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.

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

attacks,

SHING!

a Mana Step to arrive

they used the same Spell again to attack

Spell created some kind of forcefield that mimicked the shape of a gigantic,

to slap Shang away for

Mage getting close to him, his expression didn't

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

back with incredible force and lost nearly 20%

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

BANG! BANG!

hit their Mana Shield, and their

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

had never fought a physical

they

decided to use

they appeared a kilometer away from

WHOOOOM!

had also appeared

the two of them hadn't

BANG!

and an instant later, the Mage was cut into

deep breath and refilled his exhausted life energy with his Mana. Then, he

to refill all his wasted resources, but the waiting time between levels would

a long black streak in Shang's inner world started to

streak had led from Shang's original spot to

new techniques for

had used Mana Step quite often in the past, and it had

Shang wouldn't use Mana Step anymore unless there was some

into his fights, he had found new ways

by supplementing Mana Step's significant Mana

technique was nearly identical to Mana Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now only

this technique left a black trail behind due to the life energy that had been turned