Sword God in a World of Magic

"This one was close," Shang said to Sword.

"But we won," Sword answered.

"We did, but only because it panicked. If it had any sort of combat experience, it would have focused on getting rid of me instead of continuously healing. We only won because I managed to take advantage of its inexperience," Shang said.

"But we won," Sword said.

Silence.

"Yes, we won," Shang said with a sigh.

Shang looked at the vanishing corpse. "Dogs aren't famed for their defensive capabilities, but it was still incredibly hard to break its defenses. The physical bodies of beasts truly can't be underestimated."

Shang noticed that a leaflet had appeared, and he looked through it.

"Companion," Shang read.

That was the name of the dog's species.

Shang sighed once again.

He didn't regret killing it. After all, it was necessary.

But it still left a bitter taste in his mouth.

"Apparently, they are being bred in the Skythunder Kingdom's capital," Shang said to Sword. "They mainly work for the King's army."

The kingdom's capital was north of Duke Mithril's territories. Duke Whirlwind was the ruler over the southernmost Zones, and Duke Mithril was responsible for the central-southern territories. There were several more Dukes that dealt with the other directions for a total of twelve Dukes.

One at the outer parts of each cardinal direction.

One at the inner parts of each cardinal direction.

And one for each of the corners.

Since the corners weren't that wide, the Dukes responsible for the corners ruled over the outer and inner parts, making their territories resemble a line or a triangle more than a square or a circle.

Then, Shang saw the God's quote.

"Who would want to punch a puppy? A monster!"

Shang took a deep breath and threw the leaflet to the side.

At that point, the wheel returned.

"Level eight: Average Middle General Stage beast."

The wheel began to spin, and Shang looked at it with an intense expression.

'I only won because my opponent was inexperienced. This won't happen with the next one.'

Shang watched the wheel spin.

'The only way I can win against the next one is if I perfectly counter it.'

The wheel slowed down.

'Preferably, I need something with a weak defense.'

wheel was close to

up to luck

then, the wheel

saw his next

lot of needles coming down

moment later, Shang's

a deep

with an obvious Affinity

five meters high, and its needles looked like they were made of

head was

guess that's it,'

way I'm winning against that

jester lifted his hammer and

porcupine noticed the distant Shang and

Shang didn't move.

didn't even take

porcupine snorted and ran towards

didn't like

the earth with every step, and it was like a

came within ten meters of Shang, it opened

its gigantic teeth, and it opened its mouth, which was as big as Shang's

was around equal

that, it had a terrifying defense, and it definitely

if it could even use its needles as a ranged attack if it felt

would he be able to do against a

Shang sighed.

or a bird, I could have won,' he

for

I will only get

left arm at the porcupine's

mouth was close to swallowing

woke the hidden

instant, Shang's body

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

lost a

that, Shang's left arm turned into black dust, which scattered

without a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in

it stretched

of his own world

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

of pure, Neutral Mana came from the porcupine's body, and Shang felt like his body

The porcupine stopped.

then, it

Dead.

used Darkness Absorb on the

lot of life energy left the corpse and

of life energy, and after absorbing so much of it,

for his left

arm

his empty

don't feel any