Sword God in a World of Magic

Time passed.

After a couple of years, quite a big chunk of Shang's stump had already vanished into nothingness.

It was a strange feeling to lose a part of oneself.

It didn't even hurt.

In a technical sense, Shang never received an injury while he was doing this since he had always been in his peak condition.

And yet, experiencing something like this elicited a certain feeling of approaching doom in someone.

A normal human could see this like their arm slowly necrosing.

With every passing second, death would come closer to one's core.

But Shang just continued and kept watching the process.

Due to the long time he had watched the Abominations before, he had already made many connections.

Even just the name of the Concept had already helped.

Transformation.

It was one thing turning into another.

With Shang's normal Domain of Entropy, he was turning Elemental Mana into Neutral Mana, but he also had to use his body as fuel.

Meanwhile, Abominations could just turn every kind of Mana into nothing without paying a price.

It was almost like they were using the Mana around them as fuel to destroy the Mana around them.

Yet, something like this was impossible.

Shang knew that his abilities were superior to Lucius' abilities while they had been on similar levels.

Lucius hadn't had access to the Domain of Entropy until the Peak Ancestral Mage Realm.

When Lucius had comprehended the Concept of Transformation, he gained a Domain that would turn all kinds of Mana into Neutral Mana without paying a price.

What would Shang get?

He already had quite a good guess.

More years passed.

of Transformation for 50 years, and his

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

and he only had about 75% of his upper

the flip side, Shang had already made sense

the Concept actually seemed understandable

the several centuries of watching Abominations before this had not been in vain since Shang noticed that a lot of his guesses had

that was thanks to the many centuries of watching

30 years later, he

stopped coming out of Shang's shoulder, and the life energy inside

took a

Shang would take

had actually only

but that Shang

probably needed to sacrifice a chunk of his

to sacrifice his

of this moment, Shang's entire left arm

been a

first time in a long

a blank space where his left

his arm was still there, and he willed it

nothing happened, and

a strange and alien

Subsis, which was lying

left arm to pick it

always fought with his Addum in his right hand and

couldn't swing both of

the new techniques he had created

only

fighting style had

feel?" Lucius' image asked. There was a small inkling of

look at

my Path, and all these

swords had been

created my four Paths, I had already aimed at

there were

"Then, there were two."

now, there

the full potential of my fighting style, but the

made the correct

would do it

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

can fulfill your dream," Lucius said