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 in his large group

that was exactly what the God

remembered

Record, the

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

the God had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been alive or

the thought that the Archivist

no one but Lucius had become a God in

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

It made no sense.

it

Lucius was the God.

the God was not the

sounds familiar,I

words he

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

but there

an actual

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

would be like there

looked

have happened after

Lucius, when Lucius had become a God, there had been no other

nothing that could have stopped

wanted to get rid

of getting rid of them,

Lucius

had 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,

'Entropy?'

retain his human mind, which means that there

were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius

can't be fully made of

living Lucius has no or nearly no Mana

living Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill

turned