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

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

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

had already made sense of most of the

Concept actually

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

and that was

30 years later, he finally did

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

a deep

had expected that Shang would take about 200 years

Shang had actually only needed

Lucius had underestimated Shang's talent but that Shang had already spent several centuries

a chunk of his torso for the remaining 70

needed to sacrifice

Shang's entire left arm

had been

in a long while and directly noticed that his balance was

a blank space where his left arm was supposed to be

felt like his arm was still there, and he willed it

happened,

such a

Subsis, which was lying

arm to

Addum in his right hand and his Subsis

couldn't swing both

techniques he had created relied

only

fighting style

was a small inkling of empathy and

didn't look at

matter," Shang said evenly. "I have chosen my Path, and all

two swords had been

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

there were four

"Then, there were two."

there will be

able to realize the full potential of my

the correct

I would do

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

hope you can fulfill your dream," Lucius said as