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.

access to this kind of Spell, but only the prideful and arrogant ones actually used it. They believed that they were good enough to block all the

of Shang's attacks, they

SHING!

Step to arrive directly in front of

the

of forcefield that mimicked

wanted to slap Shang away for his disrespect of

Shang saw the Mage getting close to

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

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

being thrown back by their opponent's attack, Shang had

BANG!

fast barrage of attacks hit their Mana Shield,

second, the Mage fell into a panic, and they didn't know how they should

had never fought a physical fighter

were they supposed to

decided to use Mana

they appeared a kilometer away

WHOOOOM!

had

two of

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Mana Shield cracked, and an instant later, the Mage was cut

took a deep breath and refilled his exhausted life energy with his Mana.

time, there wasn't enough to refill all his wasted resources, but the waiting time between

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

Shang's original

Shang's new techniques for his Long

the past, and it had saved his life

unless there was some kind of fringe case

Affinity into his fights,

Mana Step's significant

Mana Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside

traces, but this technique left a black trail behind due to the life energy that had been