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

was no longer breathing automatically but manually due to the effort and focus

been trying to comprehend the Concept

felt very similar back

kept focusing on the level four Concept of Death as more

Palace's plan, Shang

in the outside world

mind was being altered by

was doing his very best to filter out all the Death Mana, his filter

were consuming slight bits

start, Shang was starting to

the Judgment Palace had already sacrificed over 25 million

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

entered and

even need to kill

would kill

Death Mana kept consuming more

every Archmage it consumed,

had taken on very strange

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

Death Mana in here

Changed?

what the right

Mana was less

the dead Archmages were

like all the hate-filled and aggrieved souls that had died here were banding together to kill

combining to create some kind of primordial force that wanted to

not allowed

the difference between his little Pit of Death and

level of the Death Mana here were

comprehend the first two Concepts

him right now felt very similar to the Death Mana he had experienced

was how it

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

His life was ending.

pulled away