Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang continued hunting for another two days.

Sadly, no matter how many risky situations he brought himself into, the Cleaner just wouldn't bite.

Shang even accepted a mission to hunt a pair of Peak General Stage beasts, and he fought both of them at the same time.

This fight had actually taken a couple of seconds. All the others had ended in, at most, two seconds.

Yet, even then, the Cleaner hadn't shown themselves.

'What is their plan?' Shang thought with furrowed brows. 'With these two beasts, it would be three on one. You are a Peak Adept! Are you too afraid to attack some warrior a level below you with a numerical advantage?'

By now, Shang was getting really annoyed.

What, did he need to attack a Commander Stage beast for them to show up?!

Shang wasn't completely against attacking an Initial Commander Stage beast, but he certainly didn't want to do that while someone was out for his life. Such a fight would need all of Shang's reserves.

'Would I attack me if I were the Cleaner?' Shang thought.

Then, he thought about what he had done over the past couple of days.

'I might have shown too much of my power,' Shang realized. 'Sure, if I were them, I would have already attacked. After all, this seems like an interesting fight.'

'However, not everyone is like me. In comparison to me, the Cleaner doesn't need to fight. If they believe the mission to be too dangerous, they could simply retreat and give up.'

Shang looked at his surroundings with furrowed brows.

'It's very possible that they have already retreated.'

'I screwed up. If they decide to abort the mission, the Wilburys won't lose any money.'

Right now, Shang wasn't sure how he should feel.

He had felt frustrated and suppressed every day he had remained in Warrior's Paradise. He wanted to go outside and fight. Yet, the constant presence of the Cleaner had forced him to stay inside.

Now, Shang was finally taking the plunge, but the very power that had suppressed him for so long had vanished.

is no way to lure them out, staying here is pointless,' Shang thought.

which was about

also no threat anymore. I'm only at the Late General Stage, but not even one of the Peak General Stage beasts managed to put up a decent fight. They all

expect things

own hand with furrowed

that powerful? I don't really

powerful was

the Procedure, Shang's body was nearly as powerful as the body of an

Peak General Stage beast solo, but the fight wouldn't be super

was definitely far weaker than the body of a Peak

a lot

at the Initial Commander Stage, which made it as hard and sharp as the hardest tusk or horn of an Initial Commander Stage

fighting experience. With those things, he could easily

everything combined, Shang's power had reached the power

at the

time, Shang had only been around the peak powers of

wasn't hunting with other General Stage warriors, and he hadn't

completely isolated from the normal

that powerful. In fact, he

Shang was even stronger than the Dean had been back when he had been on

the most powerful General Stage warrior in the world, and he wasn't

return

slowly walked back

Bang.

to

just heard a distant explosion, and he could see a couple of icicles flying

he saw something jump up and hit something with

hit was circular,

was a Mana

been warnings of an Ice Demon recently,' Shang thought. 'I guess this

Bang.

wind, and a second later, a huge spire made of

the local blacklist, and they should know that the

in a fight with it?' Shang