Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang slowly walked back to the Skythunder Kingdom as one soldier after the other charged past him toward the Grandmountain Kingdom.

'I've got quite some good gains from this excursion,' Shang thought as he continued walking.

'I know how powerful the weakest High Mages are now, and I could test several of my new techniques.'

'I even managed to severely damage the High Mage's shield, although that was luck. She just so happened to arrive in front of me of her own volition, and I just so happened to be above her.'

'In a normal fight, she would just keep her distance with Mana Step and slowly kill me from afar.'

'Right now, my speed isn't fast enough to truly keep up with a High Mage. I guess I need to reach the Peak Commander Stage first before I can try.'

Shang glanced at Sword, who was much smaller than before the attack. 'Luckily, I have a lot of money. With all the beasts and Foci I gathered, I don't need to care about this bit of ore.'

"How's the Entropy looking?" Shang asked Sword with a voice transmission.

"No problem," Sword answered. "I don't need more right now."

Shang nodded. "How was the pain?"

He still remembered that Sword had also been injured quite a bit.

"I don't like it, but I have to get used to it," Sword answered.

"Sorry about that," Shang said.

"There is nothing to be sorry about," Sword answered. "Power requires pain."

Shang smiled a bit.

He could empathize with Sword a lot.

They were very similar.

After a couple of minutes, Shang reached the outpost of the Skythunder Kingdom.

There were definitely far fewer people here than before.

Shang walked through the gates without being stopped, while many eyes looked at him with shock.

This madman actually survived!

They had all seen the distant black clouds. Such black clouds couldn't be created by a Mage Tower, and they represented a vast burning area.

This meant that something really big and flammable was burning, which could only be the enemy frontline.

Additionally, their Duke had already told them to get ready for battle, basically confirming that Shang had severely weakened the enemy.

All of this was basically unbelievable to everyone present.

Only a High Mage could pull something like that off.

a Peak True

warrior that had managed to do something like

but this could only mean that Shang was

wasn't even at the True Path Stage

felt like

years ago, the first True Path Stage

the Bloodline

came the Star Map and

after that, the first warrior that could actually resist a High Mage had made

were those

and saw a Mid Commander Stage warrior

Firebombs,"

Everyone's eyes widened again.

was a lot of

clouds had been that thick

to detonate the Firebombs with a High Mage there?" the same warrior asked. "Couldn't they just stop all the projectiles with

Shang said. "The High Mage was a bit far away when I used them, and

was a she? How did

She's a High Mage

a bit red in the face and

exchange, most of the people lost their

Kingdom might be his home, but there were also a lot of enemies

more comfortable with revealing his

that Shang didn't

there, the Grandmountain Kingdom couldn't create

additional reason was that Shang didn't need to interact with

Shang to kill him. Such

his more sensitive powers to the Dukes and Council, it was

threat to

go into detail regarding how he

knew that Shang managed to evade the Spells of the Mage Towers, somehow destroyed four of them, somehow managed to

didn't know how Shang had achieved any

of them even doubted Shang's words due to

how did he manage to break through the Mana Shield of four Mage

Mana Shield definitely wasn't

minutes later, several warriors and Mages returned from the Grandmountain Kingdom to man their

the fight had

asked the people what

had lost half their Mage Towers, and the entire encampment had been reduced to basically something that amounted to

them

army of the Skythunder Kingdom didn't even need to really fight. They only launched a couple of Spells and created some defensive Spells to take down the

would have died under the avalanche, but with only two of them firing,

up the place

be counted

all the soldiers heard the retellings of how the battle had gone, they

had confirmed everything Shang had