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.

Shang was willing to walk through

had walked

he had just stopped searching for power, he

But he couldn't.

needed to achieve

only purpose of

had more

but ever since Shang had stepped onto this dark path,

end

The consequences didn't matter.

The sacrifices didn't matter.

The price didn't matter.

to reach

needed to

believed that he had already

believed that he had already

realized the true weight of his

journey, Jerald had

A ray of light.

in a place of

wasn't actually that hard to walk the

looked at the hand lying in front of

Space Ring on it, and Shang had avoided

Relon had given Jerald, Relon would know

Shang's empty eye-sockets

He didn't move.

across

mercilessly shone down on

was

Shang only saw

in front of

Step.

walked out of the still-standing part of the castle behind Shang, and her eyes widened in horror at

of the

What about King Storm?!

responsible for organizing everything in the castle, and she had

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

the world around her

power of the world around her gathered

could say or do anything, her head separated from her

Shang didn't move.

empty eye-sockets only stared

shortly, but they died as soon as they

reason he was moving was that he was seeing someone approach in his

Sylvia was returning.

expression on her face as she activated one Mana

forward and scooped