Sword God in a World of Magic

The Judgment Palace never stopped.

Every second, without fail, they would send in the next Archmage to die.

Shang kept focusing on comprehending the level four Concept of Death, but even while constantly dying, it wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.

One month after it started, around three million Archmages had already died in Shang's territory.

The entire ground had already been transformed into a literal ocean of blood, and only a couple of mountains poked out of the ocean.

Rotting guts and pieces of human bodies could be seen floating inside the ocean.

Yet, there were no insects or scavengers present.

The density of Death Mana already didn't allow such weak beings to exist.

Shang sat on one of those mountains, but the blood was already starting to touch his legs when there were higher waves.

This ocean wasn't nearly as smooth as the real ocean.

No, this ocean was chunky, muddy, and disgusting.

It was like someone had filtered the majority of the water out of a sewage pipe and filled a pool with everything that remained.

Except that this was redder but also not really that red since the coagulated blood turned black.

The ocean of blood even had a thin black skin.

All in all, it was quite unpleasant.

Another month later, no piece of land could be seen anymore.

Naturally, all the living beings, except for Shang, had also died already.

Shang hadn't moved and was completely surrounded by the blood.

He already needed to filter out the Death Mana that was trying to enter his body and mind.

Not doing anything wouldn't immediately result in his death, but it would slowly poison him over a long time.

later, Shang actually had to put some effort

breathing automatically but manually due to the effort

when he had been trying

very similar back

on the level four Concept of Death as

after the start of the Judgment Palace's plan, Shang

in the outside world consumed literally all of

noticed that his mind was being altered by the

to filter out all the Death Mana, his filter wasn't perfect

mind were consuming slight bits of Death Mana without

Shang was starting to lose more

Palace had already sacrificed over 25

barriers the other

Archmages entered

didn't even need to

soon as they entered, the Death Mana would kill them faster

kept

every Archmage it consumed, it became

the Death Mana had

his own little Pit

Death Mana in here

Changed?

certain what the right word

less apathetic

dead Archmages were trying to

souls that had died

some kind of primordial force

was not

see the difference between his little Pit of Death and a real

power, quality, and level of the Death Mana here were

Pit of Death might have been enough for Shang to comprehend the first two Concepts

very similar to the Death Mana he had experienced after his longevity had

it

realm of the dead,

His life was ending.

pulled away