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.

for

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

Shang's entire elbow was already gone, and he only had about 75% of his

had already made sense of most of the

the first time, the Concept actually seemed understandable

Abominations before this had not been in vain since Shang noticed that a lot

was faster than expected, and that was

then, 30 years later,

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

a

expected that Shang would take about 200 years to

actually only needed 130

wasn't that Lucius had underestimated Shang's talent but that Shang had already

needed to sacrifice a chunk of his torso for the

only needed to sacrifice

left arm was gone,

been a brutal

for the first time in a long while

where his left arm was supposed to be

felt like his arm was still there,

nothing happened, and

such a strange

looked at his Subsis, which

to pick it

fought with his Addum in his right hand

swing

new techniques he had created relied

only

fighting style had

asked. There was a small inkling of empathy and pity in his

look at

said evenly. "I have chosen my Path, and all these sacrifices push me closer to

been a temporary

my four Paths, I had already aimed at one day combining all

there were four

"Then, there were two."

now, there will be

might not be able to realize the full potential of my fighting

made the correct

I would

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

you can fulfill your dream," Lucius