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.

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

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

SHING!

they used a Mana Step to arrive directly

they used the

created some kind of forcefield that mimicked the shape of a

wanted to slap Shang away for

Shang saw the Mage getting close

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

Mage was thrown back with incredible force and lost nearly

thrown back by their opponent's attack, Shang

BANG! BANG! BANG!

fast barrage of attacks hit their Mana Shield, and their Mana dropped at

a second, the Mage fell into a panic, and they

fought

they supposed to

they decided to

appeared a kilometer away from

WHOOOOM!

Shang had also appeared

the two of

BANG!

and an instant later,

life energy with

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

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

had led from Shang's original spot to his current

new techniques

often in the past, and

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

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

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

Step, but instead of consuming 100% of the Mana inside his mind, Shang now only used 20% of the Mana in his mind

left a black trail behind due to the life energy that