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.

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

things were

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

one was allowed to see his interaction

a solution to that problem, but the solution

Like, really expensive.

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

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he

wasn't criticizing Shang

was that there were other Clouds, and if one actually wanted to gain 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 that, he had Queen Primordium as his

that was

had a boundless ambition to

remained completely isolated for

in

Shang was already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds,

come into contact with portals, got hidden

was something strange going

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

told Shang to go out into the Hibye and

request coincided with Shang needing

the end,

expensive the thing he

heard Shang's request, he couldn't say

was the absolute height of

for something that

like Shang was throwing his money

job to explicitly stop something like this from happening,

told Lucin that as long as it

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 something he hadn't done

went "crying"

that he needed that for his