Sword God in a World of Magic

Jerald took it easy on Shang. After all, Jerald was far more powerful than him.

For now, Jerald decided to emulate a normal Mid High Mage. He simply slowed his movements and used less Mana for his Spells.

Sure enough, Shang had shown incredible power. In fact, Jerald had to do his best not to increase his power by more since Shang kept pushing him back at frightening speeds.

The new techniques Shang had come up with in the last 50 years were especially terrifying. Just the fact that Shang had created such an effective technique against Mages in his Colossal Sword State was impressive.

Jerald also felt the power of Shang's attacks on his Mana Shield.

Initially, it wasn't anything too special, but as Shang entered his Great Sword State, the power ramped up significantly!

And when Shang entered his Saber State, the fight had completely changed yet again.

But the most terrifying state was the Long Sword State. At least for Mages.

Shang had dealt significant damage to Jerald's Mana Shield in that state, and he even had to stop Shang before he completely ran out of Mana.

Shang had managed to break the Mana Shield of a Late High Mage, although Jerald had been fighting with the strength of a normal Mid High Mage.

At that point, there was no more doubt.

Shang had definitely reached a level where he could kill an average Mid High Mage.

That was a jump of two levels!

Against a Mage!

Back when Shang had been in the second trial, he had come to a draw with the powerful Early True Mage.

Fighting against an average Mid True Mage should have been about as difficult, maybe a bit easier.

But this time, Shang had been on the offensive several times, and he could have probably progressed even faster if he wasn't testing out several of his new techniques.

Additionally, his body wasn't even at its peak for his level!

was only a bit more than 80% as powerful

to fight with his Full Mana,

fighting an average Late

And it was rough.

essentially played with Shang, and Shang's offensive had been weakened

only rarely managed to deal more damage to the Mana Shield than Jerald recovered Mana, and the terrifying thing was that Jerald would just recover more Mana after the short

short, Shang didn't manage

techniques became more

could win against an average

It looked about even.

After all, if this were

be sure

High Mage, when pushed to the brink, could unleash significant

Shang could probably do the same if he faced

air, and he couldn't be sure if Shang could

had hoped before he reached the True

his plan

breaks to manage his Zone every

meant that he had gotten

to normal, and it would take a long time for him to make

of them stopped their practice. There was no more point

plan with Shang, and Shang finally realized why Jerald had said that

He definitely hadn't exaggerated.

Jerald might very likely

was truly trusting Shang with his

the barbarians, but it had been ingrained in their

to someone as powerful and

guilty that he didn't tell Jerald the truth about his connection

but Shang couldn't do the same

afraid of

very existence would bring calamity to

more powerful he became, the more powerful the Abominations across