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.

of Mana Step had to be

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

Mage's Focus even managed to shoot two Spells at Shang, but with the distance between

then, the

fights couldn't even be called fights, the third one at least gave the

difference between an average Mage

the fight returned to its

Mage couldn't even get one Spell off except Mana Shield, and they died within

Mana became apparent at this

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

would only become even more terrifying as the levels of Shang's opponents

Mage's defense was fundamentally different from a

beast's defense

a defensive rating of 100 and one unleashed an attack with 100 power, the beast wouldn't receive any damage, no matter how many

101, the beast would

that a beast had a defense that needed a minimum amount of

Mages, that wasn't

Mana Shield

defensive rating of 100, and one attacked it with an attack with 1 power,

rate, which meant that the Mana

kind of defense made the

comparatively weak attacks but with

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.

to simply unleash 20 attacks with 20 power, creating a collective

take

It would be faster.

would deal more

It would be easier.

400 defense would crumble in only one wave,

the very difference in defense between Mages and

wasn't very difficult for Shang. The Mage managed to release a Spell and perform Mana Step, but the

vanished,

he would reach the ninth level, but the sixth level

would win, but the next fight

and Shang

be relevant to