Sword God in a World of Magic

As the Mage died and the cheering returned, Shang took a deep breath.

His body had become smaller by a bit.

His Long Sword State could be likened to a meteorite. It had incomprehensible offensive power, but every single action sapped Shang of his Mana and life energy.

If the offensive power in this State weren't enough, Shang would vanish.

The opponent wouldn't even need to kill him since his own powers would do that for them.

Shang recovered the lost life energy by absorbing the corpse. Luckily, the Mage's meager life energy was just enough to recover the bit of life energy Shang had used.

Shang summoned some more ore and returned Sword to its Saber State before the wheel appeared.

"Level seven: Weak Mid High Mage."

'This is the first time I've reached level seven against the Mages. On my first time, I used Entropy on level six, and during my second time, the fight on level six ended in a draw.'

This represented a major step in Shang's growth.

He could now defeat nearly every single Mage that was one level above him, except for the very select few that had created a similarly impressive path as Shang.

Finally, Shang had reached the power necessary to jump two levels against Mages.

Shang wasn't certain if he could win against a powerful Mid High Mage, but he was confident in fighting an average one.

The wheel stopped, but Shang didn't look at it.

The Affinity of his opponent wouldn't matter.

SHING!

Shang's opponent appeared, and the bell rang.

Shang immediately unleashed Shooting Stars and Hidden Suns, and his opponent summoned Mana Shield and retreated with Mana Step.

Then, Shang's opponent unleashed an illusory hand that swatted some of Shang's attacks to the side, but some of them still got through.

believed that

Shang's attacks, they stopped and looked at him with venom

SHING!

they used a Mana Step to

the same time, they used the same Spell again to attack

that mimicked the shape of

Shang away for his disrespect

getting close to him, his expression didn't

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

Mage was thrown back with incredible force and lost nearly 20%

their opponent's

BANG! BANG!

hit their Mana Shield, and their Mana dropped at

into a panic, and they didn't know how

never fought

were they supposed to

they decided to use

an instant, they appeared a kilometer away from

WHOOOOM!

Shang had also

two of

BANG! BANG!

and an instant

with his Mana. Then, he absorbed the corpse and regained

all his wasted resources, but the waiting time between levels would give Shang enough time to return to

wheel returned, a long black streak in Shang's inner world started to

led from Shang's

Shang's new techniques

had used Mana Step quite often in the past, and it had saved his life many

there was some kind of fringe

incorporate his Light Affinity into his fights,

technique was created by supplementing Mana Step's significant Mana cost with

Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now only used 20% of the

left a black trail behind due to the