[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-550":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492485,1940,"Chapter 550 - Goodbye","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-550",550,"\u003Cp>Nothing happened while Shang was flying southward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun shone brightly in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People were doing their daily chores and meeting with friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warriors were hunting in the wildernesses in teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a busy day like any other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In comparison to 75 years ago, the current Storm Kingdom was much better off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People didn't seem nearly as worried, and they had already returned to their previous selves before the Council had started to suppress the warriors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Kingdom had transformed into how it had been when Shang had just arrived in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Innovation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prosperity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the perfect words to describe the current Storm Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jerald had done an amazing job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang flew across the Thunder Horse Zone and looked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see the Thunder Horse walking around inside one of the cities, several children playing with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang remembered how Jerald had given his best to shield Shang from the Thunder Horse's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, Shang left the Thunder Horse Zone and entered the Adamantite Behemoth Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw a new city about ten kilometers away from the Adamantite Behemoth's horn, further away than the previous one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang remembered how he had destroyed the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Jerald had told Shang that he was sorry. Jerald said that he was responsible for the deaths of all of these people and that Shang shouldn't blame himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some time, Shang reached the Empress Cobra Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>George had died to the Council here, and Shang also remembered his conversation with Jerald while traveling to King Skythunder for the first time. A big part of the conversation had taken place here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time during his journey, Shang stopped in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he flew toward the west, toward the Ice Wyvern Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang passed by the three-way border and entered the Ice Wyvern Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the city where he had exchanged the ice wood, Blizzard's Edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the Southern Wild, where the guard had warned Shang of the bandits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the Central Wild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang also saw the Northern Wild, the place where he had nearly crashed with his sled wagon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the place where the village with the ice wood had once been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no village here anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And lastly, Shang saw Jerald's garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth Fruit Hedgehog was gone, but everything else seemed to be the same as back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the boars, the wolves, the Pest Cats, and several other beasts and animals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Shang had gone through tremendous physical pain in an effort to become more powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He preferred the physical pain over the emotional one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang turned his expressionless face towards one part of the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was where he had met Jerald.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had been careful of him, and he had looked up to his power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was where it all began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one would have expected that the little boy Jerald had found in one of his gardens would grow up to become his best friend and then his killer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Shang summoned something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the emblem Jerald had given him when he had received the mission to find Duke Mithril's men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, Shang flew towards the southeast again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He passed over the border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He passed over the Farm Line, where he saw a couple of the Farm Dogs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the Wild Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered the Storm Eagle's offspring, the General Stage Vanishing Snake, and Chuck McGuiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's youth had been painful, but it had also been filled with many people and exciting encounters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the Wasteland and remembered accompanying Sarah, Astor, and Elver in the Caves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered Soran coming to help Shang and putting the three of them under a Magic Contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, Shang reached Warrior's Paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered all the teachers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loran, the old man that guarded the gate during the night and taught the Caterpillar Class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teacher Niria, the teacher that taught about beasts and who had helped Shang with the Darkness Ore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vice-Dean Soran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viera.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vice-Dean Ranos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>George…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these people were dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teacher Mervin…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang remembered the conversation he had had with Teacher Loran and Teacher Mervin during his second Day of Chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shang, power might be your primary goal, but you can't forget about a time after.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what should I do, in your opinion?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get a team. Join a team of hunters. Take part in group missions. Try not to deny an invitation if an acquaintance gives you one. Just one thing, essentially. Be more amongst people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the end, it's all up to you. It's your decision. I only suggest that you try it, and I won't force you. Even if you decide to ignore everything I said today, our relationship won't change. You are one of my students. I am one of your teachers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang still remembered the conversation clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's future had not been set in stone back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had all the options available to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a while, Shang only looked at the Warrior Academy in Warrior's Paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had been his home for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Shang continued flying toward the south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the Canyon and remembered the gigantic Exploding Mountain Turtle that had threatened the city back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang flew higher into the sky to avoid the Spirit Senses and reach of the powerful beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang saw the Crater, the place where all the True Path Stage beasts resided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Crater continued expanding for a while, and Shang even started to see humongous and terrifying beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Archbeasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang avoided looking at them closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beasts didn't pay any attention to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, there were no more beasts for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that's when the humongous Storm Eagle entered Shang's Spirit Sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Storm Eagle was lying on the ground, terrifying amounts of Wind Mana coming out of its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was truly gigantic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after all this time, the Storm Eagle was still impossibly imposing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang flew past the humongous Storm Eagle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And two minutes later, Shang reached it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of Shang was only a bottomless cliff, and everything in front of him was covered in clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like the world had ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Shang stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned towards the north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Storm Eagle Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Skythunder Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Area 23.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered the life he had lived there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Area 23 had undergone tremendous changes, and Shang was responsible for many of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang remembered everything he had grown attached to in Area 23.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it had either disappeared, died, or changed tremendously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang hung onto the memories he had made in Area 23.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the first time in a long while, he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do not regret my decisions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I only regret not realizing the truth of my path sooner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang turned towards the Abyss again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am the enemy of the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no one in my life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have abandoned everything just so I may gain a shot at Godhood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And power needs sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goodbye, everyone that still knows me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My name is Shang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I am not Shang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, Shang jumped into the Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left Area 23 and entered the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>",1220,"2026-06-06T04:07:15.357Z",1,"novelbin.me","b4f14e54b6c98afac0bc566ed2a5f494deedb0ec8d1d3a33cc4332618a0babb1","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-701","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-549",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]