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.

also shown deep trust in his large

was exactly what the

remembered

Record, the Archivist's

Mana worked were almost identical

had either existed when Lucius had been alive or had

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

become a God in the

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

It made no sense.

it was

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius

sounds familiar,I

of the words he had

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

there was still an

actual

his true body. 'My current body also

would be

next moment, Shang looked at the silver wall

happened

had become a God, there

nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling

get rid of the

instead of getting rid of them, something

one Lucius must have

had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any Emperors except

what is

world had

'Entropy?'

his human mind, which means that there

were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius

be fully made of

Lucius has no or

is still powerful enough to easily

have happened that turned him into the