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

breathing automatically but manually

been trying

had felt very similar

on the level four Concept of Death

Judgment Palace's plan, Shang couldn't train inside

the outside world consumed

that his mind was

best to filter out all the Death Mana, his filter

and mind were consuming slight bits of Death Mana without him wanting

months after the start, Shang was starting to lose more life energy than he

already sacrificed over 25

the barriers the other Empires had built around Shang's barrier kept

Archmages entered and

they didn't even

would kill them faster than they could

Death Mana kept consuming more and

Archmage it consumed, it became more

Death Mana had taken on very

had been around a lot of Death Mana back when he had trained in his own little Pit of Death, but he had never felt anything like this

Death Mana in here

Changed?

certain what the right word

was less apathetic and more

the dead Archmages were trying to take

was like all the hate-filled and aggrieved souls that had died

to create some kind

was not allowed

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

the Death Mana here were

might have been enough for Shang to comprehend the first two Concepts of Death, but it wouldn't have been enough to teach Shang the Concept of

Mana that was around him right now felt very similar to

it felt

trying to pull Shang from the living into the realm of the dead, which was

His life was ending.

pulled away from the