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 as an Initial True

fight with his Full Mana, but without using any

fighting an average

And it was rough.

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

this moment on, he 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

didn't

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

the end, Jerald wasn't sure if Shang could win against an

It looked about even.

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

of that, he couldn't be

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

Shang could probably do the

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

than Jerald had

his

some breaks to manage his Zone every

he had gotten used to fighting Mages again and

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

stopped their practice.

point, Jerald shared his plan with Shang, and Shang finally realized why Jerald had said that his power would be the key to

He definitely hadn't exaggerated.

Jerald might very likely

truly trusting

been the barbarians, but it had been ingrained in their traditions to

to someone as powerful and talented as Jerald,

Shang also felt guilty that he didn't tell Jerald the truth

Shang couldn't do

too afraid of

very existence would bring

the more powerful the Abominations across the