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.

how to

fool someone's Spirit Sense, and

had killed over 400 High Mages and over 5,000

90% of the castle had turned into a land filled with deathly

be warm and welcoming,

an illusion of life and warmth to a ruin filled with death

Shang noticed that some people started to

a couple of people that had left their rooms to go to someone

talk with that person with their Spirit

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

would

and they decided to check on the others with their

playroom. Shang had needed to intercept five people that wanted

to their rooms without looking at their children, other people that watched

Something definitely wasn't right.

noticed that things became difficult to hide, and

already killed the majority

the butler started to Mana Step

just stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

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

was like the barrier

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

the barrier with their Spirit Senses since it was too

an Early Archmage, extended his far greater Spirit Sense and

rapidly burning through the stored Mana Crystals while activating all of its functions

immediately checked on the huge Magic Circle creating the

the barrier repelled

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

make it impossible for

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

did was to take out a light-blue Communication

he