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.

used it. They believed that they were good enough to block all the

Mage realized that they couldn't block all of Shang's attacks, they stopped

SHING!

to arrive

same time, they used the same Spell again

of forcefield that mimicked the shape

Shang away

Shang saw the Mage getting close to him, his expression

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

force and lost nearly 20% of their

they were still being thrown back by their opponent's attack,

BANG! BANG!

incomprehensibly fast barrage of attacks hit their Mana Shield, and their Mana

panic, and they didn't know how they should react to such an

fought a

were they supposed to

to

appeared a

WHOOOOM!

had

two of them

BANG! BANG!

instant later, the Mage was

a deep breath and refilled his exhausted life energy with his Mana. Then, he absorbed the corpse

there wasn't enough to refill all his wasted resources, but the waiting time between levels would give Shang enough time to return

streak in Shang's inner world

had led from Shang's

was one of Shang's new techniques for his Long

used Mana Step quite often in the past,

anymore unless there was

Light Affinity into his fights,

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

to Mana Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now

Step left no traces, but this technique left a black trail behind due to the