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 trick

but they could fool someone's Spirit Sense, and with

over 400 High

castle had turned into a land filled

to be warm and welcoming, but it

and warmth to a ruin filled with death and

Shang noticed that some

had already intercepted a couple of people that had left

person with their Spirit

Maybe the Patriarch of the family gave them orders to remain quiet no matter who asked?

everyone would believe something like

and they decided to check on the others with their

was the children's playroom. Shang had needed

their rooms without looking at their children, other

Something definitely wasn't right.

difficult to hide, and he

killed the majority

Mana Step towards

he just stood there,

WHOOOOOOOOM!

the property turned an intense purple. At the same time, the amounts of

was like the

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

Peak High Mages couldn't perceive the barrier with their Spirit Senses since it

an Early Archmage, extended his far greater Spirit

burning through the stored Mana Crystals while activating all of its

immediately checked on the huge Magic Circle creating the barrier, and

the barrier

stop anyone from messing with it while emergency mode was active. This function existed to protect the castle no matter what. There were several Mages that could deactivate a barrier by using certain

it impossible for exactly

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

to take out a light-blue

he gritted