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 summon some Abominations

were different

of an Abomination might not be too

to Abominations, and no one was allowed

of a solution to that problem, but the solution was

Like, really expensive.

and as fate would

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he was too

wasn't criticizing Shang

actually wanted to gain enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one

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

exactly that

single Cloud had a

Shang remained completely isolated

in need of

the Clouds, which meant that they

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

was something strange going

had to remain a secret for multiple reasons. Because of that, they couldn't

Shang to go out into the Hibye and earn some

enough, Lucin's request coincided with

the end, Shang

also asked Lucin how expensive the thing he wanted would

request, he couldn't say anything for several

was the absolute height of

expense for something that

Shang was throwing his money out

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

told Lucin that as long as it was his money, it wouldn't

Shang didn't earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to

his request declined twice, Shang did

went "crying" to his

that he needed that