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.

been an issue in the Temple of Blood. After all, Shang could just summon some Abominations while he was walking to and

were

appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly

one was allowed

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

Like, really expensive.

as fate would have it, something else was

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he

wasn't criticizing Shang

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

long as Shang didn't ask for something ridiculously expensive, he wouldn't need to earn anything. After all, he was getting ten

exactly that

had a boundless

completely isolated for

in need

already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which

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

was something strange going

for multiple reasons. Because of that, they couldn't let it show that he was getting

told Shang to go out into the Hibye and earn some

Lucin's request coincided with Shang

the end,

expensive the thing he wanted

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

was the absolute

ridiculous expense for

throwing his

stop something like this from happening, and

Lucin that as long as it was his money, it

Manor gave him

Shang did something

went "crying" to

Queen Primordium that he needed that for