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 of Adepts

Yes, thousands.

one hand, one could say that Shang had only fought Mages for a month,

also had to remember that Shang had been fighting them without

literally fought several thousand Adepts in

Mages had the

Definitely fewer than that.

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

number of Mages as Shang, they would need to

fighting so many Adepts, and it definitely wasn't easy to pull off.

on their

that she had the

fight someone and winning against someone are two different

arrow was ready,

She released her arrow.

shot towards the left side of Shang's

How did Shang react?

to

of Shang's chest since he had already jumped into

And then…

It missed!

right, missing him

eyes narrowed even further as she

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

side of Shang's chest. If someone attacked a normal person's left chest, the target would quickly evade to

jumped to the right, the arrow would have hit him in

there were only twenty meters between

opponent now had three metal rods in her hand, and all three of

arrows instead

now, Shang was only five meters away

next arrow

go

Shang jumped upward.

arrow

bow, and she

her two arrows at Shang, who was currently in the air, unable

the arrows and pointed his left

go of her

BANG!

Ice Blast to shoot himself over the approaching arrows. One of the arrows had been straight, while another one had ridges that would make it curve

arrow missed

CRK!