Sword God in a World of Magic

For a while, Shang just kept experimenting with Death Mana, but at some point, he just kept lying on the ground as a half-dead husk.

Lucin became a bit concerned, but he could feel that Shang was still alive.

For several years, Shang just lay on the ground, half-dead.

Lucin felt more and more awkward and strange.

Eventually, he asked Shang if everything was okay, and Shang just answered that everything was fine.

Yet, Shang just kept lying there, doing nothing.

Naturally, Shang wasn't actually doing nothing.

In truth, Shang was fighting against beasts and Mages inside his inner world, and he kept his real body half-dead so that he could experiment with more Death Mana inside his inner world.

His real body had essentially transformed into a Death Mana generator.

Shang usually only needed a few years to create new techniques, but the potential and complexity of Death Mana made it quite difficult to create good techniques.

However, that just meant that Shang needed to spend more time.

After 30 years, Shang had completely solidified his new fighting style with his new techniques.

For the last 300 years, Shang had been busy comprehending Void Break, which meant that he hadn't truly had any time to refine his fighting style.

But now, with nearly 4,000 years of longevity left, Shang finally had enough time.

When Shang was around 1,050 years old, his real body recovered, and he stood up.

There was something he had to do.

In fact, there were two reasons why he wanted to do this something.

First, now that Shang was in a new Realm, he needed to advance again, and in order to advance properly within that Realm, he needed Abominations.

of Blood. After all, Shang could just summon some

things were different

an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly

and no one was allowed to see his interaction with

had already thought of a solution to that problem, but the solution

Like, really expensive.

Shang had already thought of a way, and as fate would have it, something else was pushing him toward that

It was Lucin.

that he was

criticizing Shang for

if one actually wanted to gain enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one needed to interact with the Hibye and earn

anything. After all, he was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and

that

a boundless ambition to

completely isolated for

he in need

was already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid

come into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't

was something strange going

for multiple reasons. Because of that, they

go out into the

request coincided with Shang needing

end, Shang

also asked Lucin how expensive the

Shang's request, he couldn't say anything for

the absolute

for something that would

Shang was throwing his money out of

like this from happening, and he told Shang that he wouldn't approve of something

told Lucin that as long as it was his money, it wouldn't

the Lightning Manor gave him access

twice, Shang did

went "crying" to his

that he needed