[{"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-833":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},1492898,1940,"Chapter 833  833 – He's The Child Of Calamity!","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-833",833,"\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside of Shang's territory, several Mage Kings from the enemy Empires were watching him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, there was a huge Magic Circle that stopped everyone from the Lightning Manor from looking over, which meant that Shang's current state was completely unknown to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings saw that Shang would only be able to survive for a couple more days, at most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already extremely surprising that he managed to survive until now, but it wasn't impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings from the Judgment Palace were especially interested in Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had sacrificed over 30 million Archmages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was about a quarter of all Archmages living inside the Judgment Palace Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mass genocide that hadn't been seen in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, not everyone was happy with the plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Empires complained and said that creating Pits of Death was against the law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings of the Judgment Palace admitted and said that the other Empires were right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, they would pay whatever the other Empires deemed to be a fitting price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for now, they would continue to create this Pit of Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since this was an action sanctioned by an entire Empire, the fines coming toward them in the future were more than brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fines would probably be in the hundreds of Grade Eight Mana Crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all of this would be worth it as long as Shang died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing Shang represented killing a future Mage King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings were watching Shang the entire time, just waiting for him to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he would be dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHING!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, time seemed to stop as something happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eyes of the Mage Kings widened in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you serious?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the barrier, something appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a humongous being made of black scales, muscles, and tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an Ancestral Abomination!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as it appeared, all the Death Mana immediately rushed toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, Death Mana didn't move for anything, but as soon as an Abomination was present, the Death Mana was attracted to the Abomination like any other kind of Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emotions of the watching Mage Kings went crazy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would the Abomination kill Shang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge amount of blood and Death Mana was absorbed by the Abomination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It walked towards the south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abominations didn't immediately explode when they appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The normal way Abominations operated was to absorb a lot of Mana first to prepare for their eventual explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most crucial moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was necessary to kill the Abomination before it could absorb a lot of Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it would explode, even if someone managed to kill it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After absorbing enough Mana, the Abominations usually walked in one direction, using their Domain to destroy all the Mana around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would only explode when threatened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, the Abomination had absorbed around 50% of all the Death Mana inside the barrier before walking toward the south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Mage Kings saw that, they gritted their teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This lucky bastard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't unusual for Abominations to appear inside these barriers. These barriers appeared randomly and quite frequently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, due to the chaotic forces operating on the frontlines, predicting the appearance of an Abomination was extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't even the first Abomination that had appeared in one of the Zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had been hundreds in the last year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there had only been about five Ancestral Abominations. The others had been Arch Abominations or High Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage King responsible for the assault from the Judgment Palace nearly exploded in frustration and anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Really?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Abomination walked towards the south, it eventually encountered the barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It extended one of its claws and touched it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier shook under the stress and eventually broke apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's flag blew into pieces, and the barrier was completely destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the barrier vanished, a humongous storm of fire devoured the Abomination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storm of fire suddenly expanded to a size of nearly 500 kilometers wide, but it quickly pressed together again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the Mage Kings had killed the Abomination and used his Fire Mana to contain the explosion of the Abomination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancestral Abominations were powerful, but a Mage King was incomparably more powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings looked on as nearly 80% of the Death Mana had been pushed out of Shang's territory after the barrier's destruction and the explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>30 million Archmages…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sacrificed for nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I refuse to believe this was a coincidence!\" the Mage King from the Judgment Palace shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Mage Kings looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The timing was too perfect!\" the Mage King shouted again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she pointed at the distant Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's the Child of Calamity!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want him tested!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Mage Kings furrowed their brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Child of Calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had almost forgotten that the Child of Calamity was the very reason for all these Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Kings looked at each other and nodded one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the Mage Kings took out a Communication Crystal and contacted his Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brutus Cesar furrowed his brows when he heard about what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Child of Calamity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding and eliminating the Child of Calamity was the highest priority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was even more important than winning the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Brutus Cesar wanted to do nothing but get rid of Shang, but he had to be honest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he contacted Kali, Amon, and Gregorio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit Senses of all four of them reached the place where Shang was currently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to make it fair, all four of them would investigate Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All four of them looked at Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the feeling of being watched reached new heights of intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang felt like he was inside a dimension filled with nothing but humongous eyes that were looking at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple of seconds later, the Mage Emperors were done with their investigations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing unusual about Shang's Affinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They concluded that he had a Dual Affinity of Light and Darkness with quite a lot of talent in the Fire and Ice Affinities as well, but that was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had certainly won the lottery in terms of Affinities, but he wasn't the Child of Calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>",1045,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.276Z",1,"novelbin.me","969557cc57bcdc738cbadc3ff6db2a5f9ea016812d12be7da297f5086ffab372","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-834","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-697",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]