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.

Blood. After all, Shang could just summon some Abominations while he was walking to and from a

were different

While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly vanishing when Shang touched

access to Abominations, and no one

to that problem, but

Like, really expensive.

already thought of a way, and as fate would have

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he

wasn't criticizing Shang for

wanted to gain enough resources to become more

was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and

that was the

Cloud had a boundless ambition to

Shang remained completely

in need

already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid

into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation

was something strange going

had to remain a secret for multiple reasons. Because of that, they

told Shang to go out into the Hibye and earn some resources just for

with Shang needing more money

end, Shang

how expensive the thing

he couldn't say

was the absolute

expense for something that would barely

was like Shang was throwing his money out of the

explicitly stop something like this from happening, and he told

that as long as it was his

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

getting his request declined twice, Shang

went "crying" to

that he needed