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!

a bit more than 80% as powerful as an Initial True

with his Full Mana, but without

Shang was now fighting an average Late

And it was rough.

Shang, and Shang's offensive had been weakened

deal more damage to the Mana Shield than Jerald recovered Mana, and

short, Shang didn't

Shang's techniques

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

It looked about even.

overdone it with weakening himself. After all, if this were a game, he would essentially be

of that, he couldn't be sure if Shang

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

do the same if

Jerald, it was all up in the air, and he couldn't be sure

had hoped before he

his plan could

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

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

now on, Shang's progression of power would return to normal, and it would take a long time for

that point, the two of them stopped their practice. There was no

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

He definitely hadn't exaggerated.

Shang messed up, Jerald might very likely

truly trusting

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

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

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

but Shang

simply too afraid of

his very existence would

he became, the more powerful the