Sword God in a World of Magic

In the real world, Shang opened his eyes with a neutral expression.

"Lucius Volstad," Shang said as he looked at the sky.

Shang remembered the blonde corpse that the God had kicked around in his palace.

That had been the Mage God, and the Mage God was Lucius Volstad.

Based on the appearance of the naked corpse, it really had been Lucius Volstad. The corpse had looked identical to what Gregorio had shown him, and it was also identical to the image in the Trial of Want.

Lastly, with Shang's current experience, he could tell that there were several signs of the body being real, and Shang could also tell that it had the Aura of an actual Mage.

Shang was 99% sure that the corpse had been real and that this had truly been Lucius Volstad's corpse.

But then, what about the God?

The God couldn'tjust randomly have the same name as the Mage God, right?

Lucius had definitely died.

Yet, Lucius was alive.

But the Lucius that was alive was extremely different from the Lucius that everybody knew.

At that moment, Shang remembered a couple of things.

Gregorio had told Shang that Lucius had seemed quite conflicted from time to time.

It was like he was at odds with himself.

Then, Shang thought about the God's strong reaction to Alex's question.

The God had seemed quite angry.

Too angry for such a question.

There was definitely some emotional tension to this topic.

Even more, the God had said that he hated naive and good people.

Yet, wasn't that exactly what Lucius had been?

Based on what Gregorio had told Shang, Lucius was a very kind man who didn't want to hurt people.

Lucius had even done his best to stop Abominations from appearing in Aterium, even though he didn't always succeed.

shown deep trust in his large

exactly

remembered

Record, the Archivist's

almost identical to how the Archivist had

had either existed when Lucius had

then, Shang had entertained the thought that the Archivist might be older than the

no one but Lucius had become a God in

that Lucius was dead, he hadn't entertained the thought

It made no sense.

it

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius

sounds familiar,I Shang

the words he had said after

"My name is Shang."

am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was still an important

an actual

body. 'My current body also can't compare

could create my old one, it would be like

moment, Shang looked at the silver

happened after Lucius became

God is Lucius, when Lucius had become a God,

there should have been nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling his

get rid

getting rid of them,

one Lucius must

had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have

what is the

the Mana of the world had returned, what is the

'Entropy?'

he would still need at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which means that there

were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

least one

Lucius can't be

has no or nearly no Mana in

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful

have happened that turned him into the