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

up

the

saw his

with a lot of needles coming down

later, Shang's opponent

a

a brown porcupine with an obvious Affinity for

and its needles looked like they

head was meaty and

guess that's it,' Shang

winning against that

his hammer

noticed the distant Shang and

Shang didn't move.

take out his

curiosity, the porcupine snorted and ran

didn't like

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

within ten meters of

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

around equal

had a terrifying defense, and it definitely wasn't

it could even use its needles as a ranged attack if

already had trouble evading the dog's attack. What would he be able to do against a wave of

Shang sighed.

like a cheetah or a bird, I

guess that's it for

like I will

left arm at the porcupine's

mouth was close to

woke the

Shang's body

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

lost a

turned into black

a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in the porcupine's

was a meter wide, and it stretched from its head all the way to

easily see the horizon of his own world through

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 was bathed in pure

The porcupine stopped.

then, it fell

Dead.

slowly walked over and used Darkness Absorb on the porcupine's

of life energy left the corpse and entered Shang's

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

his

left arm

at his empty

don't feel any