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

But Shang just continued.

Another 50 years passed.

gone, and he only had about

flip side, Shang had already made sense of

the Concept actually

been in vain since Shang noticed that a lot of his guesses had proven

that was thanks to

then, 30 years later, he

smoke stopped coming out of Shang's shoulder, and

took a

Shang would take about 200 years to

had actually only needed

wasn't that Lucius had underestimated Shang's talent but that Shang had already spent several centuries watching

would have probably needed to sacrifice a chunk of his torso

needed to sacrifice

of this moment, Shang's entire left arm was gone, just like

been a brutal

in a long while and directly noticed that his balance

a blank space where his left arm was

his arm was still there,

nothing happened, and

a strange and

his Subsis, which was lying

his left arm to pick it up, but nothing

had always fought with his Addum in his right hand and his

swing

the new techniques he had created

Shang only had

style had been

image asked. There was a small inkling of empathy

didn't look at

Path, and all these sacrifices push me closer to its

had been

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

there were four

"Then, there were two."

there

able to realize the full potential of my fighting style, but the other

made the correct

I would do

Lucius' image turned blurrier.

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