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.

thanks to the thousands of Adepts Shang had

Yes, thousands.

fought Mages for a

one also had to remember that

several thousand Adepts in the last

many Mages had the

Definitely fewer than that.

Mages once per week, and they would, at most, get to fight twice

same number of Mages as Shang,

pull off. After all, the arrow

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

incredibly talented warriors, which also meant that she had the power to fight an average Early Adept, an opponent Shang

Shang thought, 'being able to fight someone

the next arrow

She released her arrow.

towards the left side of

How did Shang react?

jumped to

was pointing to the right of Shang's

And then…

It missed!

Shang's right,

narrowed even further as she

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

at the left side of Shang's chest. If someone attacked a normal person's left

Shang had jumped to the right, the arrow would have hit him

were only twenty meters between the two of

rods in her hand, and all three of them were transformed

create three arrows instead of one, it

only five

arrow

let go of the

Shang jumped upward.

the arrow didn't

had caught the arrow before it could leave the bow, and she had put a second arrow on top of

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

the arrows and pointed his left hand at the

let go

BANG!

arrows. One of the arrows had been straight, while another one had ridges that would make it curve to the ground

arrow

CRK!