Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang knew that he couldn't possibly beat Susan, but that also wasn't his goal.

Susan was the biggest issue for Jerald, and as long as Shang managed to distract Susan for a while, Jerald would be the one fighting her.

Even though Shang was using Distortion to approach her, he could feel that Susan knew exactly where he was, which didn't surprise him.

Susan was a Peak High Mage, and she even had a Darkness Affinity. Darkness Affinities dealt with a lot of subterfuge and illusions, making them similar to Light Affinities.

For a moment, the two of them only looked at each other.

Then, Susan's shoulder moved just a tiny bit.

When fighting another person physically, looking at the shoulders was the best way to see when an attack was coming.

As soon as Shang saw the slight movement, he immediately summoned all his Mana and life energy.

Shang knew that he wasn't fast enough to react to Spells after they were already cast, which meant that Shang had to guess what kind of Spell Susan was going to use and act appropriately.

It was a guessing game for Shang.

BANG!

Just as Shang put his sword in front of him, a black streak hit it.

The black streak was thin and barely visible, but the power inside it was horrifying.

As the black streak hit Sword, Shang's entire body atrophied to a terrifying degree as he summoned more and more Light Mana.

The spot where the streak and Sword touched started to shine brightly.

Half of Shang's body mass vanished.

He barely looked like a skeleton with some skin.

Shang gritted his teeth.

Then, he grunted and pushed his sword to the side.

CLING!

The streak bounced off Sword and shot to the side, missing Shang.

Shang had to take a deep breath after that.

Reflection, but he just couldn't muster enough Mana and life

powerful enough to reflect Susan's

changed Reflection to Refraction at the

burn

of black fire shot at

swing and

TCHIIIIIIII!

and

a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the black energy, resulting

Most of it.

wasn't as wide as the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast still hit Shang's shoulders and parts of his torso and

and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of

right

Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing

instant, Shang was nearing his peak again, and the healing water

Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's

also tried to poison them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang wouldn't have been able to

pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would be able to transform this kind of Darkness Mana into Light Mana, but he had actually never tried

worked

still poison him

caught on fire again and swung upward,

immediately pulled it

Star Shatter!

next

he threw his Saber, he immediately released three Blasts from his

BANG!

thin, black streak destroyed the

flew past Star

CRACK!

hit Shang's chest, his

BANG!

Shang's chest exploded and shot into the

stopped coming from his armor since it had been

use his life energy and Mana to recover, his

BANG!

a loud collision reverberated

had hit Susan's

felt 15% of her Mana vanish, she frowned and looked

imperceptible speeds, and

Shang saw that, his

BANG!