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

was exactly what the

Shang remembered another

Record,

were almost identical to

Paths that had either existed

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

no one but Lucius had become a

dead, he hadn't entertained

It made no sense.

yet, it

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius

sounds familiar,I

of the words he had said

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was still

an actual

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

one, it would be like there had been two of

moment, Shang looked

monumental must have happened after Lucius

since the God is Lucius, when Lucius had become a God, there

there should have been nothing that could have stopped Lucius from

to get rid of the

getting rid of them,

Lucius must

become weak again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been

then, what is

world had returned, what is the God made

'Entropy?'

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

eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius is

Lucius can't be fully

or nearly no Mana in

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

must have happened that turned