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 Mage

had never been a warrior that had

this could only mean that Shang was more powerful than

he wasn't even at the True Path

like the world

years ago, the first True Path Stage warrior

came the

Star Map and

now, just five years after that, the first warrior that could actually resist a High Mage had made

those black

a Mid

Firebombs,"

Everyone's eyes widened again.

a

wonder the clouds had been that

the same warrior asked. "Couldn't they just stop

away

a she? How did she look?" the

man. She's a High Mage of

bit red in the

that short exchange, most of the people

he wanted to keep his powers a secret. The Skythunder Kingdom might be his home, but there

his powers to

reason was that Shang didn't need

live there, the Grandmountain

that Shang

just send an incredibly powerful High Mage after Shang to kill him. Such a High Mage

Council, it was possible that a member of the Council

to Shang, but the Council and Dukes

into detail regarding how

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

how Shang had achieved any of these

words

manage to break through the Mana Shield of four

Mana

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

the fight had

soldiers immediately asked the people what had happened, and

half their Mage Towers, and the entire encampment had been

two of them hadn't even been manned. The Mages that

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

but with only two of them

that, they cleaned up the place without much

could barely be counted as a

retellings of how the battle had gone, they looked at Shang with shock

confirmed everything Shang had