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

fool someone's Spirit Sense, and with everyone

had killed over

into

warm and welcoming,

brought an illusion of life and warmth

after three hours, Shang noticed that

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

talk with that person with their Spirit Sense, but

something to do with the visit of the butler. Maybe the Patriarch of the family gave them orders to remain quiet no matter who asked? Maybe they were searching

would

of these people felt that something was foul, and they decided to

Shang had needed to intercept five people that

suddenly started turning around and going back to their rooms without looking at their children, other people that watched all of

Something definitely wasn't right.

became difficult to hide, and he

the majority of

Mana Step towards the front gate and

just stood there,

WHOOOOOOOOM!

the property turned an intense purple. At the same time, the amounts of Mana it was giving off also shot into

like the barrier was entering

meeting, but the strange actions of the barrier immediately drew their

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

extended his far greater Spirit Sense and checked the

through the stored Mana Crystals while activating all of its

Circle creating the barrier, and willed

the barrier

castle no matter what.

emergency mode would make it impossible

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

he did was to take out a

he gritted