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

that was exactly

Shang remembered

Record, the

were almost identical to how the Archivist had described

Paths that had either existed

thought that

but Lucius had become a God in

he hadn't entertained the thought that the God was

It made no sense.

it was

Lucius was the God.

not the Lucius everybody

that sounds familiar,I

of the words he had said

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was still an important

actual corpse of

as he actually looked at his true body. 'My current body also can't

one, it would be like there had been

next moment, Shang looked at

monumental must have happened after Lucius became a

Lucius had become a God, there had been

have been nothing that could have

wanted to get

instead of getting rid

one Lucius must have

the Abominations had become weak again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned

what is

the world had returned, what is

'Entropy?'

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

were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

least one

be fully made

or nearly no

is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful Peak Mage

must have happened that turned