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.

of months later, Shang actually had to put some

like he was no longer breathing automatically but

reminded of when he had been trying to comprehend the

very similar

level four Concept

the Judgment Palace's plan, Shang couldn't

outside world

already noticed that his mind was

was doing his very best to filter out all

were consuming slight bits of Death Mana

was starting to lose more

the Judgment Palace had already sacrificed over

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

Archmages entered and

didn't even

Mana would kill them faster than they could kill

Mana kept consuming

Archmage it consumed,

more, the Death Mana had

lot of Death Mana back when he had trained in his own little Pit of Death, but he

Mana in here

Changed?

certain what the right word

Death Mana was less apathetic and

like all the dead Archmages were trying to take him with them

and aggrieved souls that had died here were banding

create some

not allowed to

between his little Pit of Death and a

Mana here were incomparable to the

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

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

was how it felt

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

His life was ending.

being forcefully pulled