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!

meant that his spine was as hard

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

arrow was already

The woman's eyes widened.

was he still

should have severed

later, Shang

Clink!

of his sword,

grabbed the bow with his left arm

a fight was to throw one's weapon away, and Shang's opponent knew that. Because of that, she kept holding her bow with her

this decision would doom

chest, but

hand touched

BANG!

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

arm to the

BANG!

arm was

BANG!

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

she had hit the

knee, but he didn't even really

wrapped themselves around

woman's head, but there was nothing to block. The Magic Circle had noticed that its host was under a life-threatening attack, but it couldn't

woman screeched

of ripping muscles and flesh echoed

moment later, the body below Shang went limp, and Shang threw the head in his hands

Shang fell over as his hands gripped the arrow in his

CRK!

was ripped out

was black

and he tried

his Mana on his neck, and it was just barely enough

Shang's head still hurt like hell, even with his unreal tolerance for

and Shang's Mana had issues healing

possibility that Shang could die since the poison was still

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

do anything against

only thing he could do was to

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

times in his head as his mind went back to the time the silver hawk had looked into his eyes after he had been

horrible, and

and he barely

And then…

The pain lightened.

to take hold of his

pain became

Shang

pain