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.

but he couldn't really

it pain? He

body got injured had become so confusing and unimportant that he wasn't even

he had witnessed the own destruction of his body so

and his organs shoot out of his body, he didn't feel any different than when he saw a stone on a road break

like his

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

boring, unimportant, grey, and

years of helping Shang with his training, the

was important for a powerful Mage, but whenever she saw Shang train, it was like she

and beasts were supposed to feel pain and fear

tolerance was good and all, but this

even

with Shang, the more abnormal

was some kind of being from

when Shang actually entered the Isolation Chamber, everything

otherworldly being that didn't have human desires and human pains,

and scared child. It was

was

were the two extremes of Shang that the

Extreme apathy and detachment.

Intense fear and emotion.

There was no in-between.

of two years came

she didn't want

She was over a thousand years old,

and actually asked herself if she had taken

it. After all, she couldn't empathize with Shang

interest to develop, one needed to be able to empathize

how the other person

didn't exist

time, it was like the Sweeper was looking at a

realized that the contrast between

but she was the only one that had seen the other version of

His vulnerable side.

His scared side.

knew Shang better than any other person

the conclusion that, yes, she had taken an interest

However, what about it?