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

knocking at the Isolation Barrier, but

made it possible for Shang to see the outside, which meant

But he never did.

became angry when Shang kept

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

got, they didn't attack

of them, but he had still taken note of a couple

arrived had tried to lure him away from Lucin so that

would they

Shang and get his resources or

of them

them

of them wanted to kill

wasn't the truth, but that

state of danger and by going through decades upon decades of nothing but

and darkness, how could one see the

going through this ungodly training for such a long time,

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

one's own life, take 10% of

still

longest time Shang had been this

of isolation, but he had still

place to the

Named Agent in the Temple 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 the Keeper, and left

which meant that he regularly had to communicate with others

time, it

was doing nothing

There was no break.

no talking to

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

was just Shang and

or for

had developed thoughts and feelings he had

times, Shang felt like he was approaching death,

to die, but like he

mind and personality had been close to

like he