Sword God in a World of Magic

As Dawn vanished, Shang could finally see the Serpent again.

It had been broken into two pieces, and it was falling towards the ground.

Just because someone was very powerful didn't mean that they didn't need their organs.

In fact, starting at the General Stage, the organs inside someone's body had already stopped their old functions and assumed new ones.

They were responsible for moving Mana around and generating life energy.

Without organs, someone's life energy would very quickly deteriorate until they died.

Even getting rid of just one organ already put a major dent in someone's ability to generate life energy.

With most of the Serpent's organs gone, it was already basically dead.

Beasts didn't have the luxury of quickly being able to recover parts of their bodies. They needed a bit of time to recover everything.

As the Serpent fell to the ground, Shang charged forward and put his arm on one of the halves, quickly regaining all his lost Mana and life energy.

A couple of seconds later, the cheering returned, and the corpse vanished.

Shang took a deep breath.

'The fight definitely hadn't been easy, but I won. The start was rough, but as soon as I managed to unleash New Moon, I gained control over the fight.'

'Sure enough, the Great Sword State is best for dealing with beasts.'

As Shang looked at the vanishing corpse, he thought about something he didn't like.

'Any random Late High Mage could have defeated this Serpent. I'm honestly not sure if I can win against an average Late High Mage at this point.'

'Additionally, a very talented Mid High Mage will very likely also win against the Serpent.'

'But my power has already made a great jump compared to the last trial.'

'Last time, level six in the Mage category had already ended my trial, but this time, I'm certain that I can reach level nine. With luck, I might even beat level eleven, but I'm honestly not sure.'

As the wheel returned, Shang fed more ore to Sword.

"Level 13: Weak Peak True Path Stage beast."

I only barely beat level nine, but I got ten points due to the Ice

at level 13, and I doubt

will be a complete impossibility. I'm certain that I can't even beat a single

beast, I will most likely win. If I get one that focuses

State, Shang's preferred opponents were now beasts that focused on defense. In the past, these exact opponents had been his bane since he hadn't been powerful enough to

Funny how things changed.

finished spinning, Shang pulled his Colossal

always started in the Colossal Sword State unless the opponent wasn't in the least

was chosen, and he looked at the

image made him raise an

was a bowl

SHING!

that moment, Shang's opponent appeared, and he wasn't really

It was a shrimp.

was just a

but it was still just

was nothing special about it except

bottom-feeders in gigantic oceans, which is surprising considering

jester lifted his hammer and

DING!

pointed at Shang. Then, the shrimp turned

BOOOOM!

exploded forward with terrifying

but the shrimp's speed was still

shrimp only counted

Peak True Path

above Shang's body, making the difference in speed

as an average Mid True Path Stage beast, but a Peak True Path Stage

in Shang's fight against the Serpent

been prepared for such an explosion of speed,

an instant. To the current Shang, the

couldn't

like when someone spoke to someone else

at the same time, even though

person, both things were so fast that

thing was

the slightest bit of movement coming from the shrimp, he had swung his Colossal Sword upwards, not knowing if it would connect

didn't actually

shrimp's shears immediately went past Shang's