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.

comprehending the Concept of Transformation for 50 years, and

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

already gone, and he only had

had already made sense

first time, the Concept actually seemed

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

and that was thanks

years later, he finally did

shoulder, and the life energy inside the crystals

a

would take about

Shang had actually only needed 130

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

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

to sacrifice his

entire left arm was gone, just

had been a brutal

time in a long while and directly noticed that his balance was

blank space where his left arm was supposed to be felt

still there, and he willed

nothing happened,

such a strange and alien

looked at his Subsis, which was lying on

to pick it up,

Addum in his right hand

couldn't swing

new techniques he had created relied on two

Shang only had

fighting style had

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

didn't look at

have chosen my Path,

had been a temporary

had already aimed at one

there were four

"Then, there were two."

now, there will be

be able to realize the full potential

the correct

I would do

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

you can fulfill your dream," Lucius