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

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

three hours, Shang had killed over 400 High Mages and over

of the castle had turned into

was usually perceived to be warm and welcoming, but it could

life and warmth to a ruin filled with death

hours, Shang noticed that some people started to grow

had already intercepted a couple of people that had left their rooms to go to someone else's

people would just directly talk with that person with their Spirit Sense, but Shang's illusions couldn't

to do with the visit of the butler. Maybe the Patriarch of the

not everyone would believe

something was foul, and they

had needed to intercept five people that

course, as these people suddenly started turning around and going back to their rooms without looking at their children, other people that watched

Something definitely wasn't right.

to hide, and he decided to go for

the

Mana Step towards the front gate and

stood there, doing

WHOOOOOOOOM!

surrounding the property turned an intense purple. At the same time, the amounts of Mana

the barrier was

castle had just been holding a meeting, but the strange

Spirit Senses since it was

Archmage, extended his far greater Spirit

burning through the stored Mana Crystals while activating all of its

Circle creating the barrier, and willed it

the barrier repelled

This function existed to protect the castle no matter what. There were several Mages that could deactivate a barrier by using certain Spells

mode would make it impossible for exactly

as the Patriarch saw the barrier acting this way,

was to take out a

he gritted