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.

trust

exactly what the

remembered

Record,

Mana worked were almost identical to how

God had only referenced Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been alive or had

Shang had entertained the thought that the Archivist might be

no one but Lucius had become

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

It made no sense.

yet, it

Lucius was the God.

not the

sounds

the words he

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

but there was still

was an actual corpse of

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

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

next moment, Shang looked at the silver

happened after Lucius became a

the God is Lucius, when Lucius had become

could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling

wanted to get rid

of getting rid of them,

Lucius

had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise,

then, what is the

all the Mana of the world had returned, what

'Entropy?'

human mind, which means that there could only be like seven or eight

were eleven, including

'The God is Lucius.'

least one Lucius

living Lucius can't be fully

no or nearly no Mana in his

living Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful Peak

must have happened that turned him into