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

exactly what the God

Shang remembered another

Watcher's Record,

of how Mana worked were almost identical to

the God had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had

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

one but Lucius had become a

since 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 Lucius

that sounds familiar,I

of the words he

"My name is Shang."

am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was still an important

an actual corpse

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

I could create my old one, it would be like there

next moment, Shang looked at the

happened

since the God is Lucius, when Lucius had become

should have been nothing that could have stopped

wanted to get rid of the

rid

Lucius must

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

what is

had returned, what is the God

'Entropy?'

30% Mana to retain his human mind, which

there were eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius is

can't be fully made

living Lucius has no or nearly no

still powerful enough to easily

turned