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 group

was exactly what the God

remembered another

Watcher's Record, the

were almost identical to how the Archivist

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

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

had become a God in the Archivist's

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

It made no sense.

yet, it

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius everybody

sounds familiar,I Shang

of the words he had

"My name is Shang."

I am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

there was still

actual

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

create my old one, it would

moment, Shang looked at the silver wall

have happened after Lucius became

is Lucius, when Lucius had

could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling

get rid

instead of getting rid of them, something

one Lucius must

again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had

then, what

had returned, what is the God made

'Entropy?'

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

were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one

Lucius can't be fully made

living Lucius has no or nearly no Mana in his

is still powerful enough to easily

that turned him into