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.

Blood. After all, Shang could

things were different

be noticed by several Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might

Shang needed access to Abominations, and no one was allowed

a solution to that

Like, really expensive.

a way, and as fate would have it, something else was pushing him

It was Lucin.

Shang that

wasn't criticizing Shang for

resources to become more powerful in the

need to earn anything. After all, he was getting ten times as many resources as anyone

exactly that

Cloud had a boundless ambition to become

remained completely isolated

he in need of

conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid very

had come into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and

something

reasons. Because of that,

to go out into the Hibye and earn

request coincided with Shang needing more money

end,

he also asked Lucin how expensive

he couldn't say anything

the absolute height

was a ridiculous expense for something

was like Shang was throwing his money out of the

Lucin's job to explicitly stop something like this from happening, and he told Shang that

long as it was his money, it

that Shang didn't earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor

his request declined twice, Shang did something he hadn't done

went "crying" to his

he needed that for