[{"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-891":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},1492959,1940,"Chapter 891  891 – Transformation","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-891",891,"\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a couple of years, quite a big chunk of Shang's stump had already vanished into nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a strange feeling to lose a part of oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't even hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a technical sense, Shang never received an injury while he was doing this since he had always been in his peak condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, experiencing something like this elicited a certain feeling of approaching doom in someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A normal human could see this like their arm slowly necrosing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every passing second, death would come closer to one's core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shang just continued and kept watching the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the long time he had watched the Abominations before, he had already made many connections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even just the name of the Concept had already helped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one thing turning into another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Shang's normal Domain of Entropy, he was turning Elemental Mana into Neutral Mana, but he also had to use his body as fuel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Abominations could just turn every kind of Mana into nothing without paying a price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost like they were using the Mana around them as fuel to destroy the Mana around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, something like this was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang knew that his abilities were superior to Lucius' abilities while they had been on similar levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius hadn't had access to the Domain of Entropy until the Peak Ancestral Mage Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lucius had comprehended the Concept of Transformation, he gained a Domain that would turn all kinds of Mana into Neutral Mana without paying a price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would Shang get?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already had quite a good guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Shang had been comprehending the Concept of Transformation for 50 years, and his stump had already nearly reached his elbow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shang just continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another 50 years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Shang's entire elbow was already gone, and he only had about 75% of his upper arm left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the flip side, Shang had already made sense of most of the Concept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the Concept actually seemed understandable and clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, the several centuries of watching Abominations before this had not been in vain since Shang noticed that a lot of his guesses had proven to be true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His progress was faster than expected, and that was thanks to the many centuries of watching the Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, 30 years later, he finally did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black smoke stopped coming out of Shang's shoulder, and the life energy inside the crystals stopped being consumed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang took a deep breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius' image had expected that Shang would take about 200 years to comprehend the Concept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shang had actually only needed 130 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't that Lucius had underestimated Shang's talent but that Shang had already spent several centuries watching Abominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without that, Shang would have probably needed to sacrifice a chunk of his torso for the remaining 70 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, he only needed to sacrifice his left arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As of this moment, Shang's entire left arm was gone, just like his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had been a brutal payment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang stood up for the first time in a long while and directly noticed that his balance was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing a blank space where his left arm was supposed to be felt unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang felt like his arm was still there, and he willed it to touch his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But nothing happened, and nothing moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was such a strange and alien feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Shang looked at his Subsis, which was lying on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang willed his left arm to pick it up, but nothing happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had always fought with his Addum in his right hand and his Subsis in his left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't swing both of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the new techniques he had created relied on two swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Shang only had one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fighting style had been crippled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do you feel?\" Lucius' image asked. There was a small inkling of empathy and pity in his voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't look at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn't matter,\" Shang said evenly. \"I have chosen my Path, and all these sacrifices push me closer to its fulfillment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Using two swords had been a temporary solution anyway.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ever since I created my four Paths, I had already aimed at one day combining all of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First, there were four weapons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then, there were two.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now, there will be one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I might not be able to realize the full potential of my fighting style, but the other option was death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I made the correct choice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I would do it again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius' image turned blurrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope you can fulfill your dream,\" Lucius said as he vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My dream,\" Shang said in a voice that betrayed a feeling of disgust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hated the word dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dream implied something great, happy, and fulfilling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang wasn't sure if his goal fit with either of these three words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Path he had decided to travel down, and he wouldn't stop until the very end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Path was for his existence, and his existence was for his Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing else mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A portal opened beside Shang, but he didn't walk through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was something else he wanted to do first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang took a deep breath and focused on the level five Concept of Transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, something seemed to break as an apocalyptic storm of Mana shot at Shang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the portal closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over six million kilometers to the north of Aterium, a humongous storm of Mana appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whirlpools thousands of kilometers wide formed above a seemingly random point in the Eternal Ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Millions of beasts died to the natural forces, turning into corpses, which then turned into Mana that flowed down into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And things didn't seem to calm down at all after that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storms became bigger and more intense, and after a couple of seconds, the surrounding 100,000 kilometers turned into a world of destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Mana in the surroundings got pulled into the ground, and even the Beast Lords fled in panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the Beast Lords had ever seen such a gigantic storm of destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, about 30 seconds later, things calmed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water evened out, and the wind stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many kilometers below the seafloor, Shang's mind returned to the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had consumed his momentum, but compared to last time, he did it on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>",1081,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.884Z",1,"novelbin.me","ad56f771eb50e5d7725fc471a2819d890ef7214cd924942b009d05f11ff2d1c0","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-892","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-890",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]