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!

that his spine was as hard as the spine

arrow stuck out of Shang's bloody mouth, purple mist coming out

was already poisoning

The woman's eyes widened.

he

should have

moment later, Shang

Clink!

of his sword, and

his left arm

to throw one's weapon away, and Shang's opponent knew that. Because of that, she kept

decision would doom

elbow punched Shang in the chest, but Shang knew how to

hand touched

BANG!

explosion of fire came out of his right arm, shooting his opponent to the ground and shooting him into

right arm to the sky and

BANG!

right arm was

BANG!

the woman's uniform

to the explosion, she had hit the ground, torso

right knee, but he didn't even really

themselves around her

block. The Magic Circle had noticed that

screeched

of ripping muscles and flesh

below Shang went limp, and Shang threw

his hands

CRK!

out along with the

flesh was black as

swimming, and he

his Mana on his neck, and it was

still hurt like hell, even with his

his weak mind, and

Shang could die

his warrior's body, he couldn't send his Mana into

couldn't do

could do

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

time the silver hawk had looked

pain was horrible, and it

and

And then…

The pain lightened.

of his vanishing consciousness and

the pain

Shang screamed in his

pain became