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

to fight with his Full Mana, but without using any special Spells or

was now fighting

And it was rough.

essentially played with Shang, and

to deal more damage to the Mana Shield than Jerald recovered Mana, and the terrifying thing was that Jerald would just

short, Shang didn't manage to

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

could win against an average

It looked about even.

if he hadn't overdone it with weakening himself. After all, if this were a game, he would essentially be using only

that, he couldn't be sure

when pushed to the brink, could

could probably do the same

up in the air, and he couldn't be

higher than Jerald had hoped before he reached the True

his plan could

had to take some breaks to manage his Zone every couple of

around three months of training, Shang's power stopped increasing, which meant that he had gotten used to fighting Mages

return to normal, and it would take a

their practice. There was no more

Jerald shared his plan with Shang, and Shang finally realized why

He definitely hadn't exaggerated.

up, Jerald might very likely

trusting

truly happened before. Sure, there had been the barbarians, but it had been ingrained in

powerful and

he didn't tell Jerald the

Shang with his life, but Shang

simply too afraid of

would bring calamity to the

powerful the