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 Adepts Shang had

Yes, thousands.

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

also had to remember that Shang had been

several thousand Adepts in

had the

Definitely fewer than that.

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

order to fight the same number of Mages as Shang, they would

so many Adepts, and it definitely wasn't easy to pull off. After all, the arrow had been

to remember that incredibly talented warriors could fight average Mages on their level. An incredibly talented Early General Stage warrior

one of these incredibly talented warriors, which also meant that she had the power to fight an average Early Adept, an opponent Shang hadn't managed to win against

fight someone and winning against someone are two different

the next arrow was

She released her arrow.

arrow shot towards the left side of Shang's

How did Shang react?

jumped to the

to the right of

And then…

It missed!

Shang's right, missing him in the

woman's eyes narrowed even further as she quickly retrieved several

the arrow's back had been

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

if Shang had jumped to the right, the arrow would

twenty meters

her hand, and

create three arrows instead

now, Shang was only five meters away

next arrow pointed

go

Shang jumped upward.

the arrow

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

arrows at Shang, who

ridges in the arrows and pointed his left hand at the

woman let go of her

BANG!

straight, while another one had ridges that would make it curve to the ground in case Shang somehow managed to

first arrow missed

CRK!