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

all up to

then, the wheel

his next

image depicted a pig-like man with a lot of needles coming down his back. He was wearing sunglasses and looked

moment later,

took a deep

a brown porcupine with an obvious

meters high, and its needles

was meaty

guess that's it,' Shang

winning against

lifted his hammer and struck the

the

Shang didn't move.

even take out his

curiosity, the porcupine snorted and ran towards

definitely didn't

parts of the earth with every step, and it was like a wall of

came within ten meters of Shang,

from its gigantic teeth, and it opened its

around equal to the

top of that, it had a terrifying defense,

be surprised if it could even use its

he be able to do against a

Shang sighed.

or a bird, I could have won,'

guess that's it for the beast category of the

will only get

left arm at the

mouth was close to swallowing

woke the hidden power inside

instant, Shang's

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

blood lost a lot of its

top of that, Shang's left arm turned into black

gigantic hole appeared in the porcupine's

a meter wide, and it stretched from its

of his own world through the hole in

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

a storm of pure, Neutral Mana came from the porcupine's body, and Shang felt

The porcupine stopped.

then, it

Dead.

over and used Darkness Absorb on the porcupine's

energy left the corpse and

had been empty of life energy, and after absorbing so much of it, it had fully regenerated

his left

left arm was

looked at his

feel any