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.

had also shown deep trust

that was exactly what the God

remembered

Record, the Archivist's

God's descriptions of how Mana worked were almost identical to how the Archivist had described

only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius

Shang had entertained the thought that

become a God

he hadn't entertained the thought that the God

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

God was not the

sounds familiar,I Shang

of the words he had said after leaving Area

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

similarities, but there

was an actual

true body.

I could create my old one, it would be like there had been two of

looked at the silver wall

happened after Lucius

when Lucius had become a God, there

been nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling his

wanted to get

rid of them, something

Lucius must

become weak again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any Emperors except for the

then, what

all the Mana of the world had returned, what is

'Entropy?'

retain his human mind, which means that there could only be like seven

were eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius

be fully made

has no or

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful

have happened that turned him into