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.

to put some effort into filtering the Death

automatically but manually due to

reminded of when he had been trying

had felt very similar back

kept focusing on the level four Concept of Death as more time

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

the outside world consumed literally all of his

already noticed that his mind was being altered

very best to filter out all the Death

were consuming slight bits of Death Mana without

Shang was starting to lose more life energy

Judgment Palace had already sacrificed over 25 million

but the barriers the other Empires had

entered and

even

soon as they entered, the Death Mana would kill

kept consuming more

it consumed, it became

Death Mana had taken on very strange

had trained in his own

in here

Changed?

wasn't certain what the right

Mana was less

felt like all the dead Archmages

souls that had died

regrets were combining to create some kind of primordial

was not allowed to

see the difference between his

level of the Death Mana here were incomparable

for Shang to comprehend the first two Concepts

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

it felt to

pull Shang from the living into the realm of the dead, which was exactly how he felt whenever he was severely injured in

His life was ending.

being forcefully pulled away from the