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.

Shang could

things were

While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too

Abominations, and no one was allowed to see his

thought of a solution to that problem, but the solution

Like, really expensive.

fate would have it,

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he was too

criticizing Shang for his

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

he wouldn't need to earn anything. After all, he was getting ten times as

exactly that was the

single Cloud had a

Shang remained completely

in

sole "warrior", Shang was already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that

hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't come out

something strange going

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

go out into the

request coincided with Shang

end,

how expensive the thing

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

absolute height

a ridiculous expense for something that would barely

throwing his money out

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

as long as it was his money,

countered by saying that Shang didn't earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to it.

his request declined twice, Shang did

"crying" to his

that he needed that for his