Sword God in a World of Magic

Time continued to pass.

The Bolts were no longer distracted by Shang since Lucin had created an Isolation Barrier around him, but Lucin himself had noticed that he was sighing far more often than usual.

He just felt bad for Shang.

It was one thing to go through so much pain to become stronger, but it was something else to continuously go through so much pain for decades upon decades.

This wasn't an individual instance of painful training anymore. Being under so much pain for so long had essentially transformed Shang's entire life.

Yes, Shang was already quite old, but spending decades in pain was still something significant.

Every decade of pain was equivalent to about one year of pain for a mortal.

How horrible would it be to be under such pain for one year?

Just one day was already terrifying.

As Lucin continued watching Shang, he got the thought that Shang was actually impressively sane for someone that was living like this.

Under normal circumstances, one would imagine a quivering mass of terror, paranoia, fear, and irrational hatred.

Sure, Shang had these aspects, but they weren't so strong that they overtook his entire personality.

Nevertheless, Lucin could still feel that Shang had huge issues deep inside.

His body was like a machine that was piloted by ten crazy people with different issues and illnesses, but by averaging them out, the machine was still piloted in a somewhat normal way.

Frankly, it was a miracle.

Decades passed.

Eventually, Shang used up all the Furnace Pills he had, which took him a total of 100 years.

At this moment, Shang was around 860 years old.

If he were a mortal, he would be nearly 80 years old.

Shang had genuinely reached the last years of his life.

Over the past century, a couple of Clouds had arrived in front of the Isolation Barrier.

wanted

at the Isolation Barrier, but Shang

had made it possible for Shang to see the outside, which meant that Shang could have noticed these

But he never did.

of the Clouds even became angry when Shang kept ignoring

their consent, and that extended to someone's belongings and

matter how angry they got,

them, but he had still taken note of a

Cloud that had arrived had tried to lure him away from Lucin so that they could kill

else would they be

wanted to kill Shang and get his resources or kill

them were his

of them

wanted to kill

truth, but that didn't

through decades upon decades of nothing but intense pain, Shang's perception was bound to

could one see the

going through this ungodly training for such a

been training like

10% of it, and go

person still be

was the longest time

had gone through a couple of decades of isolation, but he had still done a

had fought some beasts, walked from one place to the other,

He saw others from time to time, bought new resources, did some missions, talked

training, which meant that he regularly had to

it

was doing

There was no break.

no talking to

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

was just Shang and

better or for

had developed thoughts and feelings

Shang felt like he was approaching death, but not in the traditional

feel like he was about to

was like Shang's mind and personality had

happened, Shang felt like he was no longer