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.

of Blood. After all, Shang could just summon some Abominations

things were

several Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly vanishing when Shang touched it would very

to Abominations, and no one was allowed

had already thought of a solution to

Like, really expensive.

would have

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he was

criticizing Shang

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

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 that, he had Queen Primordium

exactly that was

Cloud had a boundless

Shang remained completely isolated for

he in need of

already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they

he had come into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't come out to earn any

something strange going

Because of that, they couldn't let it show that he was getting

into the

with Shang needing more

end, Shang

asked Lucin how expensive the thing he

Shang's request, he couldn't say anything

absolute

for something that would barely accomplish

was throwing his money out of the

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

told Lucin that as long as it

that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to it. After all, he wasn't

Shang did something

went "crying"

Queen Primordium that he needed