Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang just kept lying in the middle of the cave, breathing heavily.

He was so old.

He was so weak.

He was so tired.

Yet, there was nothing he could do but try to learn as much about his current situation as possible.

He had arrived at the end of his life, but there was still a way to extend it.

Shang hadn't achieved his goal yet, and he wouldn't stop trying to achieve it.

How many people knew the level three Concept of Death?

Extremely few.

The Concepts of Death were just as rare as the Concepts of Life, and the only two people Shang knew that had comprehended any of these Concepts were Queen Primordium and the Custodian.

The Custodian had comprehended two Concepts of Life.

But that was it.

Shang knew two Concepts of Death, which basically already put him on the level of one of the most powerful Mage Kings in the world.

Comprehending the level three Concept of Death would be even more difficult.

Yet, Shang wouldn't give up.

He never gave up.

Ever since he had started on his path to power, he hadn't given up.

This was his entire thing.

This was his entire personality.

Single-minded obsession with only one thing.

Undying and ceaseless effort towards one thing.

Shang had sacrificed so much just to achieve his goal.

But if he failed now, all of this would have been for nothing.

All these sacrifices would only have meant something if Shang actually managed to reach his goal.

Shang was not someone that was happy with what he had.

To Shang, there was no grey, only black and white.

Either he achieved his goal or not.

To him, dying as a powerful Cloud was worth just as much as dying to a Pest Cat when he had just arrived in this world.

For the first time in a long while, Shang actually thought back to his life on Earth.

so

MMA fighter?

Phones?

Grocery stores?

What a weird world.

people came up with in a world without

on getting enough money to enter

remembered how he had basically been a drunkard a year

had a girlfriend, whom he had essentially chased off by constantly coming

He had parents.

Parents…

strange and alien

Family…

wandered to the time he

been so

couldn't even take

how he

The unknown forest.

coming into contact with

The following training.

had been so much

only needed to train

swings with his sword

his weak Spirit Sense focused on the Subsis lying

said weakly in a scratchy

Sword didn't answer.

times he had

talked and trained

was so much

of the first time he had truly used Entropy in the

Commander Wilbury.

Sword had shouted at him, saying that it

mirror, huh?"

Sword didn't say anything.

were always a mirror. You always showed me what I didn't see on

Sword didn't say anything.

know why I'm talking to you," Shang

Sword didn't say anything.

level three Concept of Gravity, Compression, the level two Concept of Space, Distance, the

Sword didn't say anything.

can create a complex Magic Circle that shows whatever would help the user

I wanted a

that had just as

and we both worked

what I wanted," Shang

Sword didn't say anything.

was the last input his spear had

program, it did its absolute best

that's because it

you," Shang

Sword didn't say anything.

am talking to you right now. Maybe it's just a last bit of solace I