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

announcing themselves and knocking at the Isolation Barrier,

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

But he never did.

the Clouds even became angry when

it was forbidden to attack someone without their consent, and that

matter how angry they got, they didn't attack the Isolation

not seen all of them, but he had still

had tried to lure him away from

would they be

just wanted to kill Shang and get his resources or kill him

them were

of them

them wanted

the truth, but

through decades upon decades of nothing

how could one

through this ungodly training for such a long time, Shang was bound to

put this into perspective, Shang had been training like this for over

10% of it, and go through so much time

person still

time Shang had been this

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

walked from one place to the other, talked

training room from time to time. He saw others from time to time, bought new resources, did some missions, talked to the Keeper, and

Bastion, Shang had to run a town while training, which meant that he regularly had to communicate with others and deal with the management of

it was

doing nothing

There was no break.

was no

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

Shang and

better or

and feelings

Shang felt like he was approaching death, but not in

he was about to die,

was like Shang's mind and personality had

like he