[{"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-766":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},1492601,1940,"Chapter 766  766 Using Death Mana","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-766",766,"\u003Cp>The dead hill in front of the mansions in the Hibye was surrounded by a huge purple Isolation Barrier yet again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior had remained somewhat sane for only ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, that portal appeared, and when the guy came back, everything changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, that guy just stood on that hill for a couple of minutes, not moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, he began to age rapidly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was turning into an old man in seconds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All his hair fell out, his muscles vanished, his skin began to sack, and disgusting brown and grey spots appeared all over his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he just fell over like a dead man!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bolts immediately contacted him. After all, Clouds weren't supposed to just die like this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what did he answer?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everything's okay. Just ignore me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hell it was!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That guy was aging rapidly and dying right in front of them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was that okay?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lucin saw that, he immediately took out his Communication Crystal and contacted Queen Primordium, who quickly informed him about everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Queen Primordium hung up, Lucin just looked at his Communication Crystal with furrowed brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn't they have tried to keep this secret?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already had needed to come up with a lie for the portal, and now he needed to find a believable lie for why Shang was just fucking dying right there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucin immediately decided to summon another Isolation Barrier around Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, the Bolts were interested once more about what was going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cloud Shang is working right now,\" Lucin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Working?\" one of the Bolts asked in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, they are testing the resilience and life energy of warriors. From what I've just heard, they gave him a couple of Spells and pills that he is supposed to use and ingest on himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Naturally, the effects are quite pronounced, but he shouldn't be in danger as long as he keeps to the instructions,\" Lucin explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, that makes sense,\" one of the Bolts exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others also agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warriors had far more powerful bodies, which meant that their resilience was also far higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the Bolts even became a bit envious. After all, such a job had to pay very well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lucin managed to convince the Bolts that everything was okay, he released a covert sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Shang appeared, his job had become stranger and more stressful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Isolation Barrier, a half-dead husk was lying on the hill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was difficult to tell if Shang was alive or dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like he was in limbo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or purgatory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, even though Shang's current state was essentially identical to the state he had been in ten years ago, he wasn't in even nearly enough danger as back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was that Shang could just stop producing Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even more, he could actually make use of that Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After having been a half-dead husk for just three minutes, Shang decided to try something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, his entire body regenerated fully as all the Death Mana vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had pulled all the Death Mana into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I want to die,' Shang thought. 'I just don't want to live anymore.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, he trusted in his previous thought and simply did what he wanted to do.please visit\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he still wanted to die after that, he could still do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang pointed his hand forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, some grey smoke came out of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's mind recovered, and he realized that he had just wanted to die, which was essentially a first for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Okay, that was too much Death Mana,' Shang thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some seconds later, Shang started to rapidly age again, and he collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple more seconds later, Shang's body recovered again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Shang didn't gather as much Death Mana in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Shang still felt apathetic toward his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't really care if he lived or died right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, he had more motivation in this state than in his earlier one, and he even managed to release a half-hearted slash with his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black crescent with a bit of grey in it shot out of his sword, hitting the Isolation Barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crescent exploded into Darkness Mana and a bit of Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of the Isolation Barrier made the Darkness Mana essentially useless, and it was used up in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the Death Mana remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stuck to the Isolation Barrier and started to consume the Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Lucin was extremely powerful, which meant that Shang's attack still didn't do anything noteworthy to the Isolation Barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it also didn't manage to get rid of the Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Death Mana just remained, and it continued consuming the Mana of the Isolation Barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Shang saw that, he realized the potential of Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natural Death Mana only consumed life energy, but by using the level one Concept of Death, Sickness, Shang managed to slightly alter the properties of Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of doing nothing to Lucin's barrier, the Death Mana clung to it and consumed it slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a parasite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several possibilities of how to make use of this power shot through Shang's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was only the level one Concept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about Weakness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about Purgatory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, Shang had just used his basic ranged attack with a bit of Death Mana. This couldn't even be called an actual technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By actually creating a real technique, the power of the Death Mana would increase severalfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that would take time, as always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Shang aged again and collapsed in a half-dead husk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dealing with all the Bolts, Lucin just looked into his Isolation Barrier and watched Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he could do was shake his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was everything involving Shang always related to suffering, torture, death, and depression?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn't that guy just be normal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn't he just train like a normal warrior or Mage?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like, do some pushups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe swing his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe meditate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucin could only sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>",1018,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.285Z",1,"novelbin.me","c0d7406f36c5adefa4d795c5380e7559c1e3df3e1ee2030011d7c6fdf98288b2","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-767","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-765",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]