Sword God in a World of Magic

Time passed.

Shang just kept breathing heavily as he became weaker and weaker.

A lot of his grit and willpower had already vanished, and he felt like dying wouldn't be such a bad idea anymore.

However, Shang also recognized that this was the effect of Death Mana entering his mind.

There was no Death Mana around Shang, but Shang's mind was still slowly being filled with Death Mana.

That was just natural.

This was how Death Mana worked.

At some point, the body and mind would start to produce Death Mana at a slow rate, and the Death Mana would slowly overtake the body.

First came the sickness. Old people would become ill many more times than younger people.

Then came weakness. The increased density of Death Mana would weaken the body and the mind. The body wouldn't be able to summon as much power as before, and the mind wouldn't be able to focus as much.

In this state, summoning one point of willpower was as difficult as summoning ten points of willpower when one was younger.

The lack of willpower and motivation would tire someone out, and they would just want to sleep and relax.

This was death.

The end of life.

Shang was so tired.

He just didn't want to continue anymore.

He had fought for so long.

He had suffered for so long.

So what if he didn't achieve his goal?

Right now, he just wanted to sleep and forget about all of this.

Nothing mattered since everyone would someday die anyway.

What's the point of being the strongest if he would just die in a million years or whatever anyway?

Every person was just a transient visitor to life. Someone poor and weak without a family might completely vanish from the world within 20 years.

A normal mortal might die within 80. Their grandchildren would still remember them, but would the children of the grandchildren remember the mortal?

What about those children?

And the children of those?

At some point, the mortal would be completely forgotten.

No one would remember them.

No one would remember what they had done.

What was the difference between them existing and not existing?

The existence of the children?

That lineage would eventually come to an end as well, and then what?

And what about a powerful Mage?

Wasn't it just the same but on a bigger scale?

Many of the Mage Emperors had been friends with the Mage God, which meant that they all were less than 500,000 years old.

Sure, that was a lot of time, but had the world existed for only those 500,000 years?

Earth alone had existed for over four billion

long had

had happened

been extremely powerful geniuses that could rival

Ten million years ago?

A hundred?

one that reached

this person why every Emperor that lived today was

Yet, nobody remembered.

Nobody knew.

influential person in

And that was it.

person would one day be forgotten by

Supreme power?

would come for you

Your power didn't matter.

Your age didn't matter.

Your prestige didn't matter.

Your actions didn't matter.

Everything was pointless.

So, why try?

Why not just sleep?

the point of chasing a

felt more and

Everything seemed so pointless.

tiresome and so

forget him after a couple more years, and even if

between dying now and dying

up

became weaker

world around him became

even extend

meant that less Mana was entering

skin started to dry out and took

muscles hurt since they were nearly being torn apart by the natural action of just lying there. Like liquid, they just

would

was the reason why so many people didn't stubbornly

willingly go to eternal

longer care and just go to eternal sleep to escape

of his destiny and

killed by others or refuse

no longer

being able

able to sense one's

to put in so much

was the point of

body grew

slowly

The wilderness.

The Hegemon.

Jerald.

Warrior's Paradise.

George.

Mervin.

The Skythunder Kingdom.

The Grandmountain Kingdom.

The war.

The Council.

The isolated training.

Jerald's death.

the Twilight Dusk Family's

The Temple of Blood.

Icy Bastion.

Lucin.