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

someone's eyes, but they could fool someone's Spirit Sense, and with everyone only talking with their Spirit Senses, this was a terrifying

Shang had killed over 400 High Mages and

of the castle had turned into a land

welcoming,

an illusion of life and warmth to a ruin filled with

that

couple of people that had left their

directly talk with that person with their Spirit

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

would believe something

foul, and they decided to check on the others with their own

the children's playroom. Shang had needed to intercept

as these people 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.

to hide, and he

already killed the majority

everyone's vision, the butler started to Mana Step towards the front gate and waited

stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

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

the

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 away,

far greater Spirit Sense and

that it was rapidly burning through the stored Mana Crystals while activating all

huge Magic Circle creating

barrier repelled

barrier was to 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 Spells to weave through the barrier and

would make it impossible for exactly that to

acting this way,

did was to

he