Sword God in a World of Magic

When confronted by death, many people would think about their life and reevaluate past decisions.

What were their regrets?

What would they have changed?

Maybe they shouldn't have been so strict with their children?

Maybe they shouldn't have broken up with their first love?

If they hadn't taken out that loan from those dangerous people, their children would have something to inherit today?

Naturally, Shang wasn't any different.

Should he have been more amongst people?

Should he have accepted the Sweeper's confession?

Should he have spared Jerald?

Shang thought about all of these things.

And he acknowledged something.

He would be happier if he had someone with him.

It would feel nice not to be alone right now.

Everything was so painful, exhausting, dark, and lonely.

Shang knew that he would feel better if he hadn't been so brutal and inflexible in his past.

However, did this mean that Shang would have changed his past actions if he could?

No.

If he hadn't killed Lash, the Grandmountain Kingdom might have killed him.

If he hadn't killed Jerald, he would have eventually caved in and told someone.

If he hadn't declined the Sweeper's advances, Shang wouldn't have had enough time to comprehend his form of Void Casting or the Concept of Twilight.

Yes, he felt lonely, and he wished that someone was at his side.

However, Shang knew that this luxury would come with a price he wouldn't want to pay.

And then came another thought.

So what?

Since everyone would die, it didn't matter what one accomplished in their life.

Might as well die happy and surrounded by loved ones, right?

However, that was only true when death was a certainty.

At this moment, Shang kept putting in effort.

Shang still had hope.

there were

horrible by

tell him to give

Shang do

Probably.

barely hanging on as it was. Any person that told

his side

his likely death into

that this was

was

right to

Shang was glad that there was

He didn't want them.

He didn't need them!

would

what if he

he would

kept focusing on his body, and

But he kept breathing.

He kept fighting.

One more year passed.

And another year passed.

at the Fifth

wouldn't

He would never stop!

to take him, it needed to

More years passed.

became 1010

moved a single muscle in the

already split at multiple locations, and the Death Mana in his body had started to leak

corpse that

He couldn't do anything.

couldn't even

But he wasn't dead.

was agony,

Was this living?

to most

be considered

Shang, this was still

as his consciousness still existed, he would be

he could think, he

interact

entire perception was confined in his

counting himself as alive, but in truth, he wasn't doing more than a stone lying at the side of

Was it life?

No.

Was it death?

No.

was something between these

neither

It was limbo.

Or Purgatory.

This was Purgatory.

was what Shang had been searching

years in this state, Shang

feelings could only be understood by people that went through the same