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

was exactly what the

Shang remembered another

Record,

worked were almost identical to how the

Paths that had either existed when Lucius had been

the thought that the Archivist might

Lucius had become

was dead, he

It made no sense.

yet, it

Lucius was the God.

God was not the Lucius

sounds familiar,I

the words he had said after leaving

"My name is Shang."

I am

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was

was an actual corpse of

at his true body. 'My current body also can't compare

one, it would be like there

looked at the silver

monumental must have happened after

when Lucius had become a God, there had been

have been nothing that could have stopped Lucius from fulfilling

get rid of the

instead of getting rid of them,

one Lucius must have

Abominations had become weak again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there

then, what is

of the world had

'Entropy?'

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

were eleven, including the

'The God is Lucius.'

one

can't be fully made

has no or nearly no

to easily kill powerful Peak

turned him into the mad