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.

only the prideful and arrogant ones actually used it. They believed

all of Shang's attacks, they stopped

SHING!

Mana Step to arrive directly in

time, they used the same Spell again

forcefield that mimicked the shape of

wanted to slap Shang away for his disrespect

Mage getting close to him, his expression didn't

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

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

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

BANG! BANG!

hit their Mana Shield,

into a panic, and they didn't know

never fought a physical

were they supposed

they decided to use

an instant, they appeared a kilometer away from

WHOOOOM!

Shang had also appeared

like the two

BANG! BANG!

instant later, the

energy with

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

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

had led from Shang's original spot to his current

was one of Shang's new

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

anymore unless there was some kind of fringe case where it would actually

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

created by supplementing Mana Step's significant

this technique was nearly identical to Mana Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside

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