Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang entered his inner world together with Sword.

It was finally time.

Right now, Sword was in its Colossal Sword State, making it over two meters long and half a meter wide.

Shang was wearing a black suit of armor that covered his entire body, and his hair had been shortened so that it only went a bit over his shoulders.

Wrapped around his left eye socket was a black band made of cloth.

In the past 50 years, Shang had aged quite a bit, but after he reached the True Path Stage, his perceived age receded.

Right now, Shang looked like he was in his early twenties again, which was understandable considering his longevity.

If a True Path Stage warrior could live as long as a High Mage, Shang could live to be up to 500 years old. This meant that not even 20% of his life had passed.

In a way, he looked very similar to the time he had returned to the Skythunder Kingdom. The only difference was the size of his weapon and his armor.

"We can begin," Shang said.

The big stele in the middle of his world vanished, and the old familiar wheel returned.

Just like always, the jester sat on the wheel with a smirk.

"What did you decide regarding the warrior category?" Shang asked without looking at the jester.

"Well," the jester answered, "I gave it some thought, and I decided..."

"That I will get rid of that category."

Shang furrowed his brows. "Any special reason?" he asked.

"You've created something interesting, Shang," the jester said. "Connecting four Stars is not something unprecedented, but it is very rare, even in the grand scheme of things."

"And I'm very interested in what someone like you can come up with."

"If I were to give you the opportunity to fight against ancient warriors, you would take inspiration from their fighting style, which might very likely make you emulate these old fighting styles."

"However, that's boring, and I want something new. That's why I got rid of the warrior category."

"I want to see what you can come up with without anyone to guide you."

Shang nodded expressionlessly.

of that. Not being able to see others that were

into what they were aiming for with their power, giving him an inkling as to where

things would

the rewards have been rescaled," the jester said. "Since you can't gain as many points as previously with one category missing, I've scrapped some of the more useless rewards and increased the overall quality. Additionally, I also got rid of rewards that are useless to you

now, not a trial to see how far

Shang didn't answer.

some seconds, the jester's smirk

reappeared. "Level one: Weak True Path Stage

felt like there were far more

for

over a million, which

the God was probably

a million different kinds of True Path Stage

that there were probably over a billion beasts in the world that had already

about such a number made Shang

world would be big, but he hadn't

how many

A hundred billion?

A trillion?

Ten trillion?

been overfilled with humans, and they had only been about seven to eight

this world that

big was this

thousand kilometers

A million?

Ten million?

sure that it had to

called

couldn't even begin to compare in

couple of seconds, the wheel stopped on something Shang couldn't make out. The field reserved

picture became bigger

was a stork wearing a

SHING!

opponent appeared, and he

was a thirty-meter-tall stork with scales for feathers, which looked very

very violent, and its

out his

his hammer with

DING!

And hit the bell!