[{"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-818":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},1492850,1940,"Chapter 818  818 – Flag","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-818",818,"\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang sat on top of a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the war would officially start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Shang was already inside the Zone he had been assigned to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had seen a couple of other Ancestral Mages in his Zone but not even a single other warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, the number of Ancestral Mages in this Zone was not nearly as high as in other Zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How come?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this Zone unimportant?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, the opposite, actually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was probably the most important Zone of the entire Lightning Manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the southeastern corner of the Lightning Manor, the only Zone that bordered three other Empires instead of one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zone wasn't very big, only 100,000 kilometers wide and long, but it was extremely important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empires were only allowed to attack a territory that shared a border with their own territories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, only a small part of the Zone bordered the Judgment Palace's territory, but if that small part got conquered by the Judgment Palace, they would gain access to more territories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like infecting a corner square of a chessboard with a disease that could only affect bordering squares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disease could infect one square, then two at once, three at once, four at once, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the Lightning Manor couldn't allow the Judgment Palace to even gain a single piece of territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why Shang and the strongest Ancestral Mages of every level were in this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place alone had 20 Ancestral Mage Clouds, which was insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But due to that, there were also not many normal Ancestral Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One had to remember that the number of normal Ancestral Mages is many times greater than the number of Cloud Ancestral Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since the war favored quality over quantity the higher the Realm was, there also was no need for many other Ancestral Mages in this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had noticed that the levels of the Cloud Ancestral Mages around him were split evenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were five Peak Ancestral Mages, five Late Ancestral Mages, five Mid Ancestral Mages, and five Early Ancestral Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this had been brought here to defend from the Judgment Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, based on the composition of the defensive forces, it was apparent that this would not be a normal war where two armies just clashed with each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something like that was too chaotic and would allow for too much interference of irrelevant powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, the current and future powers of the Empire were supposed to be tested in this war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way this war would be fought was much more orderly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang and the Ancestral Mages kept waiting in their Zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Mages were not quite confident in Shang's power or the Lightning Manor's plan, but they still followed orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two more hours,\" a Bolt supervising this territory told everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>eαglesnovel`c,om Then, he looked at Shang. \"I think you should plant your flag now, just to be sure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang slowly stood up and flew towards the southeast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped above a thick and thriving forest filled with weaker beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area around Shang actually didn't have any valuable beasts or resources, making it economically unimportant, but that didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was important was the political value of an area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the political value of this area was extremely important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, it was the most important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The length of the border the two Empires were sharing was only about 5,000 kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These 5,000 kilometers blocked an entire Empire from invading the Lightning Manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang stopped around 10,000 kilometers away from the border of the Judgment Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He summoned a huge purple flag and rammed it into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The huge flag had a big six on it and a two stars above the six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six represented the Realm, and the stars represented the level inside that Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This flag was something very important, and there were not many of them available in each Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Defender Flag, and there was only one flag per level, which came to five per Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Shang put the flag into the ground, a barrier with a diameter of 5,000 kilometers appeared around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier was transparent and didn't block anything yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as soon as someone in the Early Sixth Realm entered, it would close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This single barrier covered the entire border to the Judgment Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone from the Judgment Palace wanted to enter the Lightning Manor, they would need to pass through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, Shang just waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, everything was calm, but in two hours, things would turn chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Ancestral Mages in the Zone were waiting in the center of the Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to how the war was fought, they didn't need to wait near the borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone waited for the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, all the Empires held their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would every Empire suddenly attack every other Empire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would no one attack immediately and just watch how things progressed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would there be a couple of skirmishes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next two hours for the longest two hours of everyone's life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when they were up…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empires just silently waited for anything to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, that was for the southeastern half of Aterium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While five of the Empires felt nothing, the four Empires in the center and northwest of Aterium certainly felt the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperors were all angry with the Lightning Emperor, which was why they wanted to attack his Empire the most right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, every other Empire saw nothing happen to their borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Lightning Manor…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING! DING! DING! DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the two hours were up, one person after the other shot into the Lightning Empire across all their borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was always only one person charging forward alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the people of the Lightning Manor saw these people, they didn't attack immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One High Mage from the Twilight Dusk Empire stopped 500 kilometers into a Zone for High Mages of the Lightning Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, that Mage took out a big flag in the shape of a cross and rammed it into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A barrier appeared with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like Shang's barrier, this barrier was transparent and didn't block anyone yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fluctuations of the barrier told everyone who saw it that the person in the middle of the barrier was a Mid High Mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DING! DING! DING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many other flags and barriers were planted into the ground along the Lightning Manor's borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All barriers showed the power of the person controlling the flag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they showed one more thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A timer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a timer counting down from 60 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the person controlling the flag was not in a fight and still alive when the timer reached zero, everything inside the barrier would be claimed by the attacking Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Bolt looked at the barriers that had been created in her Zone and looked at the warriors and Mages waiting behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she assigned fitting people for every barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Mid High Mage passed through the barrier the other Mid High Mage had created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the barrier closed and changed color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These barriers and flags were designed by the Emperors, and as soon as they closed, it was impossible for any Spirit Sense to enter them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That included Mage Kings and Mage Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Mana could pass through in order not to starve the people inside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier would only turn transparent again when one of the two people died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was to keep the powers of the winning soldier secret from the other Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, only people of the same level were allowed to attack a person inside a barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was where Shang's flag differed from all the other flags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's flag was Defender Flag, which meant that he had the initiative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of having to wait for someone to create a barrier, he could set his own barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Judgment Palace sent an extremely powerful Peak Ancestral Mage, Shang couldn't possibly kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as long as they only sent Early Ancestral Mages…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Shang's job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He alone would block the forces of the Judgment Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most important position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And naturally, the other Empires would take note of the defender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, everyone would know who Shang was.\u003C\u002Fp>",1409,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.276Z",1,"novelbin.me","c5a6585d1bbc2626cebb8bd312917e54ab37cf3ab8a44d87fdac04b2f6024a84","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-1022","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-676",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]