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.

deep trust

that was exactly what the God

Shang remembered

Record, the

of how Mana worked were almost identical to

top of that, the God had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been alive or had

Shang had entertained the thought that

no one but Lucius had become a God

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

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

was not the Lucius

that sounds familiar,I

words he had said after leaving

"My name is Shang."

I am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

similarities, but there was still

was an actual corpse of

he actually looked at his true body. 'My current body

would be like there

Shang looked at

happened after Lucius

when Lucius had become a

there should have been nothing that could have stopped

get rid of the

of getting rid of them, something

one Lucius must have

all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to

what

all the Mana of the world had returned, what

'Entropy?'

need at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which

eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

one

be

no or nearly

enough to easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and

that turned him into the mad