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.

also shown deep trust in

that was exactly what the God

remembered another

Record, the

how Mana worked were almost

either existed when Lucius had been alive or had been in the Watcher's

had entertained the thought that the Archivist might be older than

had become

was dead, he hadn't entertained

It made no sense.

it

Lucius was the God.

God was not

sounds

thought of the words he had said after leaving

"My name is Shang."

am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was

an actual corpse of

he actually looked at his true body. 'My current

could create my old one, it would be like there had been two of

next moment, Shang looked

happened after Lucius

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

have been nothing that could have

to get rid

getting rid of them, something

one Lucius

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

then, what is the

the Mana of the world had returned, what is the

'Entropy?'

mind, which means that there could only be

there were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one

living Lucius can't be fully

has no or nearly no Mana in his

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily

happened that turned