Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at the fish for some time.

'It would be a matter of luck to get the right beast, and I don't want to accidentally run into something too powerful. I think I should try it.'

Shang slowly dug out the fish's heart and started to consume it.

After he had eaten around half the heart, his brows furrowed.

'The Mana is not activating. I thought I could eat half of the heart, but apparently, I need to eat the entire thing to strengthen my body. I think it has something to do with the beast's will.'

Shang looked at the remaining heart, narrowed his eye, and consumed it as well.

When Shang swallowed the last bite, he felt his body heat up.

He was reminded of the time he had consumed the Earth Fruit Hedgehog's first fruit.

'Speaking of,' Shang thought. 'I think I am powerful enough to fight the Earth Fruit Hedgehog equally now. Duke Whirlwind said that it reached the Mid Commander Stage after consuming the Old Ice Octopus.'

The insurmountable gap of power Shang felt whenever he had looked at the Earth Fruit Hedgehog had vanished.

'Can't get distracted now. Need to deal with the Mana.'

Shang decided that he had to take drastic measures. After all, if there were too much Mana remaining inside his body, it would become troublesome.

BANG! BANG!

Shang released two opposing Blasts, one after the other, severely injuring his body.

Shang quickly shoved all his own Mana into healing his body, and his body was consuming the beast's Mana to regain its old storage.

Shang hadn't cleared his Mana before swallowing the heart since he didn't need to. He had already experimented a couple of times. Thanks to his warrior body, he had the ability to use up his own Mana at terrifying rates.

The beast's Mana was entering Shang's being at rapid rates, but that wasn't nearly fast enough.

BANG! BANG!

Shang injured his own body even more, the pain starting to face him.

His body was trying to heal rapidly, but controlling foreign Mana wasn't very easy.

But Shang noticed that his body was absorbing the Mana a tiny bit faster.

to try it! It's too risky having so

BANG!

two blasts, his organs

his own Mana, and his natural regeneration might not be fast enough

his teeth as he tried to stay

of death

you don't absorb faster,

places, and

out of Shang's body as the Mana

noticed that his Mana had become

were regenerating in the wrong places

BANG!

doing his best not to

was a constant battle of death on the tiny tightrope above a

wrong step and Shang would

being consumed under Shang's controlled

was incredibly painful, but Shang kept an iron grip on

most panic-inducing and painful experiences in Shang's life, only superseded by the Procedure and the time he had consumed the first fruit

and he wanted to do nothing more

However, Shang kept going.

hour

had returned, and it became impossible to absorb the

allowed foreign Mana to enter his being again and fully focused

some kind of foreign will attack his mind. It felt very similar to fighting

the foreign will, Shang sat down and closed his

leaning against a door as someone tried

a battle of

to put his full focus on resisting the enemy's

Every moment was difficult.

kept fighting off the will, but he was sure that a long time had gone

the assault grew weaker, and Shang could actually relax

need to focus on the battle

weak that it

the first time in a long while,

he did was look at the big stone

remain," Shang read in

battling the beast's will for 13

a

only slightly more powerful than when he had strengthened himself