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 his large group

that was exactly what

remembered

Watcher's Record, the Archivist's

descriptions of how Mana worked were almost identical to

either existed when Lucius had been alive

entertained the thought that the Archivist might be older than

one but Lucius had become a God in

he hadn't entertained

It made no sense.

it

Lucius was the God.

not the Lucius everybody

that sounds familiar,I Shang

words he

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was

an actual

actually looked at his true body. 'My current

old one, it would be like there

Shang looked

have happened

God is Lucius, when Lucius had become a God, there had

nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling his

to get rid of the

instead of getting rid of them,

Lucius

all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any Emperors except for the

what is the

all the Mana of the world had returned, what is the

'Entropy?'

least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which

there were eleven, including

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius

Lucius can't be fully made

has no or nearly

Lucius is still powerful enough to easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and

that turned