Sword God in a World of Magic

After a short beam of light, Shang's opponent appeared.

It was a young woman in her twenties. She had long purple hair, and she wore a set of thin, black armor. On her back was an elaborately designed longbow.

'The bow and her armor don't feel simple,' Shang thought. 'Her armor can probably protect her from a lethal strike, and her bow is probably augmented with Magic Circles. It's very possible that the speed of her attacks rivals the speed of an Early Adept's Spells.'

The jester lifted his hammer and struck the bell.

At that moment, the woman opened her eyes, and she looked at Shang with a cold expression.

A moment later, she took out her bow.

BANG!

Shang charged forward, destroying the ground beneath him as he ran with all his speed. Just like when he fought the Adepts, distance was all that mattered in this fight.

The woman pulled out a long piece of iron. It wasn't an arrow, surprisingly. It was just a long piece of iron.

She pulled the piece of iron back on her bow and pointed at Shang.

A moment later, something purple materialized on the end of the piece of metal, and it quickly assumed the shape of an arrowhead.

At the same time, some ridges appeared at the other end of the stick of metal.

'I see,' Shang thought as he realized why there were no prebuilt ridges on the metal rods.

If Shang hadn't had so much combat experience, he would have never even thought about this aspect.

Just when Shang took a step, she released her arrow.

Since Shang had just taken a step, it meant that he wasn't ready to immediately step to the side.

Her timing had been perfect.

Shang's foot awkwardly hit the ground and slightly changed his balance.

SHING!

The arrow barely missed Shang's torso.

The woman's eyes narrowed as she took out the next piece of metal.

She had not expected Shang to dodge her arrow like that. Her timing had been perfect.

Shang's equilibrium became a bit awkward due to the sudden step he had needed to take, but he quickly managed to fix it before his opponent could shoot another arrow.

arrow only existed thanks to the thousands

Yes, thousands.

say that Shang had only fought Mages for a month, and that wasn't nearly enough time to become proficient

that Shang had been fighting them without

several thousand

had the red uniforms

Definitely fewer than that.

only fought Mages once per week, and they would, at

the same number of Mages as Shang, they would need to spend years like

of fighting so many Adepts, and it definitely wasn't easy to pull off. After all, the arrow had been about as fast as the Spell

could fight average Mages on their level. An incredibly talented Early General Stage warrior

these incredibly talented warriors, which also meant that she had the

to fight someone and winning against someone are two different

the next arrow

She released her arrow.

arrow shot towards the left side

How did Shang react?

jumped to the

right of Shang's chest since he had already jumped into

And then…

It missed!

Shang's right, missing him in the

narrowed even further as

ridges on the arrow's back had been slightly curved, which meant that

was also why she had shot at the left side of Shang's chest. If someone attacked a normal person's left chest, the target would quickly evade to the other side. After all, evading into the attack

had jumped to the right, the arrow would have hit him in the middle of the

were only twenty meters between the two

had three metal rods in her hand, and all three

had to create three arrows instead of one, it

Shang was only five meters

arrow pointed at

let go of the

Shang jumped upward.

arrow

leave the bow, and she had put a second arrow on top of

back and pointed her two arrows at Shang, who was currently in the

the ridges in the arrows and pointed his

let go of

BANG!

had been straight, while another one had ridges that would make it curve to the ground in

first arrow missed

CRK!