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.

even a Peak True Mage could do

warrior that had managed to do something like

hard to believe, but this could only mean that Shang

wasn't even at the

present people felt like the

or so years ago, the first

came the

came the Star Map

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

those

looked over and saw a Mid Commander Stage warrior ask

50 Firebombs,"

Everyone's eyes widened again.

was a

clouds had been that thick

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

"The High Mage was a bit far away when I used them, and she hadn't been prepared for

It was a she? How did she

brows. "Come on, man. She's a High Mage of the

bit red in the face and looked

most of the people

most of the questions vaguely since he wanted to keep his powers a secret. The Skythunder Kingdom might be his home, but there were also a lot of

enough, Shang was more comfortable with revealing his

Shang didn't need to

that, since he didn't live there,

that Shang didn't

incredibly powerful High Mage after Shang to kill him. Such

the Dukes and Council, it was possible that a

Grandmountain Kingdom was no immediate threat to Shang, but the Council and Dukes

he didn't go into detail regarding how he had

Spells of the Mage Towers, somehow destroyed four of

didn't know how Shang had achieved any

words due to the

accept the Firebombs, but how did he manage to break through the Mana Shield of four Mage Towers while a High Mage was

Mana

and Mages returned

fight had

asked the people what had happened,

their Mage Towers, and the entire encampment had been reduced to basically

Towers hadn't been very difficult. Especially since two of them hadn't even been manned. The

the Skythunder Kingdom didn't even need to really fight. They only launched a couple of

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

up the

could barely be

the battle had gone,

had confirmed everything