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.

couple of months later, Shang actually had to put some effort into filtering the

longer breathing automatically but manually

was reminded of when he had been trying to comprehend the

felt very similar back

on the level four

the Judgment Palace's plan, Shang

the outside world consumed

mind was being altered

to filter out all the Death Mana, his filter wasn't perfect

body and mind were consuming slight bits of Death

was starting to lose more life energy

had already sacrificed

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

Archmages entered and

even need to kill themselves

entered, the Death Mana would

Death Mana kept consuming more and

Archmage it consumed,

the Death Mana had

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

in

Changed?

wasn't certain what the

less

dead Archmages were trying to take him with them

aggrieved souls that had died here were

create some kind of primordial force that wanted

was not allowed

the difference between his little Pit of Death and a

quality, and level of the Death Mana here were

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

now felt very similar to the Death Mana he had

how it felt to

living into the realm of the dead, which was exactly

His life was ending.

forcefully pulled away from