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.

shown deep trust in his large

that was exactly what

Shang remembered

Watcher's Record,

how Mana worked were almost identical to how the Archivist had

referenced Paths that had either existed

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

one but Lucius had become a God

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

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius everybody

sounds

of the words he

"My name is Shang."

I am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was

was an actual

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

one, it would be like there had been two

moment, Shang looked at

must have happened after Lucius became

Lucius, when Lucius had become a God, there had been

nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling his

to get rid of

rid

one Lucius must have

all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had

then, what

had returned, what is the

'Entropy?'

mind, which means that

there were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one

be fully

living Lucius has no or nearly

easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and maybe

must have happened that turned him into the mad