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

of Shang's attacks, they stopped and looked at him

SHING!

used a Mana Step to arrive directly in front of

same time, they used the

Spell created some kind of forcefield that mimicked the shape

to slap Shang away for

the Mage getting close to

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

incredible force and lost nearly

their opponent's attack, Shang had

BANG!

attacks hit their Mana Shield,

they didn't know how

never fought a physical fighter

they supposed

to

instant, they appeared a

WHOOOOM!

Shang had also appeared

two of them hadn't

BANG! BANG! BANG!

an instant later, the Mage was cut

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

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

long black streak in Shang's inner world

streak had led from Shang's original

new techniques for his Long Sword

often in the past, and it had

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

found new ways to incorporate his Light Affinity into his fights, he had found new ways

created by supplementing Mana

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

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