Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at his body and realized that there was still a bit to go.

However, this time, it no longer seemed impossible to comprehend Void Casting.

Shang was already 80% done.

Only about 40 more years.

Only two or three more sessions in the Isolation Chamber.

Then, he would finally comprehend Void Casting.

Yet, Shang only absentmindedly focused on nothing.

He was just standing in the Isolation Barrier, doing nothing.

He wasn't training.

He wasn't thinking.

He was just there.

That was it.

He just didn't care anymore.

Training was so exhausting.

Moving was so exhausting.

Thinking was so exhausting.

Everything was so exhausting.

He just didn't want to anymore.

His past was suffering.

His present was suffering.

His future was suffering.

Why suffering?

Why did it always have to be suffering?

Why did the world put him through so much suffering?

In Shang's mind, there was no way out of this suffering.

It couldn't be stopped.

As long as he lived, he would continue to suffer.

What was the point?

…

just kept

slowly turned

obelisk that had once been Shang's body had

drew Shang's attention to the

Flesh.

Blood.

Organs.

past century, and the pieces of flesh and organs were starting to stack

standing on the ground but on parts of his old

air stunk indescribably, and it was filled with

he could feel

that had experienced nothing but blood, suffering, and pain for a century

air, or life could

Everything was isolated.

this was a

like it was a

was nothing bright,

And the air…

It was… strange…

could feel that the

But what was this?

force

right hand and

willed some Mana in the surroundings to enter his

an instant, something happened to Shang's

to turn

then, Shang lost control over his hand, and it just hung from his

tried to move it, but it was

tried to heal it, but that

His hand had died.

wasn't nervous or scared,

what it was, but it felt profound and

It felt mysterious.

had never experienced

wasn't like Darkness, but it also wasn't

It was different.

hand turned

didn't decompose easily. After all, all of Shang's

was starting

kept looking

next seconds, Shang's hand began to vanish as

focused on his surroundings as the decomposition slowly crept up his arm,

he absorbed more,

surrounding Mana was

Shang got

this

filled with this kind of Mana, what effects did it have

Shang had absorbed Mana previously were very different from what he

Mana in the surroundings without converting it to his own Mana. In essence, Shang was using a simplified

the incorporation of Shang's will

that, Shang's body and mind didn't decompose like his

much of this Mana. Sure, he had put his will on it,

Shang was confronted with something this mysterious, for some reason,

like he just