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.

the Temple of Blood. After all, Shang could just summon

were different

be noticed by several Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising, it suddenly

Shang needed access to Abominations, and no one was allowed to see his

of a solution to that problem, but the solution was

Like, really expensive.

a way, and as fate would have it, something

It was Lucin.

told Shang that

criticizing Shang for

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

to 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

exactly that was

had a boundless ambition to become

Shang remained completely isolated

in need

was already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that

portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't

was something strange going

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

Lucin told Shang to go out into the Hibye

Lucin's request coincided with Shang needing more

the end,

Lucin how expensive the

he couldn't say anything for

absolute

was a ridiculous expense for something

was like Shang was throwing his money out

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

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

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

declined twice, Shang did something he hadn't

went "crying" to his

that he needed that