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.

After all, Shang could just

were

an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly vanishing when Shang touched it would very

and no one was allowed to see his

to that problem, but the solution was very

Like, really expensive.

Shang had already thought of a way, and as fate would have

It was Lucin.

that he was

criticizing Shang for his

enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one

ask for something ridiculously expensive, he wouldn't need to earn anything. After all, he was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and on top of

exactly that was the

a

Shang remained completely isolated

he in need

conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid very

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

something

Because of that, they couldn't

go out into the Hibye

with Shang needing more money

the end,

expensive

heard Shang's request, he

absolute

ridiculous expense for something that would

throwing

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

as it was his money,

money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to it. After all,

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

went "crying"

Primordium that he