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

illusions Shang was conjuring wouldn't 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

had killed over 400 High Mages and over 5,000

castle had turned into

warm and welcoming, but it

illusion of life and warmth to a ruin filled with

that some people

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

these people would just directly talk with that person with their Spirit Sense,

time, the people would 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 who asked? Maybe they were searching for a

would believe something like

people felt that something was foul, and they decided to check on the others with their own

worst spot was the children's playroom. Shang had needed to intercept five people that wanted

to their rooms without looking at their children,

Something definitely wasn't right.

that things became difficult to hide, and he decided to go for the last

had already killed the majority of High

vision, the butler started to Mana Step towards the front gate and

stood there,

WHOOOOOOOOM!

purple. At the same time, the amounts of Mana

like the barrier was

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

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

far greater Spirit Sense and checked the

burning through the stored Mana Crystals while activating

Patriarch immediately checked on the huge Magic Circle creating the

barrier repelled

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

emergency mode would make it impossible for exactly that

soon as the Patriarch saw the barrier acting

did was to take out a light-blue

he gritted