Sword God in a World of Magic

At the southeastern corner, Shang saw a Mid Archmage enter.

An instant later, they exploded into a shower of gore.

Then, an Early Archmage entered and exploded.

The barrier only restricted more powerful people from entering. If they so chose to, weaker Mages could also fight the defender of the flag.

The Judgment Palace was sending in one fighter after the other, which immediately committed suicide.

Of course, there was a certain limitation to the rules. Only people within one Realm of difference were allowed to fight. That rule was to make sure that no weak and innocent people were accidentally killed since very weak people didn't necessarily know what was going on.

This meant that no one below the Early Archmage Realm was allowed to trigger the barrier and "fight" Shang.

So, every single person that entered and exploded was at least an Early Archmage.

Every single second, an Archmage from the Judgment Palace died in Shang's territory.

As time passed, Shang could feel something change.

The Death Mana in the surroundings was very slowly increasing in density.

'They want to turn my territory into a Pit of Death,' Shang thought.

'They are insane.'

Turning a barrier with a diameter of 10,000 kilometers into a Pit of Death powerful enough to kill an Ancestral Mage was beyond crazy.

Even if they used high-grade "bodies", such as Archmages, it would literally take millions upon millions to achieve that.

The Judgment Palace was using a very specific way to kill these Mages, which resulted in the density of their bodies and blood to reduce.

But in exchange for that, the volume increased drastically. Every single explosion coated the surrounding kilometers in a thick sheet of blood with lower density.

Death Mana would corrupt a greater area, getting rid of the other kinds of Mana

Shang's territory into an ocean of blood that would retain Death Mana with great

Palace was willing to exchange several million

there were 100 million Archmages living

Death Mana, they would probably

Archmages in

For Shang.

of

Probably not.

surprise or shock Shang, but the

but it

him to gather Death Mana and essentially throw it out of the

would unveil one of

mastery over the Concepts

Sense, but if he showed that he had mastery over death to a certain extent, the other Empires might actually suspect him of being the

could fight King Sanctified

from being equivalent to a Mage King to being

actually decide to sacrifice a Mage King to deal

from a relatively close range, not even an Emperor would be fast enough to

would be killed as a result, but

couldn't possibly show that he knew about the Concepts

being surrounded

That was still dangerous.

to someone like

wouldn't be any different

some point, Shang would just

territory getting rapidly filled with blood and

one year, all of this would turn into an area of

wouldn't be easy

this

to comprehend the level four Concept of Death. Maybe being surrounded by so much

Mana. No matter what I do, my body can't survive on Death Mana alone. That would be contradictory to the very existence of