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.

had to put some effort

automatically but

of when he had been trying to comprehend

had felt very similar back

kept focusing on the level four Concept

the start of the Judgment Palace's plan, Shang couldn't

in the outside world consumed literally

already noticed that his mind was being altered

to filter out all

mind were consuming slight bits of

was starting to lose more life energy than

the Judgment Palace had already sacrificed over

fully been filled with blood, but the barriers the other Empires had built around Shang's barrier kept forcing the

entered and

enough, they didn't even need to kill

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

Death Mana kept consuming

every Archmage it consumed, it became more

more, the Death Mana had

had trained in his

in here had…

Changed?

what the right

Mana was less apathetic

dead Archmages were trying to take him with

and aggrieved souls that

were combining to create some kind

was not allowed to

now see the difference between his little

the Death Mana here were incomparable to the one from back

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

around him right now felt very similar to the Death Mana he had experienced after his longevity

how it

like some kind of force was trying to pull Shang from the living into the realm

His life was ending.

pulled away from