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.

to walk through

Shang had walked into

power, he wouldn't need to be surrounded by this

But he couldn't.

to achieve his

the only purpose of

had more

stepped onto this dark path, all the other purposes

the end of the path, no matter

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

wanted to reach

needed to

believed that he

had already come to

true weight of

and lonely journey, Jerald

A ray of light.

a place of

actually that hard

looked at the hand lying

it, and Shang had avoided it

the Communication Crystal that Relon had given Jerald, Relon would

seconds, Shang's empty eye-sockets only

He didn't move.

across

bright sun mercilessly shone down

was so

Shang only saw

stood in front of the

Step.

of the still-standing part of the castle behind

the castle was

What about King Storm?!

was one of the True Mages responsible for organizing everything in the castle, and she

she saw Shang's husk and the solitary hand on

world around her

power of the world around

anything,

Shang didn't move.

eye-sockets

more True Mages arrived shortly, but they died as soon as they

was moving was that he was seeing someone approach

Sylvia was returning.

face as she

stepped forward and scooped

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