Sword God in a World of Magic

For the next two years, Shang continued training as always.

He was dead set on comprehending Void Casting before his longevity would end, which was in about 280 years.

Shang was around 720 years old now, which was very old already for someone in the Fifth Realm.

Someone of such an age would normally be considered as someone whose Path had come to an end. They would only continue coasting along until their longevity ran out, never reaching the next Realm.

Sadly, spending so much time in each Realm was the only way for Shang to get a solid foundation.

If Shang's Path had already been planned out in the beginning, he could have done a couple of training exercises for his body while comprehending the Concepts of Addition and Subtraction.

Additionally, there would have probably also been better methods for warriors to comprehend Void Casting.

However, Shang was the strongest warrior.

There was no Path he could follow.

He had to create his own.

If there had been a Star Map for his Addum and Subsis, he might have also saved a century.

If he had a greater backer, Shang would have also received a far better area to comprehend the Concepts of Addition and Subtraction. As it stood, Shang had comprehended these Concepts by looking at beasts with somewhat fitting Affinities, but that obviously hadn't been the best method.

With a better area, Shang would have maybe saved another century.

In that case, Shang would only be a bit over 500 years old, giving him nearly 500 years to comprehend Void Casting.

That would be far easier.

Sadly, these were only ifs.

Shang could only hope that all these issues would vanish as soon as he joined the Lightning Manor.

Nevertheless, Shang never wasted even a second of his life, and he continued training with everything he had.

He let the Sweeper use several powerful Magic Circles that forced Mana into Shang's body over and over again.

Shang's body exploded again and again, but he didn't flinch.

This was just normal pain, and he had grown so used to it that the concept of pain had become distorted.

Whenever Shang felt excruciating pain, he wasn't even sure what he felt anymore.

uncomfortable? Yeah, but he couldn't really describe

it pain?

way, Shang couldn't feel pain anymore since what he felt whenever his body got injured had become so confusing and unimportant that he wasn't even sure what it was or if he was feeling it

had witnessed the own destruction of his body so many times

his organs shoot out of his body, he didn't feel any different than when he

like his body

like all these things that were happening to him were not actually happening

monotone, boring, unimportant, grey, and

training, the Sweeper had grown

a high pain tolerance was important for a powerful Mage, but whenever she saw Shang train, it

feel pain and fear when they

was good and

Shang even

more time she spent with Shang, the more abnormal

like he was some kind of being from outside this world or

Shang actually entered the Isolation Chamber, everything was flipped to the

otherworldly being that didn't have human desires and human pains, but during this last percent, when he

scared child. It was like a poor

that fate was his own

of Shang that the

Extreme apathy and detachment.

Intense fear and emotion.

There was no in-between.

deadline of two years came closer, the Sweeper

didn't want to

course, the Sweeper wasn't some teenage girl. She was over a

looked inside herself and actually asked herself if she had

she denied it. After all, she

such interest to develop, one needed to be able to empathize with the other

understand how the other person

that didn't

the time, it was like the Sweeper was looking at a ghost

that the contrast between Shang's two extremes had

the world had only seen that one version of Shang, but

His vulnerable side.

His scared side.

better than any other person in

conclusion that, yes,

However, what about it?