[{"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-998":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},1492683,1940,"Chapter 998  998 - Silent ENd","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-998",998,"\u003Cp>998 Chapter 998 - Silent End\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the world had recovered in full.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the couple of Beast Kings that had been sacrificed for the Mage Kings, the world had fully recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the war was technically still ongoing, no one had truly fought in it, and people didn't even think about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There hadn't been any battles in thousands of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war didn't even feel like it existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the Abominations, the world had become peaceful again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the existence of the Abominations had already become a normality for all the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Abomination Lords had stopped appearing, Ancestral Abominations and weaker still kept appearing, but they had been appearing for such a long time that not even Mage Lords remembered a time before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if not even the Mage Lords had witnessed a world without Ancestral Abominations, how would the weaker people feel?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had always been like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, the appearance of the Abominations gave the world a certain feeling of doomsday, but the Empress of Death represented hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already managed to get rid of Abomination Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At some point, she could also get rid of Ancestral Abominations!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were sure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tens of thousands of years of terrifying war, the world was finally in an age of hope and peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, while the general public looked at the development of the world with bright eyes, the Mage Kings and Mage Emperors felt very different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer they got to the Ultimate Tournament, the more worried they got.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them had already seen Abaddon's power before, and they all knew that he could fight them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn't even need to become a Mage Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if two Emperors attacked him, he probably wouldn't win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what after he became a Mage Emperor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, they would all need to fight him simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was really dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In secret, many of the Emperors had already come to talk to Gregorio in private.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, now that all of this is over, do you really want to go through with the Ultimate Tournament?\" they asked. \"After all, you wanted this tournament for your warrior, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One had to remember that the tournament only existed because Gregorio had threatened everyone with releasing the Archivist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Gregorio stopped threatening them with the Archivist, they could just not hold the tournament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Gregorio shot all of them down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You wanted this,\" Gregorio answered with annoyance. \"Originally, I helped Shang because I wanted him to kill Abaddon. While I can't negotiate with Abaddon, I was able to negotiate with Shang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wanted Shang to kill Abaddon, give him a couple of Kings and Emperors so that he can become a God, and make him deal with the Abominations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But because of you, he kept destroying himself more and more until he became something that I don't even recognize anymore. How am I supposed to stop someone like that from destroying the world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But then, he died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now, you're stuck with Abaddon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, no, I won't stop threatening you with the Archivist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the tournament doesn't happen, I will release the Archivist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You dug your grave. Now, you have to lie in it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, the Mage Emperors weren't the biggest fans of Gregorio's answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them just argued more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of them reacted with aggression and called Gregorio a sore loser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one of them, Linastra Boomwitch, even agreed with Gregorio to a certain extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Linastra Boomwitch said that she had been on the sidelines for too long and that she should have supported him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gregorio just said that it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage was already done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fate of the world was set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told her that the world would end in about 5,000 years after the Ultimate Tournament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Linastra didn't fully believe that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the final battle between the Emperors and Abaddon hadn't happened yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a real chance that they could win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio didn't answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Linastra left, Gregorio just looked towards the northwest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Shang, or more precisely, what Shang had become.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more time passed, the less human Shang became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, his body didn't even look human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was no longer human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Shang wasn't even an Abomination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had become his own being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most fitting word Gregorio could come up with was Nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had become a Nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enemy to all life and existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The end of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had become the apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio knew that the world was already over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More years passed, and the Ultimate Tournament was already on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple of old Mage Kings died, and new ones were crowned, but none of that mattered anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mage Emperors were fully focused on the Ultimate Tournament, and they came up with many strategies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted to include Gregorio in their meetings, but Gregorio declined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was done with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, only a thousand years were left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was now 50,000 years old, and he had been in the Sword King Realm for 21,000 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 21,000 years, he had worked on nothing but his power, and his results were terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's power kept escalating to the point that he wouldn't even need any Abominations to destroy the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn't even need to reach the Ninth Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could just tear Aterium's reality slowly apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gregorio saw Shang, he felt only one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acceptance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world didn't know, but the end was already certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There would be no excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There would be no last epic battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's power had reached places that no one had even dared imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had become so powerful that he could probably even fight the Archivist...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Peak Sword King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no battle for survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without anyone noticing, Shang had already become the undisputed strongest being in the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already become the ruler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might not be a God, but he was already one in practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gregorio just looked at the world with melancholy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the last millennium, Gregorio just watched the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like watching a loved one slowly dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, it was time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 50,000 years were up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultimate Tournament was here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The end of the world had arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>",1057,"2026-06-06T04:07:26.031Z",1,"novelbin.me","1800b3eb658e92ee742f58fbab60760a0b78299c587b813d7a5e403c128bd5a1","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-999","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-997",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]