Sword God in a World of Magic

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 this

Shang had walked

searching for power, he wouldn't need

But he couldn't.

to achieve

was the only purpose

he had more purposes

Shang had stepped onto

reach the end of the path,

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

to reach

to reach

always believed that he had already

believed that he had already come to

realized the true weight of his

dark and lonely journey, Jerald

A ray of light.

in a place

that hard

the hand lying in front of

Space Ring on it, and Shang had avoided it on

the Communication Crystal that Relon had given Jerald, Relon would know that Jerald had

empty eye-sockets only stared

He didn't move.

blew across the

bright sun mercilessly shone down on

world was

only

front of the hand without

Step.

woman walked out of the still-standing part of the castle behind Shang, and

the castle was

What about King Storm?!

organizing everything in the castle, and she had heard

husk and the solitary hand on the ground, she

the world around

power of the world around

she could say or do anything, her head

Shang didn't move.

eye-sockets

shortly, but

was moving was that he was seeing someone approach in

Sylvia was returning.

shocked and horrified expression on her face as she activated one Mana Step after the

stepped forward and scooped up the