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.

trust in his large group

that was exactly what

remembered another

Record, the Archivist's

of how Mana worked were almost identical to how the Archivist had described

of that, the God had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been

entertained the thought that the Archivist might

no one but Lucius had become

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

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

not

sounds familiar,I

words he

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

there was

actual corpse of

his true body. 'My current

I could create my old one, it would be like

Shang looked at the silver

have happened

Lucius had become a God, there

could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling his

wanted to get

getting rid

one Lucius

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

what is the

had

'Entropy?'

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

there were eleven, including

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius is

can't be

no or nearly no

living Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill

happened that turned