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.

Transformation for 50 years, and his stump had

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

entire elbow was already gone, and he only had about 75% of

flip side, Shang had already made

the Concept actually

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

that was thanks to

30 years later, he finally did

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

took a

had expected that Shang would take about 200 years to comprehend

had actually

but that Shang had already spent

that, Shang would have probably needed to sacrifice a chunk of

needed to

left arm was gone,

had been a

up for the first time in a long while

a blank space where his left arm was supposed to be felt

was still there, and he

happened, and

such a

looked at his Subsis, which was lying on the

willed his left arm to

his Addum in his right hand

swing both

the new techniques he had created

only had

style had been

a small inkling of empathy and

look

doesn't matter," Shang said evenly. "I have chosen my Path, and

swords had been a temporary

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

there were four

"Then, there were two."

there will be

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

the correct

I would do it

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

hope you can fulfill your dream," Lucius said as he