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.

issue in the Temple of Blood. After all, Shang could just summon some Abominations while he was walking to and from

were

Abominations appearing here would immediately be noticed by several Mage Lords. While the appearance of an Abomination might not be too surprising,

one was allowed to see

of a solution to that

Like, really expensive.

thought of a way, and as fate would have it, something else was pushing him toward that way

It was Lucin.

Shang that he

criticizing Shang for his

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

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

that was

a boundless ambition to

completely isolated

he in need of

amongst the Clouds, which meant

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

something

secret for multiple reasons. Because of

go out into the Hibye and earn some resources just for

request coincided with Shang needing more money

end, Shang

how expensive the thing

heard Shang's request, he couldn't say

absolute height

a ridiculous expense for something

was throwing his money out of

to explicitly stop something like this from happening,

that as long as it was

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

getting his request declined twice, Shang did something he hadn't done

went "crying" to his

told Queen Primordium that he needed that