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 effort

automatically but

of when he had been trying to comprehend the Concept

very

four Concept of Death as more time

after the start of the Judgment Palace's plan, Shang couldn't train

in the outside world consumed literally all

his mind was being altered

very best to filter

and mind were consuming slight bits of Death Mana without

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

Judgment Palace had already sacrificed over 25

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

Archmages entered and

they didn't even need to kill themselves

entered, the Death Mana would kill them faster than they

Mana kept

it consumed, it became

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

in here

Changed?

certain what the right word

less

all the dead Archmages were trying to take him with them

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

hatred and regrets were combining to create some

was not

now see the difference between his

level of the Death Mana here were incomparable to the one from back

two Concepts of Death, but it wouldn't have been enough

around him right now felt very similar to the Death Mana

was how it felt to

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

His life was ending.

being forcefully pulled away from