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.

of Blood. After all, Shang could

things 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 it would very much

Abominations, and no one was allowed to see his

thought of a solution to that

Like, really expensive.

already thought of a way, and as fate would have

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he was too

criticizing Shang

enough resources to become more powerful in the Hibye, one

After all, he was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and

exactly that was the

had a boundless ambition to become

Shang remained completely isolated for

he in need

conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid very close

he had come into contact with portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't

something strange

remain a secret for multiple reasons. Because of that,

the Hibye and earn some resources just

Lucin's request coincided with Shang needing more

end, Shang

asked Lucin how expensive the thing he

request, he couldn't say anything

was the absolute

expense for something that would barely accomplish

throwing

explicitly stop something like this from happening, and

told Lucin that as long as it was his money, it

money but that the Lightning Manor gave him access to it. After

declined twice, Shang did something he hadn't

"crying" to his

that he needed