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

up to

the

saw his next

with a lot of needles coming down his back. He was wearing sunglasses and

later, Shang's opponent

a

was a brown porcupine with an obvious Affinity for

over five meters high, and its needles looked like

head was meaty

guess that's it,' Shang

way I'm winning

lifted his hammer

the distant Shang

Shang didn't move.

take out

porcupine snorted

definitely didn't like

earth with every step, and it was like a

it came within ten meters of Shang, it opened its

its mouth, which was as big as Shang's entire

speed was around equal

of that, it had a terrifying defense, and it definitely wasn't

its needles

able to do against a wave of needles that shot at him with even

Shang sighed.

a cheetah or a bird, I

for the beast

will only get eight

pointed his left arm at the porcupine's

was close to

Shang woke the hidden power inside

instant, Shang's body began

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

a lot of

top of that, Shang's left arm turned

without a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in the porcupine's

stretched from its head all the way to its

see the horizon of his own world through the hole

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

of pure, Neutral Mana came from the porcupine's body, and

The porcupine stopped.

then, it

Dead.

over and used Darkness Absorb on the porcupine's

energy left the corpse and entered Shang's

been empty of life energy, and after

for his

arm

his empty left

don't feel any