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?

…

kept

then, he slowly turned his head to the

obelisk that had once been Shang's body had

attention to the hill

Flesh.

Blood.

Organs.

the past century, and the pieces of flesh and

actually standing on the ground but on parts

it was filled with

hadn't noticed it before, but right now, he could feel something very profound in

but blood, suffering, and pain for a century in complete

of the light, fresh air, or life could enter

Everything was isolated.

like this was a

like it was a small

nothing bright,

And the air…

It was… strange…

the

But what was this?

force in the

hand and

he willed some Mana in the surroundings to

an instant, something

to

Shang lost control over his hand,

it, but it

tried to heal it, but

His hand had died.

for some reason, Shang wasn't nervous or scared, and he just looked at his dead

was,

It felt mysterious.

had never experienced anything

but it

It was different.

seconds later, Shang's hand turned

decompose easily. After all, all of Shang's body parts

was starting to

kept looking

began to vanish as the natural decomposition reduced it

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

he absorbed more, he

Mana

Shang got

this

everything in here had been filled with this kind

course, the ways in which Shang had absorbed Mana previously were very different from what he had done to his

it to his own Mana. In essence, Shang was using a simplified and

natural process of absorbing Mana included the incorporation of Shang's will on the Mana as the first

and mind didn't decompose like his

still absorbed who knew how much of this Mana. Sure, he had put his will

was confronted with something this mysterious, for some reason,

like he just