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

that was exactly

Shang remembered another

Watcher's Record, the Archivist's

of how Mana worked were almost identical

had either existed when Lucius had been alive or had been in

entertained the thought that

no one but Lucius had become a God in the

believed that Lucius was dead, he hadn't entertained

It made no sense.

yet, it

Lucius was the God.

not

that sounds familiar,I Shang

of the words he had said

"My name is Shang."

am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

there was still

an actual corpse of

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

it would be like there had been two

moment, Shang looked at the silver

have happened after

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

been nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling

get rid of the

rid of

Lucius must have

all, the Abominations 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

then, what is

had returned, what

'Entropy?'

still need at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which means that there could only be like seven

eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

least one Lucius is

Lucius can't be

living Lucius has no or nearly no Mana

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and maybe

must have happened that turned him into