Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's next opponent was a beast with a Water and Lightning Dual Affinity.

The battle went surprisingly well for some time, but then the beast managed to hit Shang by combining several different kinds of attacks.

From that moment on, Shang was on the back foot, and he was concentrating more on staying alive than actually winning.

Of course, due to the way Shang fought and since he was weaker, this meant that he essentially had no chance at victory anymore unless he was very lucky.

In the end, Shang used an all-out attack with the Entropy ability of his swords, but the beast quickly avoided it by moving to the side.

Shang could only look at the big blue stork with a couple of silver feathers.

Several balls of lightning and water were floating around the area, which had been the reason for Shang's difficulties.

The stork had seen how Shang absorbed the surrounding Mana to increase his power and used the balls of lighting and water to block his Void Break.

Of course, if Void Casting were so easily countered, the Mage Lords wouldn't use it.

There were several ways to deal with something like that.

But there was one issue.

Control.

Shang could see the balls, and he could focus on absorbing only the neutral Mana, but the stork's mind was too strong, and its reactions were too quick.

As soon as Shang decided to absorb a smaller bit of Mana, the balls of lightning and water would shoot to that place and fuse with the Mana, resulting in Shang partially absorbing Mana with the stork's will on it.

If Shang's mind were more powerful, he could simply ignore the balls of lightning and water.

Sadly, the stork's mind was an entire Realm above his.

An Initial Beast Lord could fully counter Shang's Void Break.

A Peak Ancestral Beast could partially counter Shang's Void Break.

And a Late Ancestral Beast wouldn't be able to do anything as long as Shang used a bit of effort to use Void Break.

Of course, as Shang's mind became more powerful, he would also be able to use it against stronger beasts, but for now, this was where his limit was.

The stork had completely countered his Void Break.

If he used it, he would get severely injured.

If he used it and canceled the will on the Mana, he would use more Mana than he was gaining.

If he destroyed the balls, the stork would just make more, and since it had far more Mana, Shang would essentially use more Mana than it, proportionally speaking.

At the moment, Shang's body was half-dead, and he had also used up all of his Death Mana.

When Shang had used Radiation, the stork had just surrounded itself in a bubble of water and lightning.

All the Death Mana entered the water, and after the stork dispersed the bubble, the Death Mana just scattered.

However, Shang didn't give up.

knew that he would

no way around

the true essence and weight of death, one had to die at someone else's

keep fighting, even

BANG!

bolt of

another bolt of lightning

was like reality had been transformed into

It was the end.

brief moment, Shang could

'No!'

helplessness, and terror of being in such a

It was death.

to avoid it any

then, it

It just abruptly ended.

No specific last thoughts.

No regrets.

shooting through

No happiness.

No sadness.

No climax.

It was just over.

was even abrupter than

of falling asleep was similar to how life and death

closed their eyes

when they would fall asleep,

happened, it happened so quickly that the person wouldn't

It was just over.

was like that but

the great

people, but

could kill a million people, but when one died,

wouldn't be able to appreciate their past deeds and

person wouldn't be able to regret

popular person wouldn't be able to appreciate how long their name would remain known

be able to lament

It didn't matter.

Nothing mattered.

death arrived, all of one's life's accomplishments were

month, two workers would get the same payment, no matter how productive they

work when you get the same income as

It didn't matter.

It was hopeless.

Pointless.

Disheartening.

Discouraging.

It was regret.

Paradoxical regret.

was almost always filled with regret, but after one

feelings and, therefore, couldn't feel