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.

Mage had access to this kind of Spell, 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

attacks, they stopped and

SHING!

a Mana Step to arrive directly

time, they used the same Spell again to

of forcefield that mimicked

Mage probably wanted to slap Shang away for his disrespect of hitting

Shang saw the Mage getting close to him,

BOOOOOM!

Star Shatter!

back with incredible force and lost nearly 20% of their

their opponent's attack, Shang had already arrived

BANG! BANG!

attacks hit their Mana Shield, and their Mana dropped

into a panic, and they didn't

fought a

they supposed to

decided to use Mana

an instant, they appeared a kilometer

WHOOOOM!

had also

like the two

BANG!

Mana Shield cracked, and an instant later, the Mage was

with

the waiting time between levels would give

long black streak

had led from Shang's original spot to

new techniques for his Long Sword

the past, and

anymore unless there was some kind of fringe case where it

incorporate his Light Affinity into his fights, he had found

created by supplementing Mana Step's significant

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

behind due to