Sword God in a World of Magic

BANG!

Shang immediately used his left arm to shoot himself to his right.

Just an instant later, a bullet of purple sludge hit the place where Shang had just been. There had been enough sludge to cover Shang's entire body.

SSSSSSSSS!

A violent and high-pitched sizzling noise came from the sludge as it burned a hole into the ground.

Shang gritted his teeth. 'This is troublesome. The Spells of Poison Mages aren't very fast, but they are extremely effective against humans.'

Why were they so effective?

Well, what could the protective Magic Circle on Shang's uniform do against that?

Nothing.

Whenever Shang had fought Mages, he had always had his uniform to rely on, and he had definitely used the Magic Circles to his advantage in the past.

This wouldn't work against the Poison Adept.

This Spell was called Sludge Bolt, and if Shang got hit by it, he would definitely die.

The Poison Adept raised an eyebrow when he saw that Shang had evaded.

He hadn't expected that at all.

His target, Shang, was supposed to be a newly advanced Initial General Stage warrior. His speed shouldn't have been fast enough to evade the Sludge Bolt.

Sure, the Poison Adept had noticed that Shang had somehow reached the Early General Stage already, but that still shouldn't have been enough to evade the Sludge Bolt.

The Poison Adept was a Mid Adept. He was an entire level above this warrior.

Yet, this warrior managed to evade a Spell that came from a Mage an entire level above him?

This was very unusual. Many people would even say that this was impossible.

However, the Poison Adept didn't panic.

So what if his target evaded a Sludge Bolt? He would just need to use different Spells.

BANG!

Shang charged toward the Adept with all his speed as he readied his sword.

The Poison Adept began to chant a different Spell.

Shang reached the enemy very quickly since there hadn't been much distance between them. After all, they weren't fighting in the open but inside the Caves.

BANG!

Shang's heavy sword hit the Poison Adept's Mana Shield and bounced off.

The Poison Adept's eyebrows rose in surprise.

That was a lot of Mana that had just been used up!

'Doesn't matter,' the Poison Adept thought.

second later, his Spell was finished, and his

Shang's eyes shone.

Ranos' thorough lessons, Shang knew exactly what

the

BANG!

with Ice, and he jumped upwards with

moment too

the Poison Adept's Mana Shield and swept

Sludge Wave.

was the name of

several times more Mana than Sludge Bolt, but it was

Mana Step to get away, but Sludge Wave wasn't designed

Spell specifically created to

avoid the Sludge Wave with his Ice Blast

CLINK!

he buried his sword into it in a diagonal manner, allowing him to

hadn't hardened the walls over this many years, the ceiling would

his teeth as

below him was burning

already this

Poison Adept looked calmly

Sludge Wave,

many brilliant Mages that had designed this Spell over the years wouldn't overlook such a simple counter as

the Spell would basically

looked at the sea of poison below him with narrowed

for

if

they would still land in

the Poison Adept's

finished preparing

Sludge Bolt shot

BANG!

bit, and

BANG!

on one of the walls of the tunnel

to vanish at that place. A big part of the sludge also fell to the ground, leaving behind

Poison Adept

his Focus had readied

later, and Shang hung on a different part

up?" the Adept asked as

know that I am recovering Mana right now? Casting Spells with a Focus doesn't consume any of my

BANG!

This had been the

steaming. He had used different parts of his body to

Adept recovers Mana?" the Poison Adept asked with annoyance as he

Wave end, I have recovered all the Mana I

and

BANG!

the place where

do you plan to escape into a different tunnel?"

Sludge Bolt at Shang, he

to escape,

make the other tunnels collapse?"

shooting at Shang with Sludge Bolts as the Adept readied

WHOOOM!