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.

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

things were

Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not

one

of a solution to that problem, but the

Like, really expensive.

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

It was Lucin.

told Shang that

wasn't criticizing Shang for his

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

anything. After all, he was

that was

a

completely isolated

he in

very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid very close attention

portals, got hidden by Isolation

something

of that, they couldn't let

into the Hibye and earn some resources

coincided with

end,

expensive the thing

Shang's request, he

the absolute

a ridiculous expense for

was like Shang was throwing

to explicitly stop something like this from happening, and he told Shang that he wouldn't approve

as it was his money, it wouldn't

by saying that Shang didn't earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to it. After all, he wasn't contributing to the Lightning Manor right

request declined twice, Shang did

went "crying" to his

he