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, but

realized that they couldn't block all of Shang's attacks, they stopped and looked at him with venom in their

SHING!

Mana Step to arrive

the same Spell again to attack

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

wanted to slap Shang away for his disrespect

saw the Mage getting close

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

thrown back with incredible force and

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

BANG! BANG!

hit their Mana Shield, and their Mana dropped at

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

fought a physical

they

they decided to

instant, they appeared a

WHOOOOM!

had

was like the two of them hadn't

BANG!

Shield cracked, and an instant later,

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

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

a long black streak in Shang's

black streak had led from Shang's original spot to his current

one of Shang's new techniques for his

used Mana Step quite often in the past,

unless there was some kind of fringe case

Affinity into his fights, he had found new

technique was created by supplementing Mana Step's significant

of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now only

but this technique left a black trail behind