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

that was exactly

Shang remembered

Record,

Mana worked were almost identical to

had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been

Shang had entertained the thought that the Archivist might

but Lucius had become a God in the

dead, he hadn't entertained the thought

It made no sense.

it

Lucius was the God.

the God was not

that sounds familiar,I

he had said after leaving Area

"My name is Shang."

I am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was

an actual corpse of

looked at his true body. 'My current body also can't compare to my

my old one, it would

Shang looked at the silver

have happened after Lucius

the God is Lucius, when Lucius had become a God,

should have been nothing that could have

get rid of

getting rid of

Lucius

Mana Lucius had absorbed had

what is the

the Mana of the world had returned,

'Entropy?'

at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which means that there could only be like seven or

eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

least one Lucius

Lucius can't be

or nearly no Mana in his

is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and maybe even

must have happened that turned