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.

all, Shang could just summon

were

Abominations appearing here would immediately be noticed by several Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too

Abominations, and no one was allowed to see his interaction

to that problem, but the

Like, really expensive.

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

It was Lucin.

Shang that he was too

Shang

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

long as Shang didn't 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

that was

single Cloud had a

completely isolated

in

very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid

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

was something

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

into the Hibye and

enough, Lucin's request coincided with Shang needing more money

the end, Shang

he also asked Lucin how expensive the

Lucin heard Shang's request, he couldn't say anything for

the absolute

expense for something that would barely accomplish

was throwing his

happening, and he told Shang that he wouldn't approve of something like

as long as it was his money, it wouldn't

earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access

his request declined twice, Shang

"crying" to

he