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 Spirit Sense, and with everyone only talking with their Spirit Senses,

over 400 High Mages and over

90% of the castle had turned into a

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

life and warmth to a ruin filled with death and

Shang noticed that some

couple of people that had left their rooms to go

person with their Spirit Sense,

think that this had something to do with the visit of the butler. Maybe the Patriarch of the family gave them orders to remain quiet no matter

not everyone would believe

felt that something was foul, and they decided

the children's playroom. Shang had needed to intercept five

as these people suddenly started turning around and going back to their rooms without

Something definitely wasn't right.

noticed that things became difficult to hide, and he

killed the majority of

everyone's vision, the butler started to Mana Step towards the

stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

gigantic barrier surrounding the property turned an intense purple. At the same time, the amounts of Mana it was giving off also

was like the barrier was

the castle had just been holding a meeting, but the

their Spirit Senses since it was too far away, but they could still see the

Early Archmage, extended his far greater Spirit Sense and

burning through the stored Mana

Patriarch immediately checked on the huge Magic Circle creating

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

mode would make it impossible for exactly

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

first thing he did was to take out

then, he gritted