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

had walked into this

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

But he couldn't.

needed to achieve

the only purpose

more purposes

since Shang had stepped onto this dark path, all the

end of the path, no matter

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

to

to

had always believed that he had already made

already come to terms with his

realized the true weight of his path

and lonely journey, Jerald had

A ray of light.

in a place of

wasn't actually that hard to

hand lying in front of his

on it, and Shang had avoided it

had given Jerald,

eye-sockets only

He didn't move.

blew across the

sun mercilessly shone

world was

only

of the

Step.

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

the

What about King Storm?!

one of the True Mages responsible for organizing everything

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

world around her

power of the world around her gathered beside

say or do anything, her head separated from her

Shang didn't move.

empty eye-sockets only

arrived shortly, but they died

he was moving

Sylvia was returning.

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

forward and scooped

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