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

up

the wheel

saw his next

lot of needles coming down his back. He was wearing sunglasses and looked like

moment later,

a deep

was a brown porcupine with an obvious

high, and its

head was meaty

that's it,' Shang

winning against that

hammer and struck

noticed the

Shang didn't move.

take out

curiosity, the porcupine snorted and

didn't like

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

it came within ten meters of Shang,

from its gigantic teeth, and it opened its mouth,

around equal to the

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

use its needles as a ranged attack if it felt

trouble evading the dog's attack. What would he be able to

Shang sighed.

a cheetah or a bird, I

that's it for the beast

I will only get

his left arm at the porcupine's

was close to

the

Shang's body began

His skin shriveled up.

His muscles shrank.

His bones became weak.

His organs became weak.

a

arm turned into

without a sound, a gigantic hole appeared in the porcupine's

and it stretched from its head all the

of his own world through the hole in the

There was no explosion.

There was no sound.

It just happened.

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

The porcupine stopped.

then, it

Dead.

over and used

life energy left the corpse and entered

energy, and after absorbing

his

left arm

his

feel