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 group of

exactly what the

Shang remembered

Watcher's Record,

of how Mana worked were almost identical to how the Archivist had

had either existed when Lucius had been

thought that the

Lucius had become a God

Shang had believed that Lucius was dead, he

It made no sense.

it was

Lucius was the God.

not

sounds

he had said after

"My name is Shang."

I am not

Shang, but not Shang.

Lucius, but not Lucius.

were similarities, but there was still an

was an actual corpse

his true body. 'My current

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

Shang looked

happened after

had become a God,

have been nothing that could have stopped

wanted to get

of getting rid of

Lucius must have

Abominations had become weak again, and all the Mana Lucius had absorbed had returned to the world. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any Emperors

then, what

world had returned, what

'Entropy?'

at least 30% Mana to retain his human mind, which means that there could only be

there were eleven,

'The God is Lucius.'

one Lucius

can't be

Lucius has no or nearly no Mana

easily kill powerful Peak Mage Kings and

that turned him into the mad