Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang didn't remember the last time he had fought an enemy Mage with an Earth Affinity that wasn't a complete pushover.

'A powerful Early High Mage with an Earth Affinity, huh? I wonder how they fight.'

SHING!

Shang's opponent appeared.

It was a tall man with brown hair and a rough, long beard. He looked a bit like a barbarian.

Shang didn't enter his Colossal Sword State. For now, the Saber State should be enough, and the Colossal Sword State was not as great when it came to dealing with Earth Mages.

The reason was that Refraction and Reflection didn't work that well against Earth Mages.

Additionally, Shang didn't think that it was necessary to enter his Colossal Sword State yet. The Saber State should still be enough.

The jester slowly lifted his hammer and hit the bell.

DING!

Shang immediately unleashed his Shooting Stars and Hidden Suns at the Mage.

When the Mage noticed the assault, his eyes narrowed.

In an instant, he had already created his Mana Shield.

SHING!

He also used a Mana Step immediately to gain some distance from Shang.

When Shang saw that, he blasted forward with an Ice Blast while continuing his assault.

CRK!

At that moment, two huge claws shot out of the earth around the Mage, and they grabbed the Mana Shield.

Then, they moved the Mana Shield to the side, making Shang's attacks miss.

The claws could move through the earth, and they pulled the Mage with them.

Shang got reminded of the first talented Mage he had ever fought back in the first trial. That Mage had been a Lightning Mage, and he had surrounded his Mana Shield with lightning to achieve a similar effect.

move the Mana Shield around with the claws, but he assumed

as using a Spell. The Mage could probably just move them as long as

Mage wasn't moving particularly fast with the earth claws, but he was very good at moving them,

lot of mobility. That's usually the

Mage while he continued unleashing his

side to avoid the attacks, but he also had

would be a bad idea to let such a powerful

difficult to avoid Shang's attacks. Whenever the Mana Shield was moved to the side, its retreating speed from Shang slowed down, allowing him to

between

WHOOOOM!

of earth suddenly appeared between the two,

saw the wave, a bit of surprise appeared inside his

wave is cutting off my Spirit Sense. I

attacks, but this time, they

the wave, and Shang's Spirit Sense could finally

immediately blasted to

SHING!

cloaked in green Mana, shot past Shang at speeds that should be absolutely impossible for an Earth Affinity Mage to

already expected that attack, he would have been

eyes when he saw that Shang had

the Mage's place, he would have done the same thing. Make the opponent expect one attack with a certain speed, but then

Shang had immediately assumed that the Mage would choose the best course of action based on

known

how the Mage would manage to release such a fast attack,

seeing the attack, Shang realized

enough, this is

Mana, and the way

the Concept

knew the same

main Concept is probably some kind of connection to the ground. The wave is humongous, and moving the claws that quickly through the Earth also

Base, a Concept that allows them to control the Earth around them with incredible skill as long as they have physical

with

blink of an

of the Mage had also failed since Shang had already seen

managed to avoid the attack, they would have moved to a place where there was no hole inside the Earth Wall. At that point, the Earth Wall would hit

then

he released more Blasts, and the Mage had to use another

and would exhaust the Mage's Mana by

his opponent had used Mana Step, a fire appeared in