Sword God in a World of Magic

What after that?

At that moment, Shang's thoughts began to turn more and more abstract.

He was trying to think of something, but all his thoughts somehow stopped making sense.

He was thinking of something, but he had no idea what he was thinking about.

It was just a weird and indiscernible mess.

Shang was just sitting there, not moving.

He was just thinking.

Wait, what was he thinking about?

He didn't remember.

'Can't be that important if I forgot,' Shang thought. 'Anyway, it's interesting to know what led me down to my current Path.'

'Killing the God, huh?'

'Sure, I can do that.'

'Then, I will get rid of the Abominations as long as it doesn't require me to sacrifice myself or something like that. And finally, I will find a way to become even more powerful.'

'I refuse to believe that becoming a God is the end.'

"You haven't answered my question yet," the Lightning Emperor suddenly said.

Shang was pulled out of his thoughts and returned to reality.

He had completely forgotten that he was sitting in front of the Lightning Emperor just now.

"What was the question?" Shang asked.

"Why do you want to become a God?" the Lightning Emperor asked.

Shang didn't immediately answer because he realized that he was now in a troublesome situation.

Earlier, he could have answered that question with no problems.

Because he wanted to become more powerful.

But now, Shang had remembered the original reason for wanting to become so powerful.

Emperor could tell the truth from lies, and he also knew that he most likely couldn't deceive

was he supposed to

reason why I once wanted to become a God, but that reason is no

the Lightning Emperor uttered with some interest. "Please,

important since that isn't my reason anymore," Shang said. "I want to become a God because I want to become

said was

Lightning Emperor said with a nod. "Nevertheless, I want to hear

want to tell

and a

deciding on what to do with you," he said. "You are free to refuse to answer, but in that case, I will assume the worst possible reason and base my judgment on that. In this case, I

you would have already killed

Emperor has been my personal friend for a very long time. We traveled together, trained

are my

you have essentially told me that you want to kill all

deserves a shot at becoming powerful and realizing their destiny, but is that still true when that person has directly told you that they are planning on

Silence.

free to answer me," the Lightning Emperor said, "or I can just directly eliminate you. You are not here because I want to find a reason to kill you. This is a chance for you to defend yourself and convince me not to kill

of it,"

Silence.

strong feeling of déjà

was like he

he remembered his last conversation with

was basically

there were still

Emperor

power to

know that Shang

for wanting to become

Silence.

to kill

several?" the Lightning Emperor

"Only one," Shang answered.

The Lightning Emperor.

kill one person wasn't

person?" the Lightning Emperor

him. I'm

an eyebrow as he looked at

was certain of

could this warrior be certain of whom

you so certain?" the

if he doesn't show

as he leaned forward a bit.