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.'

was close to

up

then, the wheel

his next

depicted a pig-like man with a lot of needles coming down

moment later, Shang's

took a

a brown porcupine with an obvious Affinity

meters high, and its needles looked like they

was meaty and

that's it,'

winning against that

jester lifted his hammer and struck the

porcupine noticed the distant Shang

Shang didn't move.

take out his

the porcupine snorted and ran towards

definitely didn't

body of the porcupine destroyed parts of the earth with every step,

it came within ten meters of Shang, it opened its

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

speed was around equal to the

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

even use its needles as a

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

Shang sighed.

cheetah or a bird, I could have

it for the beast category of

I will only get eight

pointed his left arm

was close to

Shang woke the hidden power inside

Shang's body began to

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

blood lost a lot of

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

gigantic

and it stretched from its head all the

see the horizon of his own

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

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

The porcupine stopped.

it fell

Dead.

used Darkness

life energy left the

energy, and after absorbing so much

his left

left arm was

his

don't feel any