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!

was as

Shang's bloody mouth, purple mist coming out of

was already poisoning

The woman's eyes widened.

he still

have

later, Shang reached his

Clink!

of his sword, and it fell to

bow with his left arm

weapon away, and Shang's opponent knew that. Because of

decision would

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

hand touched

BANG!

right arm, shooting

right arm to the sky

BANG!

right arm

BANG!

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

the explosion, she had hit the

Circle broke Shang's right knee, but he didn't even

themselves around her head,

but there was nothing to block. The Magic Circle had noticed that its

woman screeched in

of ripping muscles and flesh echoed throughout

Shang went limp, and

over as his hands gripped the arrow in

CRK!

was ripped out along

was

mind was swimming, and he tried his best to

all his Mana on his neck, and

hurt like hell, even with his unreal tolerance for

weak mind, and Shang's

very real possibility that Shang could die since the poison

warrior's body, he couldn't

do anything

could do was to remain

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

'I can't die!'

mind went back to the time the silver hawk had looked into

horrible,

swam, and

And then…

The pain lightened.

hold of his

the pain

will survive!' Shang screamed in

pain