[{"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-994":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},1492679,1940,"Chapter 994 €‹ 994 - New Kings","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-994",994,"\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Wester had passed away, Gregorio's workload had multiplied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't difficult for Gregorio to imitate Wester's voice and aura via his Transmission Medal, but Gregorio had to deal with a lot of things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That's what I get for letting Shang deal with this,' he thought in exhaustion. 'If I had intervened before Wester went to search for Shang, he would probably still work for me.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'At least, I only have to continue like this for another 15,000 years, and I can also make Wester retire 5,000 years before his natural end.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Gregorio was trying to deal with Wester's workload, the world was entering a period of peace and hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more Abomination Lords!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more war!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more Shang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war had been going on for over 20,000 years, which meant that several generations of Ancestral Mages had been born and died during the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancestral Mages could live for 5,000 years, and four generations of those had been born into war and died while the war was still raging on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the oldest Mage Lords and the Mage Kings could remember a time before the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the war was finally over!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even better, the worsening situation with the Abominations had also ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Mages and more powerful knew of the Child of Calamity, and they knew that the Child of Calamity hadn't increased in power for a very long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew who the Child of Calamity was, but they knew that the Child of Calamity had to be around 25,000 years old or even older.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This created three possibilities, and all of them were not that bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, the Child of Calamity was very close to running out of longevity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two, the Child of Calamity had died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three, there had never been a Child of Calamity this time, and the Abominations had just increased in power naturally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These cases all didn't matter since the Empress of Death had found a way to get rid of the most powerful Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With enough time, she would probably also find a way to deal with the weaker Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people argued that this didn't make a lot of sense. After all, Abomination Lords were more powerful than Ancestral Abominations. So, how could it be harder to stop Ancestral Abominations from appearing than Abomination Lords?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Empress of Death could get rid of Abomination Lords, she should also be able to get rid of weaker Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some people also had very strong counterarguments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In order to filter something smaller and weaker, the filter needs to be more precise and more advanced. Therefore, it is easier to stop Abomination Lords from appearing than Ancestral Abominations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, if it were so easy to stop weaker Abominations from appearing, why had the first three Realms of the Abominations always appeared throughout history?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people believed that Kali would one day be able to deal with the weaker Abominations as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In general, people were very hopeful, and many people would rather look at a more positive future than a grim one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the powerful Ancestral Mages and Mage Lords thought about the friends and family they had lost to the Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abominations had destroyed such a significant part of the world, and they had killed so many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the world had a shot at getting rid of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everything calmed down, more powerful Mages were born, and within just a couple of thousand years, the population of the Mage Lords had recovered to the same level as before the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how many people died during the war, the population would always recoven\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The population of Mage Kings had also recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, in exchange, the population of Beast Kings had declined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to keep the number of Mage Kings at 90, the Emperors had decided to kill a couple of Beast Kings for Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>5,000 years after the Grand Tournament in which Shang had participated, Cynthia became a Mage King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Cynthia being a Mage King now, the Lightning Manor had seven Mage Kings again, the same number as when Shang had joined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wester, the Custodian. While Shang and Gregorio knew that he was dead, the world didn't know yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kiran, the Catastrophe King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sarah, the Starlight Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amarius, the Dawnlight King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emilia, the Heartdevil Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eluriel, the Voidspace King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cynthia, the Arctic Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The departments had also shifted around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Starlight Queen gave the Reconnaissance Department to the Voidspace King and took over the Reinforcement Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Starlight Queen also gave the second Department she had run for a while, the Research Department, to the Arctic Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After running several departments for over 20,000 years, the Starlight Queen had finally earned some peace and quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, she had also proven that her skills were invaluable, which was why she had gotten the second-most-important Department after the Administration Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Mage King of the Reinforcement Department didn't do a good job, the Lightning Manor wouldn't get new Mage Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>20,000 years ago, the Starlight Queen had been the newest Mage King, and she had to prove herself with an unimportant Department like Reconnaissance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, she had finally gotten a valuable position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>20,000 years ago, Queen Primordium ran the Reinforcement Department. Queen Primordium had been much more powerful than the Starlight Queen back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the Starlight Queen was close to being able to use the Domain Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when she finally mastered it, she could have rivaled the Queen Primordium from the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time passed, the new replaced the old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, all the Mage Kings also knew that a big change would soon take place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew that the Custodian would soon die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, they had already determined a worthy successor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kiran, the Catastrophe King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Kiran wasn't as powerful as the Custodian, he could use the Domain Spell, and he still had over 40,000 years left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bit of luck, he might even enter the top five of all Mage Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lightning Manor was recovering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad times were over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, the world would recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the dark times were over!\u003C\u002Fp>",1032,"2026-06-06T04:07:26.031Z",1,"novelbin.me","fbb053f47b842a2d06498cb26588815575954ef18a134be3f6999cdcede54520","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-995","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-993",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]