[{"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-775":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},1492610,1940,"Chapter 775  775 Infection","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-775",775,"\u003Cp>The Space Ring fell out of the portal, and Shang inspected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Not bad,' he thought. 'This guy probably has nearly a hundred Grade Seven Mana Crystals. With everything else I've gotten, I should have earned more than 200 Grade Seven Mana Crystals.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than half an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was how long Shang had taken to earn more than 200 Grade Seven Mana Crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang pocketed the Space Ring and planned his next move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Bolt was looking at Shang with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still couldn't fully accept what he had just witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Near the top of the greater Magic Circle encompassing the wilderness, a Mid Ancestral Mage Cloud had been calmly waiting and recovering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he had been attacked by Shang, he went deeper into the Eternal Ocean and searched for something valuable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, the intense pressure and gravity had been far stronger than the Mage had anticipated, and he needed to go to shallower waters to recover some of his Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't expected that the intense pressure would use up that much of his Mana, but that also didn't matter that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After resurfacing for a while, he was planning to return to the bottom of the Eternal Ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, he exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A humongous black sphere suddenly consumed him and the surrounding kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surroundings had been filled with insanely dense Darkness Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took a while for the dense Water Mana from the outside to wash the Darkness Mana away, but when it did, the Cloud had been revealed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had transformed into a husk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like a corpse that had been dead for months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, this was the doing of one or two of Shang's new techniques, depending on how one defined a technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Shang had absorbed the Water Mana around him with his Void Break, he had immediately shoved it into his Subsis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's Subsis couldn't hold Water Mana, but it could still guide it due to its shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense Water Mana was pushed out of Shang's Subsis at its tip, creating a fast and dense beam of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, it had to get through something first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A layer of Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had coated the tip of his Subsis with his stored Death Mana, and when the Water Mana shot through it, it pulled the Death Mana along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Death Mana wouldn't easily move like that, but this was why this was a technique. By manipulating a couple of Concepts and the Mana, Shang could infuse some of his attacks with Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People that weren't familiar with Death Mana wouldn't be able to see it, making Shang's attack seem weak and irrelevant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the water beam hit the Mage, it scattered Death Mana across his entire Mana Shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had used the Concept of Sickness with the Death Mana, which meant that it clung to the Mana Shield and absorbed Mana continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Initial Ancestral Mage would notice the drain immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Early Ancestral Mage might notice the drain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, a Mid Ancestral Mage had too much Mana to notice the drain immediately. It would take some time for them to notice it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was one of the effects of this technique, with another effect being a marker for Shang to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang could feel the Death Mana, and he could essentially follow its trail like a dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang called this attack Infection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could the opponent do to get rid of Infection?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was very easy but also very risky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just dismiss the Mana Shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Mana Shield was dismissed, the Mage only needed to take a step to the side and resummon it. Like this, the Death Mana wouldn't affect them anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, activating Mana Shield wasn't instantaneous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cast for Mana Shield was a bit longer than for Mana Step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with the power of a Mage's body, any attack Shang would launch at them would end their life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even just the pressure of Shang swinging his sword in the general direction of the Mage might turn them to dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Shang also had created some techniques that were extremely weak but also extremely fast for exactly that purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either dismiss your Mana Shield and risk dying or keep getting drained by Death Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, what the opponent didn't know was that the more Mana the Death Mana absorbed, the more powerful it became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By using the Concept of Purgatory, Shang could keep the Mana \"alive\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Mana eaten by the Death Mana would be transformed into Darkness Mana and stored inside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Shang could detonate this Mana whenever he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, if the Death Mana didn't absorb a lot, the power of the explosion would be negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to completely kill a Mid Ancestral Mage with their Mana Shield, it would need to absorb Mana for around a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A minute in a battle between Shang and a Mage was an unreasonably long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when they were not directly in a battle, this technique was deadly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the attack that had killed the Mid Ancestral Mage Cloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was an extension of Infection and a sort of culmination of it, Shang decided to call it Sepsis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you actually get Sepsis, there's a good chance that you won't survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weak and pathetic beam of water that had touched the Mage's Mana Shield for just an instant had been the reason for his death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bolt had no idea how Shang had accomplished that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, several things about Shang shocked and confused the Bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How had he destroyed such a powerful barrier?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How had he killed someone a level above him from so far away?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bolt knew that the Clouds had mystical powers, but Shang's powers were the most mystical of them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just seemed to defy common sense, making the impossible possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, the Bolt felt like this Wilderness Hunt wouldn't be a normal one.\u003C\u002Fp>",1005,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.285Z",1,"novelbin.me","06f934b6e0133cf1a7b956c7efb9afa29e82494f4fb9041a4161e7c61e651d93","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-776","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-774",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]