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.

to dodge that arrow only existed thanks to the thousands of

Yes, thousands.

fought Mages for a month, and that wasn't

one also had to remember that Shang had been fighting them without

thousand Adepts in the

had the red uniforms

Definitely fewer than that.

red uniforms only fought Mages once per week, and they would, at most,

Mages as Shang, they would need to spend years like

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

that incredibly talented warriors could fight average Mages on their level. An incredibly

talented warriors, which also meant that she had the power to fight an average Early Adept, an opponent Shang hadn't managed to

'being able to fight someone and winning against someone are two different

next arrow was ready, and Shang's

She released her arrow.

side

How did Shang react?

jumped to the

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

And then…

It missed!

curved towards Shang's right, missing

narrowed even further as

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

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

the arrow would have hit him in the middle

now, there were only twenty meters between

metal rods in her hand,

had to create three arrows instead of one, it took her more

only five meters

arrow pointed at

let go

Shang jumped upward.

the arrow didn't

and she had

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

ridges in the arrows and pointed

let go of her

BANG!

himself over the approaching arrows. One of the arrows had been straight, while another one had ridges that would make it curve to the ground in case Shang somehow managed

arrow missed

CRK!