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.

hadn't been an issue in the Temple of Blood. After 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 surprising, it suddenly vanishing when Shang touched

and no one was allowed to see his

thought of a solution to that problem, but the solution

Like, really expensive.

had already thought of a way, and as fate would have

It was Lucin.

told Shang that

Shang

were other Clouds, and if one actually wanted to gain enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one needed to interact

as long as Shang didn't ask for something ridiculously expensive, he wouldn't need to earn anything. After all, he was getting ten

exactly that was the

a boundless

completely isolated for

in need of

conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid very

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

something strange going

for multiple reasons. Because of that, they

to go out into the Hibye and

enough, Lucin's request coincided with

end,

Lucin how expensive the thing he wanted

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

absolute height of

expense for something that would barely accomplish

Shang was throwing

from happening,

long as

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

Shang did something he hadn't done

"crying" to his

that he needed that for his