Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang slashed upward.

CRACK!

Sword easily cut through the thick armor of the centipede.

Obviously, Shang wouldn't attempt to kill a True Path Stage beast with a Commander Stage weapon.

In the last ten years, Shang had also gotten the Darkness Ore from Jerald, and Shang had openly bought the Fire and Ice Ore himself. He had basically gone public with a Temperature Affinity, making his purchases reasonable.

After that, Jerald had given Shang the ore he needed to upgrade Sword to the Early True Path Stage.

However, Shang's funds had essentially dried up.

These kinds of materials couldn't be bought with gold, but Jerald sold them for gold anyway.

Shang had paid over a billion gold for all the ore, which was an unreasonable amount for a Commander Stage warrior.

Decades of Shang gathering Foci, materials, and gold had vanished in just an instant.

However, it allowed him to upgrade Sword, and he wasn't worried about the future.

With such a weapon, he could now hunt True Path Stage beasts, which he could trade for even more ore.

As Shang's sword cut into the armor, it suddenly shone brightly.

It was the ranged attack Shang had introduced to the world, but it was slightly different this time.

There was no Element in the slash. Additionally, the power of the slash didn't exactly leave the domain of his sword.

How had the warriors of the past managed to fell such gigantic beasts with their comparatively tiny weapons?

This was the answer.

As long as there was living matter, the ranged attack could be used as an extension for the actual slash.

It was like Shang's sword had transformed to be over 20 meters long, but only while being inside an enemy's body.

Sadly, the actual power or weight of the strike didn't change. It simply extended the attack's reach.

After cutting through half the body, Shang felt his sword slow down. The centipede's body was thick and massive, making it very difficult for him to cut through the entire thing.

BANG!

A Fire Blast came out of Shang's left leg, shooting it upward.

BANG!

With a powerful kick, his left leg hit the back of his colossal sword, pushing it forward.

CRRRRK!

The sword continued going.

BANG! BANG!

Shang kept hold of his sword and released two more blasts, shooting himself past the centipede.

CRACK! CRACK!

out of the walls as

bulged as he continued

sword was making more progress through the centipede's body, and the continued power of Shang's Blasts gave him more strength than the

And then…

CRACK!

entire body, and its head started to

out of the body, bathing Shang and his surroundings in a crimson

impossible if Shang's body hadn't already reached the absolute peak

beast was two levels above him, and its

just a moment, time had seemingly stopped,

BANG!

right eye shot open in

armor had

would have

quickly focused on his surroundings again, and he realized

spikes were

BANG!

exploded out of Shang's body as he used another Blast

body had been thrown all over the place by the continued uses of the Blasts, and Shang

centipede that had been wrestled out of the

couldn't believe what

off that thing's

still attack

of the centipede retreated from Shang as the centipede's back

A second head!

this its actual

the falling "head" he

was

often had a tail that mimicked their head, but Shang wasn't stupid. He could tell a tail from

of a beast

shouldn't be surprised,' he thought with a narrowed eye.

BANG! BANG!

kept exploding left and right to dodge the continuing

all his Mana to heal

Vanish had used up a huge amount of his

now out

new injury would stay with him

to be more

prepared himself mentally again while dodging the spikes and then

WHOOOOM!

moment, Shang felt a powerful pulse of Mana come from behind him, and he felt

time, the centipede stopped shooting its spikes at Shang

and saw

had landed on the ground, and

speed at which blood spread, and this

like all the blood in the centipede's body had

blood didn't flow in natural

in the middle of the cave, and

transformed into a complex

all the spikes the centipede had shot earlier had perfectly been placed at the

it had planned all of this from

kill him but to set up this

instant later, the entire cave turned a bloody red, and there was

instantly, and at that