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

walked into this

he had just stopped searching for power, he wouldn't need to be surrounded by this darkness

But he couldn't.

to achieve his

the only purpose

more purposes

since Shang had stepped onto this dark path,

the end of

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

to

needed to

believed that he

believed that he had already come to terms with

true weight

and lonely journey, Jerald

A ray of light.

nice in a place of nothing but

actually that hard to walk

lying in front of

it,

that Relon had given Jerald, Relon

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

He didn't move.

wind blew across

mercilessly shone

was so

only

of the hand

Step.

castle behind Shang, and

of the

What about King Storm?!

for organizing everything

she saw Shang's husk and the solitary hand on the ground, she took

the world around her

power of the world around her

could say or do anything, her

Shang didn't move.

empty eye-sockets only

True Mages arrived shortly, but they died as

the only reason he was moving was that

Sylvia was returning.

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

and scooped up

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