animals in the land of life all withered and died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a second, the entire land of life had transformed into a land of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, an ashen grey mist floated out of the Judgment Palace's gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grey mist wasn't imposing, huge, strong, or dominant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was merely a whisp like from a candle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist slowly floated through the air until it stopped in front of the Lightning Emperor, who only looked at it with cold eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grey whisp slowly vanished, revealing the person inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a short woman with skin as white as a corpse's and hair as black as the universe. She wore a long black dress, and her lips were deathly black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Kali, the Empress of Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, she was looking at the Lightning Emperor with an almost vacant expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having known Kali for so long, the Lightning Emperor could tell that she was absolutely furious at the moment, even if it didn't seem like it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gregorio,\" Kali spoke with a wispy and ethereal voice. \"You were the one that forgot the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio, the Lightning Emperor, only snorted. \"Did you expect that this would happen?\" Gregorio said. \"Or was this outside of your plans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Plans,\" Kali repeated with an alien tone. \"What irony. You are the one that has to resort to planning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio's eyes narrowed as they looked into Kali's. \"I don't care what you want to call your plans. The truth is that you have gone too far this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali only looked apathetically into Gregorio's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what if I did?\" she asked coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gregorio heard that, his last reservations vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali had just confirmed that she had been the one that had killed Vana!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Kali wasn't the one that did it, but Gregorio didn't know that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Kali didn't even know why Gregorio was so angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all of that didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw an opportunity to spite Gregorio, and she took it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Originally, I only wanted to pay you back double of what I owe you,\" Gregorio said, \"but if you are this willing to admit to it, it might be for the better that you leave this world and go where you belong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning exploded out of Gregorio's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And while I'm at it, I might as well send your Abomination of a son after you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You?\" Kali asked with a ridiculing tone. \"You plan on killing me?\" she asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're the one planning,\" Gregorio said as a sizable tome appeared in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm doing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the world around Gregorio seemed to warp as he gathered all of his power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali's almost dead eyes only looked at Gregorio's actions like they didn't concern her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Adam looked at the two of them with an uncomfortable expression as he scratched the back of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Man, these two are at it again,' he thought as if this situation happened constantly. 'Better to let them have their fun for a bit. I'll just look out for all the stuff around them. I don't want anyone to get hurt.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more power gathered in front of Gregorio, and just a bit later, all of it exploded forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, it was like the world had transformed into a weapon bearing down on Kali.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying mix of different elements and kinds of Mana was singing a symphony of destruction as it annihilated everything between it and its target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali just looked at it with boredom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She slowly extended her right index finger and tapped it somewhere in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Mana vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The humongous wave of destruction had vanished just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't just some random attack from the Lightning Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had actually been one of his most powerful attacks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, in front of Kali, it had seemed barely stronger than the attack of a mere Apprentice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam only watched with a worried expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hoped that Kali didn't hurt Gregorio too badly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Officially, Gregorio had counted as the second strongest in their group, but unofficially, it had always been Kali.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam still remembered how he had met Kali, or more precisely, her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Kali had been in a deep coma that she hadn't woken up from in hundreds of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew how to wake her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until Lucius came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius had awoken her and got the payment for waking her from her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius left with the group, but Adam wanted to stay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adam said that he had taken a liking to Kali, and he wanted to train her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, Kali wanted to repay Lucius for saving her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Adam and Kali trained for many years until they finally returned to Lucius' group during a deadly battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali had grown extremely powerful, and she had saved everyone in that battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That had already been quite late in their journey. Everyone had already been either Peak Ancestral Mages or Mage Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire group had already formed by that point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when Kali joined, everyone was overwhelmed by her sheer power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was more powerful than everyone except Lucius, and Lucius might even need to go all out to win against Kali if they ever fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio had always been quite powerful, but he had been on roughly the same level as everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Kali seemed like someone that could bridge the impossibly wide gap between them and Lucius, which was almost unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Gregorio truly the second most powerful?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius kept saying that, but Gregorio had never shown powers that could reach Kali's.\u003C\u002Fp>",1025,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.276Z",1,"novelbin.me","9807dfe4642b91d059f20195833e7b8d6bf6760d4359b59233e9f75a703c3c52","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-667","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-1011",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]