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.

had also shown deep trust in his large group

that was exactly what the God

Shang remembered

Record, the

God's descriptions of how Mana worked were almost identical to

referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been

had entertained the thought that

had become a God in the

had believed that Lucius was dead, he hadn't

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

was not the

sounds familiar,I Shang

the words he had said after leaving Area

"My name is Shang."

am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

there was still

was an actual

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

old one, it would

looked at the

happened after Lucius became a

when Lucius had become a

have been nothing that could

to get rid of the

of getting rid

Lucius must

absorbed had returned to

then, what is the

had returned,

'Entropy?'

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

were eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

least one Lucius is

Lucius can't be fully made

Lucius has no or nearly no Mana in his

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily

turned him into