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.

ones actually used it. They believed that they were good enough to block all the Spells with this Spell, but that very often

couldn't block all of Shang's attacks, they stopped and looked at him with venom in

SHING!

a Mana Step to

same time, they used the same Spell

forcefield that mimicked the shape of a gigantic, illusory

to slap Shang away for his

getting close to him, his

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

force and lost

opponent's attack, Shang had already arrived in front

BANG!

of attacks hit their Mana

and they

had never fought

were they supposed

to use Mana

they appeared a kilometer away from

WHOOOOM!

Shang had

was like the two of them hadn't

BANG! BANG!

instant later, the Mage

energy with his Mana. Then, he absorbed the corpse

waiting time between levels

the wheel returned, a long black streak in Shang's inner

led from Shang's original spot to

of Shang's new techniques for

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

from this point on, Shang wouldn't use Mana Step anymore unless there was some

Light Affinity into his fights, he had

created by supplementing Mana Step's significant

this technique was nearly identical to Mana Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now only used 20% of the Mana in his mind and about 5%

black trail behind due to the life energy that had been turned