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

Shang had walked into

stopped searching for power, he wouldn't need

But he couldn't.

to achieve

only purpose

he had more

but ever since Shang had stepped onto this dark path,

had to reach the end

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

to

to

believed that he had

already come to terms

weight of his path only

lonely journey, Jerald had been like a

A ray of light.

nice in a place of

wasn't actually that hard to walk

at the hand lying in

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

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

empty eye-sockets only stared at the

He didn't move.

across the now

mercilessly shone

was so

only

of the

Step.

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

the castle

What about King Storm?!

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

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

the world around

power of the world around

anything, her head separated from

Shang didn't move.

eye-sockets

Mages arrived shortly, but they died as soon as

the only reason he was moving was that

Sylvia was returning.

horrified expression on her face

stepped forward and scooped up the

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