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!

than 80% as powerful as an Initial

fight with his Full Mana, but without using

now fighting an average

And it was rough.

played with Shang, and Shang's offensive had been

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 to

the next couple of weeks, Shang's techniques became more efficient and flowed

Shang could win against an average Late High Mage

It looked about even.

couldn't be sure if he hadn't overdone it with weakening himself. After all, if

he couldn't be sure if Shang could

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

do the same if he

was all up in the air, and he couldn't be sure if Shang could win

power was higher than Jerald had hoped before he reached

this power, his plan could definitely

to manage his Zone

training, Shang's power stopped increasing, which meant that he had gotten used to fighting Mages again and that he had solidified his theories

would return to normal, and it would take a long

two of them stopped their practice. There was no more

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

He definitely hadn't exaggerated.

messed up, Jerald might very

truly trusting Shang with his

never truly happened before. Sure, there had been the barbarians, but it had been ingrained in

it came to someone as powerful and talented as Jerald, this was something

he didn't tell Jerald the

life, but Shang couldn't do the same thing in

too afraid of what

would bring

he became, the more powerful the Abominations across the entire