Sword God in a World of Magic

It took Shang a while to calm down, but there was still a certain feeling of emptiness and regret inside of him.

Yet, this was what he had chosen.

For his goal, any kind of sacrifice was worth it.

Surprisingly, no new opponent had appeared in the last couple of minutes, even though Shang had already "won" against his previous one.

Shang slowly stood up and gripped Sword tightly.

Even if everything else vanished, Sword would be with him until the end.

The two of them didn't need to exchange words to make their feelings known.

"Took you guys long enough," the jester said with a grin.

Shang didn't look over.

"How long have we been training?"

The jester's grin widened.

"Five years."

Silence.

Five years.

They had been training for five full years.

That was so long!

For a second, Shang couldn't believe what he had just heard, but then he remembered how endlessly time had dragged on.

Five years actually made sense.

"And even after five years," Shang said, "I still couldn't beat him fairly."

The jester's grin didn't vanish. "Of course not," he said.

"His kind are the very reason why I sent you guys into my main world in the first place."

Shang looked over at the jester.

"Hardworking geniuses," the God said. "They use whatever they can get and perfect it. Yet, his body is weak. He is one of the very rare true geniuses, but his lack of a powerful body makes it impossible for him to fight any Mage or beast that is not completely worthless."

"The path of the warrior has deteriorated to a degree where mastering the entire thing only makes you equal to the worst Mages in the world."

"It is your duty to expand the warrior's path. Give the geniuses more to master, and they won't disappoint you."

"Your predecessor accepted the first Path he found, not trying to strengthen or widen it."

he will never reach the Fifth Realm. His Path

breath when he

God was obviously

more powerful than him, the Dean would never

that your predecessor couldn't rival the

would have

this warrior came too early. If he had been born just fifty years later,

Path, and even if he is still working on it,

remained silent

no way?"

"I designed this world to always

only one of many ways to strengthen your body. Back when warriors were still

looked at the jester. "Are there

won't find a single inheritance

I've said, there are

duty to find them," the jester

silent as he

wanted to repay Teacher Mervin, even if the Teacher Mervin that helped him had not

is a way, all

strengthened his grip on

the next fight," he

The jester didn't answer.

the wheels began to

Peak Commander Stage warrior," the mechanical voice

and looked at the jester again. "You don't count the last fight as cheating,

the jester said. "You didn't rely on my power. Also, your progress pleases me, and I don't want to punish you for living up

'Progress, huh?' Shang thought.

progress?

SHING!

moment,

his hands, just like

a barbarian, but he knew that wouldn't

all, the man wasn't carrying a heavy weapon but

basically didn't qualify as opponents in this trial. They were neither warriors nor beasts, and they were worse than

that the person in front of Shang was

their own, only working on

hermit warrior would be among the more powerful warriors, but this

lifted his hammer and struck

DING!

opened his eyes and looked at Shang with

to the side, creating a screeching noise by

movements had been

entered

BANG!

And suddenly exploded forward.

eye and also

of them charged at each other, and Shang readied

bend in