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?"

battles in the next hours. If everything goes well, Young Master

said before

front of Shang, and he

but they

Peak Ancestral Mage with a twofold Spirit

soon as Shang had killed his opponent, and he directly

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

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

work, Young Master Shang. You can now return

a portal back to my Isolation Barrier?"

Master Shang, it's COULD I have a portal back, PLEASE," the Starlight Queen said with a slight

said evenly, "or

Silence.

Ten seconds of silence.

course, Young Master Shang," the Starlight Queen said, but her polite tone had a

arrived in front of his

at the middle of his inner Isolation Chamber but didn't

his inner world, took out his Addum and Subsis, and focused on creating an entirely new

Sword State and his Saber State, giving

and the Great Sword State. Instead of combining them,

combine

what would

could be used with

of the techniques he had created for all of his swords. His theoretical seventh sword should be able to unleash

Transformation, Shang could easily transform Mana into whatever

Break, Shang could fill his sword with an

was possible for Shang to fill his sword with Darkness Mana and then transform