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.

could just summon some Abominations while he was walking

were different

Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising,

no one was allowed to see his interaction with

thought of a solution to that problem, but the solution was very

Like, really expensive.

already thought of a way, and as fate would have it, something else

It was Lucin.

that he was

Shang for his

gain enough resources

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

that was the

a

Shang remained completely isolated

in need of

Shang was already very conspicuous amongst the

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

something strange going

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

out into the Hibye

coincided with Shang needing more

end, Shang

asked Lucin how expensive the thing he wanted

Lucin heard Shang's request, he couldn't

was the absolute height of

a ridiculous expense for something that would

was throwing his money out of the

happening, and he

Lucin that 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. After all, he wasn't contributing to the Lightning Manor

Shang did something he hadn't

went "crying" to his

he needed that for his