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.

all wanted to

and knocking at the Isolation

the outside, which meant that Shang could have noticed these Clouds and

But he never did.

the Clouds even became angry

to attack someone without their consent,

angry they got, they didn't attack the Isolation

but he

mind, every Cloud that had arrived had tried to lure him away from Lucin

would they be

wanted to kill Shang and get his resources

of them

of them were his

of them wanted to kill

that wasn't the truth, but that didn't

heightened state of danger and by going through decades upon decades of nothing but intense pain, Shang's perception was bound to become

experienced nothing but pain and darkness, how could one see the world as anything but

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

to put this into perspective, Shang had been training like this for over 10%

of

person still be the

time Shang had

through a couple of decades of isolation, but

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

of Blood, Shang had left his training room from time to time. He saw others from time to time, bought new resources, did some missions, talked to

which meant that he regularly had to communicate with others and deal with the

it was

doing nothing

There was no break.

was no talking

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

just Shang

better or for

the past century, Shang had developed thoughts and feelings he had never been able to imagine

was approaching

he was about to die,

personality had

he was no longer inside his