Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang and the image of the butler continued walking through the hallways one at a time.

For the next three hours, nothing special seemed to happen on the outside, but in reality, a huge portion of the castle had completely died.

Everything still seemed to be filled with life, but the life was only the cold manipulation of dead light.

But the scary part was that this illusion of light only affected someone's Spirit Sense. In fact, the light looked chaotic if one looked at it with their eyes.

Yet, every High Mage and higher only relied on their Spirit Sense.

Looking at the world with a Spirit Sense was just superior to looking at the world with eyes.

But Shang knew the truth.

Ever since he lost his sight, he knew that eyes were not an inferior method of perceiving the world but a different one.

Eyes could see light, while ears couldn't.

However, ears could perceive things from behind the person using them.

One of the two might be better most of the time, but that didn't mean that it was always better.

The same thing was true for eyes and Spirit Sense.

A Spirit Sense was superior in over 99% of cases.

But the remaining 1% of cases could still kill someone if they didn't use their eyes for that.

Shang learned that the hard way when he had been bitten by something while traveling towards the north after leaving Area 23.

He hadn't been able to sense the thing that had bitten him with his Spirit Sense, no matter how hard he tried.

Luckily, he had been able to hear it, but it was still a terrifying experience to be attacked by something one couldn't properly locate or sense.

In the many decades since leaving Area 23, Shang had learned a lot about how Spirit Senses worked.

also how to

wouldn't be able to fool someone's eyes, but they could fool someone's Spirit Sense, and with everyone only talking with their Spirit Senses,

Shang had killed over 400 High

turned into a land filled with

usually perceived to be warm and welcoming, but it could also

and warmth to a ruin filled with

that some people

a couple of people that had left their rooms to go to

with that person with their Spirit Sense, but Shang's illusions couldn't

butler. Maybe the

not everyone would believe something

that something was foul, and they decided to check on the others with

spot was the children's playroom. Shang had needed to intercept five people that wanted to

their rooms without looking

Something definitely wasn't right.

became difficult to hide, and

the majority

butler started to Mana Step towards the front

he just stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

gigantic barrier surrounding the property turned an intense purple. At the same time, the amounts

the barrier was

had just been holding a meeting, but the strange actions of the barrier immediately drew

Mages couldn't perceive the barrier with their Spirit Senses since it was too

Early Archmage, extended his far greater

the stored Mana

checked on the huge Magic Circle creating the

the barrier repelled his

protect the castle no matter what. There were several Mages that could deactivate a barrier by using certain Spells to weave through the barrier

mode would make it impossible for

as the Patriarch saw the barrier acting this way, he knew they were under

thing he did was to take out a

then, he gritted his