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."

category, huh? Last time, I only barely beat level nine, but I got ten points due to the Ice King's sheer

time, I'm already at level 13, and I doubt that I will lose

complete impossibility. I'm certain that I can't even beat a single one of the beasts

likely win. If I get one that focuses on defense, I will probably also win. However, if I get one

and the Great Sword State, Shang's preferred opponents were now beasts that focused on defense. In the past, these exact opponents had been his bane

Funny how things changed.

Shang pulled his Colossal Sword up and readied himself for

Colossal Sword State unless the opponent wasn't

chosen, and he looked

him raise

bowl of seared

SHING!

moment, Shang's opponent appeared, and

It was a shrimp.

just a

was about 50-meters-long, but it was still just

nothing special about it

of beasts are bottom-feeders in gigantic oceans, which is surprising

hammer and hit the

DING!

at Shang. Then, the shrimp turned to

BOOOOM!

it exploded forward

but the shrimp's

that the shrimp only counted as a

Peak True Path

four levels above Shang's body, making the difference in speed absolutely

but a Peak True

fight against the Serpent since it had barely

hadn't been prepared for such an explosion of speed, he would have been unable

To the current Shang, the shrimp's speed and a Mage's Mana

couldn't think fast enough to

when someone spoke to

person would see the other one move their mouth and hear their voice at the same time, even though the speed

things were so fast that they couldn't

thing was true for

had seen even the slightest bit of movement coming from the shrimp,

didn't actually

shrimp's shears immediately went past Shang's Colossal Sword and went for his