Sword God in a World of Magic

"Then, what's even the point of this entire conversation?" Shang asked.

"If everything is hopeless to begin with, and all of existence is doomed to die to the Abominations either way, what point would any of my actions have?"

The Lightning Emperor looked with a complicated expression at Shang.

He realized that he had painted a very bleak picture. While he didn't think that everything would be hopeless and meaningless in that case, he could see that wanting an answer from Shang for such a hypothetical would be intellectually dishonest for judging his actual character.

In the end, the Lightning Emperor was kind of relieved by Shang's answers.

Shang was a very dark person with very dark desires, but he was still far better than King Sanctified Death.

Even more, even if Shang were… it didn't matter.

Maybe, he wasn't even the first…

The Lightning Emperor felt the conflict of his emotions rising more and more, but he just pushed everything to the side again.

"Please, contact Sarah regarding the war. I will deal with all the opponents you will need. The best thing you can do is to buy us enough time to survive to the next phase of the war," the Lightning Emperor said in an effort to end the conversation.

Shang just nodded wordlessly.

The next moment, a portal opened in front of Shang that led to his Isolation Barrier to the north of Aterium, and Shang walked through it.

When Shang arrived, he looked at his fake left arm again for a second before contacting the Starlight Queen.

"You're back, Young Master Shang," she said with a polite tone.

"I am," Shang answered. "Is there anything you need me to do?"

prepared to join a couple of battles in the next hours. If everything goes well, Young Master Shang can return to training in

before cutting the

portal opened in front of Shang, and he simply charged through

themselves for a battle, but they were killed before they could even

had only been a Peak Ancestral Mage with a twofold

portal opened as soon as Shang had killed his opponent, and he directly entered the

distance, the Mage Kings grunted in annoyance as they ordered all the Peak Ancestral Mages to retreat from the

Shang had pushed back all the Peak Ancestral Mages again, effectively disabling 50%

Young Master Shang. You can now return to

I have a portal back to my Isolation Barrier?"

Starlight Queen said with a slight chuckle. "Please, try to talk in a way that is befitting of your

a portal," Shang said evenly, "or I won't show

Silence.

Ten seconds of silence.

but her polite tone had a slight

in front of his Isolation

middle of his inner Isolation

Shang retreated into his inner world, took out his Addum and Subsis, and focused

Sword State and his

reduction of the Long Sword State and the Great Sword State. Instead of combining them, Shang had

Shang had to combine

what would

Shang needed something that could be used with all four

of the techniques he had created for all of his swords. His

the Concept of Transformation, Shang could easily

Break, Shang could fill his sword with an incredible amount of

his sword with Darkness Mana and then transform all