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

fool someone's Spirit Sense, and with everyone only talking with

over 400 High Mages and over 5,000 people

of the castle had turned into a land filled with deathly cold

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

warmth to a ruin filled with death

three hours, Shang noticed that some

intercepted a couple of people that had

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

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

would believe

felt that something was foul, and they decided

had needed to intercept five people that

back to their rooms without looking at their children, other people that watched all of this grew even more

Something definitely wasn't right.

hide, and he decided to go for the

the majority

the butler started to Mana Step towards the front gate and

stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

the same time, the amounts of Mana it was giving off also shot into the

was like the barrier

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

High Mages couldn't perceive the barrier with their Spirit Senses since it was too far away, but they could still see the bright violet light coming

Patriarch, an Early Archmage, extended his far greater Spirit Sense and checked the

that it was rapidly burning through the stored Mana Crystals

checked on the huge Magic Circle creating the barrier, and willed it

barrier repelled

protect the castle no matter what. There were several Mages that could deactivate a

mode would make it impossible

the Patriarch saw the barrier acting this way, he knew

he did was to take out

then, he gritted his