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.

could just

were

Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly

Shang needed access to Abominations, and no one was allowed

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

Like, really expensive.

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

It was Lucin.

Shang that he was too

criticizing Shang for

gain enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one needed to interact with

was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and on top of that,

exactly that was the

single Cloud had a boundless ambition

remained completely

he in need of

amongst the

had come into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation

was something strange going

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

to go out into the Hibye and earn some resources just for

request coincided with

the end,

also asked Lucin how expensive the thing he

Lucin heard Shang's request, he couldn't

was the absolute

expense for something that

throwing his

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

as it was his

Lightning Manor gave him access to it. After

twice, Shang did something he hadn't

went "crying" to

he needed that for