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 large

that was exactly what the

Shang remembered another

Record, the

almost identical to how the Archivist had described

that had either existed when Lucius had been alive

Shang had entertained the thought that the Archivist might

had become a God in

since Shang had believed that Lucius was dead, he hadn't entertained the thought that the God was actually

It made no sense.

yet, it was

Lucius was the God.

the God was not

sounds

he had said after leaving Area

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

similarities, but there was

actual corpse

he actually looked at his true body.

old one, it would be like

looked at the silver

have happened

Lucius, when Lucius had

that could have stopped

get rid

of getting rid of them, something

one Lucius must have

had returned to

what is

Mana of the world had returned, what is the

'Entropy?'

still need at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which means that there

eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

least one Lucius is

Lucius can't be fully made of

has no or nearly no Mana in his

enough to easily kill powerful

turned him into the mad