Sword God in a World of Magic

The jester had been watching Shang with interest.

Almost everyone only experienced death once, and they never had an opportunity to think back to how it was to die.

Nearly dying and being in the process of dying were very different from actually dying.

Some people would gain the opportunity to feel how it was to come close to death, but they weren't allowed to actually touch it.

But there still were ways to comprehend the level four Concept of Death.

For example, the Death Empress had once put herself into a coma for over a thousand years, which was about as close to death as one could get.

One wouldn't be able to experience the world or think about one's decision while one was lying in a coma.

Everything only happened after.

It was interesting to see someone actually experience death and have the opportunity to reflect on it.

"Sure," the God said as the Affinity Wheel spun again.

Shang didn't move or say anything as he waited for the Affinity Wheel to stop.

When it finally stopped, he simply used Void Break and unleashed Missile.

In an instant, the Mage had been killed.

Shang reloaded his swords and waited for the next fight.

BANG!

More waiting.

BANG!

More waiting.

BANG!

More waiting.

BANG!

More waiting.

BANG!

More waiting.

BANG!

More waiting.

Shang actually had to put some effort into

the

in one strike, but it was slow enough that an experienced Mid

of using Missile, Shang used up the Mana in his Subsis to create

speeds and reached the Mage

released a powerful and quick spear made of

Missile later, and

the Affinity Wheel

Weak

bell rang, Shang

a couple of powerful Spells, waiting for Shang

BOOOOOOOM!

Mage died as

through a Late Ancestral

quite a bit slower, but the opponent wasn't

waited for the Affinity Wheel

Mages were far greater than between

about as easy as killing a weak Late Ancestral Beast, but killing a powerful Late Ancestral Mage was even more difficult

eleven: Average Late Ancestral

and Shang shot toward them after summoning the corridor

two Spells, but Shang side-stepped them without too much

BANG!

hit the Mage's Mana Shield with a Needle, but it didn't deal a lot of

quite dangerous and

absorbed the corridor of darkness with Void Break and released it again,

readied his next Spell, but then Shang suddenly disappeared and reappeared right in front of the

swung forward, and Missile

attack was powerful but

that attack and hit his opponent with a Spell of

Missile hit.

CRACK!

in the Mana Shield, and the Mage's body

later, the Mana

when the Mage ran out of Mana, but this one dispersed after a

hadn't actually been

bit later, Shang began to age and fell to the ground as a half-dead

loaded it with

Mana in front of it, he essentially infused it into the Mage's