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.

it uncomfortable? Yeah, but he couldn't

it pain? He didn't

so confusing and unimportant that he wasn't even sure what it

his body so many times that he had

didn't feel any different than when he saw a stone on

his body

things that were happening to him were not actually happening

monotone, boring,

of helping Shang with his training, the

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

to feel pain and

high pain tolerance was good and all,

even a human

she spent with Shang, the more abnormal and unnatural he

he was some kind of being from outside this world

the Isolation Chamber, everything was flipped to the

didn't have human desires and human pains, but during this last percent, when he went into the Isolation Chamber, it was the

horrified and scared child. It was

was his own

were the two extremes of Shang that the

Extreme apathy and detachment.

Intense fear and emotion.

There was no in-between.

came

she didn't want

wasn't some teenage girl. She was over a thousand years old, and she had plenty

herself if she had

she couldn't empathize with

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

how the

didn't exist

Sweeper was looking

realized that the contrast between Shang's two extremes had an intense pull

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

His vulnerable side.

His scared side.

Shang better than any

came to the conclusion that, yes, she had taken an interest in

However, what about it?