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

up to

then, the wheel

his

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

later,

a

porcupine with an obvious Affinity for

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

was meaty

that's

I'm winning against

hammer

porcupine noticed the distant Shang and

Shang didn't move.

didn't even take out his

porcupine snorted and ran

definitely didn't like

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

ten meters of Shang, it

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

around equal

of that, it had a terrifying defense, and it

its needles

What would he be able to do against a wave of needles that shot at him with even more

Shang sighed.

cheetah or a bird,

it for the beast category of

I will only

left arm at the porcupine's

close to swallowing

woke the hidden power inside

instant, Shang's body

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

blood lost a lot

of that, Shang's left arm turned into black

without a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in the

and it stretched from its head

own world through the hole in

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

later, a storm of pure, Neutral Mana came from the porcupine's body, and Shang felt like his body was bathed in pure

The porcupine stopped.

then, it fell

Dead.

and used Darkness Absorb on

life energy left the corpse and entered Shang's

after absorbing so much of it, it had

for his

arm

at his empty left

feel