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

fact, Shang had walked into this darkness

searching for power, he wouldn't need to be surrounded

But he couldn't.

needed to achieve

only purpose of his

had more purposes back

onto this dark path, all

to reach 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

he had already come to terms

true weight of his

this dark and lonely journey,

A ray of light.

place of

wasn't actually that hard to walk the

at the hand lying in front of

on it, and Shang had

he destroyed the Communication Crystal that Relon had given Jerald,

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

He didn't move.

across the now exposed

bright sun mercilessly shone

was so

only

stood in front of

Step.

walked out of the still-standing part of the castle behind

the

What about King Storm?!

responsible for organizing everything in the castle, and she had

the solitary hand on

the world around her

around her

say or do anything, her head separated from

Shang didn't move.

eye-sockets only stared

more True Mages arrived shortly, but they

he was moving was

Sylvia was returning.

and horrified expression on her face as she

forward and

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