Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang had transformed Sword into its Colossal Sword State again, but due to the God's answer, he had decided to stop with the beast category.

Shang quickly transformed Sword into its Saber State for the Mage category. He didn't really mind all the ore he had wasted by doing that. He had more than enough ore.

The wheel began to spin, and just like last time, there were now Affinities on the wheel instead of pictures.

Shang didn't really care about what Affinities his first few opponents had, and he simply waited for his opponent.

The first Mage appeared, and Shang simply looked at them without any changes to his expression.

The bell rang, and the Mage opened their eyes.

They were immediately greeted by a Shooting Star.

BANG!

Surprisingly, even the weak High Mage managed to get their Mana Shield off before Shooting Star hit, surprising Shang by a little.

However, Shang just continued unleashing Shooting Stars and Hidden Suns one after the other, and before the Mage had even readied their first Spell, their Mana Shield already broke.

It took three attacks to break the Mana Shield.

The Mage couldn't even comprehend what had happened before the next attack blew them apart.

And that was level one.

Level two literally wasn't any different.

Level three, on the other hand, saw some slight changes.

The Mage managed to get Mana Shield plus Mana Step off very quickly, and their Focus was already condensing a Spell.

However, Shang only needed to angle his new attacks to the Mage's new spot.

The Mage used Mana Step once again, and Shang continued shooting at their new location.

Obviously, the Mage was trying to exhaust Shang's Mana. After all, such an insanely powerful offense had to cost a ridiculous amount of Mana, right?

With every Mana Step, the Mage managed to evade about five attacks.

Mana Step had to be lower than what the opponent was using with

Shang's attacks began to connect again as the Mage grew more worried with

with the distance between

then, the Mage

called fights, the third one at least gave the

sheer difference between an

fight returned

Spell off except Mana

difference in terms of Mana became apparent at

needed three attacks to destroy the Mana Shield of an Initial High Mage, but he needed nine attacks for the Mana Shield of an Early High

terrifying as the levels of

a Mage's defense was fundamentally different from

look at a beast's defense as a threshold one had to

with 100 power,

101, the beast would take

a defense that needed a minimum amount

Mages, that wasn't the

Mage's Mana Shield would

a defensive rating of 100, and one attacked it with an attack with

also regenerated Mana at a terrifying rate, which meant that the Mana Shield would also regain its

difference in the kind of defense made the Saber and Long Sword States

attacks but with insane

concentration, preparation, and power for Shang to unleash an attack with 200 power, and that attack would probably also be very slow and a one-time thing. Shang definitely couldn't use such an

it would be incredibly easy for Shang to simply unleash 20 attacks with 20 power, creating a

take

It would be faster.

deal more

It would be easier.

defense would crumble in only one wave, while a beast with only 30

in defense between Mages

five wasn't very difficult for Shang. The Mage managed to release a Spell and

corpse vanished, Shang

the ninth level,

win, but the next fight would require Shang

and Shang looked

be relevant to