A harsh wind blew.

On top of a hill was a broken castle.

Mere moments ago, this castle had been whole.

Now, the back of the castle was missing.

What had once been a room was now a ruin.

Half-broken walls were behind Shang as the bright sun shone down on him.

The bright sun didn't reflect Shang's feelings, but the weather didn't care about the feelings of living beings.

Shang's body had become a husk. Nearly all his muscles had shrunk to a sickly degree, making him look like a skeleton with merely some skin on it.

The two empty eye-sockets only strengthened this perception.

About 140 years ago, Shang sacrificed his left eye.

Today, he had sacrificed his right eye.

Shang couldn't possibly sacrifice his arms or legs since that would severely weaken his Battle-Strength.

Organs couldn't be sacrificed because that would reduce Shang's maximum life energy tremendously.

The ears or the nose weren't enough to achieve any kind of significant power with Entropy.

Shang had decided to go with the eye.

Due to his Spirit Sense, he wasn't reliant on vision anymore.

However, all of this was actually only of secondary importance.

In fact, Shang didn't even really think about what to sacrifice.

His mind had been someplace else.

Jerald.

His friend.

His only friend.

His closest companion.

Shang's life had always been surrounded by a cloud of darkness.

His Affinity made it impossible for him to have friends or companions.

His goal made it impossible for him to have friends or companions.

He was alone.

The world was dark.

His life was dark.

Shang was willing to walk

Shang had walked into this

he wouldn't need to be surrounded by

But he couldn't.

to

the only

he had more

but ever since Shang had stepped onto this dark path, all the other purposes

the end of the path, no

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

wanted to reach

to reach

he had already made

already come to

he realized the true weight of his path only

lonely journey, Jerald had

A ray of light.

place of

that hard to walk the

looked at the hand lying in front

on it, and Shang

destroyed the Communication Crystal that Relon had given Jerald, Relon

several seconds, Shang's empty eye-sockets only stared at the

He didn't move.

blew across the now exposed

shone down on the

world was

only

in front of the

Step.

of the still-standing part of the castle behind Shang, and her eyes widened in horror at what she

of the castle

What about King Storm?!

the True Mages responsible for organizing everything in the castle, and she had

and the solitary hand on the ground, she took

world around her

power of the world around her gathered

do anything, her head separated from

Shang didn't move.

empty eye-sockets

arrived shortly, but they died

and the only reason he was moving was

Sylvia was returning.

face

forward and scooped up the

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