Sword God in a World of Magic

The fact that the Magic Circle had been triggered meant that Shang had just taken a hit that would have killed him.

Shang quickly realized what his opponent had done, jumped back, and left the poisonous cloud.

And when Shang looked up, he saw his opponent coming toward him.

The Magic Circle had appeared above Shang's head, which meant that an attack had come from above him. His opponent hadn't had much time to evade, and the normal decision would have been to back away or jump to the side inside the poisonous cloud.

However, Shang's opponent had jumped up, immediately leaving the poisonous cloud just when Shang had entered it. Then, she had shot one of the unprepared metal rods into Shang's head. Firing a rod wasn't nearly as accurate as firing an arrow, but from such a short distance, she wouldn't miss.

Without the uniform, the rod would have pierced Shang's brain.

And the thing Shang had hit with his sword?

That was the front half of her left foot.

He had just barely managed to sever that part while she had passed over him.

And, right now, she was about to land on him.

That sounded great for Shang, but there was one issue.

A new arrow was already pointing at his head.

For a second, time seemingly stopped.

Shang couldn't evade this arrow. There was only a meter between them.

The arrow would hit his head.

At that moment, a fire appeared in Shang's eyes.

And he jumped towards her.

Her arrow left the bow.

BANG!

The arrow punched through Shang's gritted teeth, destroying them in the process.

Then, it hit Shang's neck through the back of his mouth.

CRK!

Shang's neck cracked…

But it held!

In this moment of crisis, Shang had decided to jump into the arrow so that it wouldn't hit his brain.

First, he would use his teeth to weaken the arrow a bit.

And then, he would trust in the power of the beast bones inside his body!

The bodies of beasts were way more powerful than the bodies of humans, and Shang was banking on the effect of the procedure!

His entire body was only a bit more than half as powerful as the body of a beast, but the bones of his spine had been replaced with beast bones!

as

out of Shang's bloody mouth, purple mist coming out of the opening

was

The woman's eyes widened.

was he

have

moment later, Shang reached

Clink!

go of his sword, and it fell to the

his left arm

to throw one's weapon away, and Shang's opponent knew

this decision

Shang in the chest, but Shang knew how to take

right hand touched her

BANG!

shooting his opponent to the

arm to the

BANG!

right arm was

BANG!

Circle on the woman's uniform activated as Shang's knee hit

explosion, she had hit the ground,

Shang's right knee,

hands quickly wrapped themselves around her head, and he

The Magic Circle had noticed that its host was under a life-threatening attack, but it couldn't deal

woman screeched in

muscles and flesh

and Shang threw the head in his hands to

over as his hands gripped the arrow in

CRK!

flesh was ripped out

flesh was black

he

Shang focused all his Mana on his neck,

hurt like hell, even with

poison had attacked his weak mind, and Shang's Mana had issues healing

a very real possibility that Shang could die since the

body, he couldn't send his Mana

couldn't do

thing he could do

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

repeated that phrase several times in his head as his mind went back to the time the silver hawk had looked into his eyes after he

pain was horrible, and

vision swam, and he barely remained

And then…

The pain lightened.

managed to take hold of his

the pain

survive!' Shang screamed in his

the pain became