Sword God in a World of Magic

The current situation was very strange to Shang.

For over two centuries, he had kept only to himself, not daring to tell anyone about anything related to his powers.

He couldn't let anyone find out that he was the Child of Calamity.

Because of that, he had to keep secret that he had four Affinities.

Because of that, he had to keep secret that he had four States.

Additionally, Shang also had an entirely separate issue that also forced him to keep secrets.

Shang was being pursued by the Lightning Manor. They knew that they were essentially searching for the strongest warrior in the world, and if anyone found a really powerful Fifth Realm warrior, they would be easily able to connect the two people.

Because of that, Shang even had to keep his identity as a warrior a secret.

He even had to keep his name a secret.

Hell, the Lightning Manor probably even knew that Shang was missing an eye he couldn't regrow, which meant that Shang even had to keep his appearance a secret.

Shang had even killed innocent people just because they might have potentially found out some little clue about some irrelevant secret of his.

Secrets upon secrets upon secrets.

And now, he was suddenly supposed to be honest?

Right now, it was like Shang was standing in front of a dark abyss.

He had to walk forward into the darkness, into a place he had never been before.

This reminded Shang of the time he stood at the edge of Area 23.

He also hadn't known what would await him.

Back then, Shang had also been forced to enter a place he had never been to before. He didn't even know what it looked like.

Shang had taken the plunge back then.

After many minutes or even hours of falling, Shang had eventually broken past the last layer of clouds.

Water.

only seen

he had jumped

huge plateau, about 2,000 kilometers

the middle of a humongous

That was Area 23.

jump, Shang's world had become

he had viewed as the world had transformed into

Shang had traveled toward the

couple of other plateaus with his Spirit Sense, but he hadn't

reached the shore and found several High Mages and True Mages walking through

had left Area 23 and entered the real

Shang felt very similar to back

390 years.

if one added his distant life on Earth, Shang

the last 240 of these 390 years, Shang had lived in absolute

Secrecy was a defense.

Shang's secrets, no one would be

powers, no one would feel safe enough to

goal,

no one would even interact with

Secrecy was survival.

forced to

was forced to tell others about his

have never

a choice, he would never

that had decided to tell Jerald about his background had also been

up with the idea to tell anyone about the fact that

Shang suddenly started claiming that the real God was some crazy lunatic,

It was insane.

was an

hated taking unnecessary

he

took a

no more reason to hesitate. Hesitating would only slightly delay the inevitable, and it might even

"Yes," Shang said.