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.

have to try it! It's too risky having so much foreign Mana

BANG!

his organs spreading over the

his natural regeneration might not

as he

death was

you don't absorb faster, I

several places, and he

out of Shang's body as the Mana

same time, Shang noticed that his Mana had become imbalanced. It was like his body was

organs were regenerating in the wrong places

BANG!

doing his best not to accidentally kill

death on

and

rapidly being consumed under Shang's

Shang kept

of the most panic-inducing and painful experiences in Shang's life, only superseded by the Procedure and the time he had consumed the first fruit

guts gathered around Shang, and he wanted to do nothing

However, Shang kept going.

hour later,

had returned, and it became impossible to absorb the

to enter his being again and fully focused

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

down and closed his

a door as someone tried to open it

was a battle

had to put his full focus

Every moment was difficult.

fighting off the will,

assault grew weaker, and Shang could

need to focus on the

grown so weak that it was no longer a

time in a long while, Shang opened

he did was look at the

remain," Shang

the beast's

took a deep

was only slightly more powerful than when he