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

had walked into this

he had just stopped searching for power, he wouldn't need to

But he couldn't.

needed to achieve his

only purpose of his

had more purposes

onto this dark path, all

the end of the

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

wanted to reach

to

that he had already made

already come to terms

he realized the true weight of his path

and lonely journey, Jerald

A ray of light.

a place

actually that hard to walk the

hand lying in front of his

hand had Jerald's Space Ring on it, and Shang had avoided

destroyed the Communication Crystal that Relon had given Jerald,

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

He didn't move.

across

sun mercilessly shone down

was so

only saw

stood in front of the

Step.

still-standing part of the castle behind Shang, and her

the

What about King Storm?!

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

hand on

world around her

of the world around her gathered beside

do anything,

Shang didn't move.

empty eye-sockets

True Mages arrived shortly, but they

two minutes to move, and the only reason he was moving was that he was seeing someone approach in

Sylvia was returning.

expression on her face as she activated one Mana

and scooped up