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.

prideful and arrogant ones actually used it. They believed that they were good enough to block all the Spells with this Spell,

attacks, they

SHING!

Mana Step to arrive directly in front

the same time, they used the

kind of forcefield that

wanted to slap Shang

saw the Mage getting close to him, his expression didn't

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

with incredible force and lost nearly 20%

thrown back by their opponent's attack, Shang had already arrived in

BANG! BANG!

of attacks hit their Mana

a panic, and they didn't

fought a

were they supposed

decided to use

they appeared

WHOOOOM!

had

was like the two of

BANG! BANG!

cracked, and an instant later, the

his exhausted life energy with his Mana. Then, he absorbed the corpse and regained some

but the waiting time between levels would give Shang enough time to return to

long black streak in Shang's

led from Shang's original

was one of Shang's new

often in the past, and it had saved his

point on, Shang wouldn't use Mana Step anymore unless there was some kind of fringe case where

Light Affinity into his fights, he had

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

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

left a black trail behind due to the life energy