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 to luck

the wheel

saw his

coming down his back. He was wearing sunglasses and looked like an intimidating

moment later, Shang's

a

brown porcupine with

high, and its

was

that's

winning against

jester lifted his hammer and struck

noticed the distant

Shang didn't move.

take out

curiosity, the porcupine snorted and ran towards

definitely didn't

earth with every step, and it

meters of Shang,

dropped from its gigantic teeth, and it opened its mouth, which was as big as Shang's entire

speed was around equal to the dog's

it had a terrifying

could even use its needles as a ranged attack if it

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

Shang sighed.

something like a cheetah or a bird, I could have won,' he

it for the beast category

like I will

his left arm at

mouth was close to swallowing

woke the hidden

instant, Shang's

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

a lot of

left arm turned

without a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in the

wide, and it stretched from its head all

of his own

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

the porcupine's

The porcupine stopped.

then, it fell

Dead.

used Darkness Absorb on

lot of life energy left the

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

his

arm

his

don't feel