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

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

no one was allowed to see his interaction with

of a solution to

Like, really expensive.

way, and as fate would have

It was Lucin.

told Shang that he

Shang for his

actually wanted to gain enough resources

he was getting ten times as many resources as anyone else, and on top

that

had a boundless ambition to become

Shang remained completely isolated for

he in

was already very conspicuous amongst the Clouds, which meant that they paid

portals, got hidden by Isolation Barriers, and didn't come out to

something strange going

a secret for multiple reasons. Because of

told Shang to go out into the Hibye and earn some resources just

with

end, Shang

asked Lucin how expensive the

he couldn't say anything for

was the absolute height of

a ridiculous expense for something that would

was like Shang was throwing his money out

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

as long as it was

earn any of that money but that the Lightning Manor gave him

Shang

went "crying" to his

that he needed that for