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.

dodge that arrow only existed thanks to the thousands of Adepts Shang had fought

Yes, thousands.

for a month, and that wasn't nearly enough time to become proficient in fighting against

remember that

fought several thousand Adepts in

many Mages had the

Definitely fewer than that.

per week, and they would, at most,

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

definitely wasn't easy to pull off. After all, the arrow had been about as fast as

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

of these incredibly talented warriors, which also meant that she had the power to fight an average Early

'being able to fight someone and winning against someone are

next arrow was ready, and Shang's eyes

She released her arrow.

arrow shot towards the left side of Shang's

How did Shang react?

to the

arrow was pointing to the right of Shang's chest since he had already

And then…

It missed!

towards Shang's right, missing him

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

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

normal person's left chest, the target would quickly evade to the other side.

to the right, the arrow would have hit him

there were only twenty

in her hand, and all three of

had to create three arrows instead of one, it

Shang was only five

arrow pointed at

let go

Shang jumped upward.

arrow

and she had put a second arrow on top

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

noticed the ridges in the arrows and pointed

let go

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

first arrow

CRK!