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.

use Reflection, but he just couldn't muster

simply not powerful enough to reflect Susan's

Reflection to Refraction

began to burn with black fire, and Shang swung

black fire shot at

upwards, Shang stopped his swing and held his Great

TCHIIIIIIII!

fire was blown apart, and

front of a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the black energy, resulting in most of it missing

Most of it.

the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast

powerful force of Darkness Mana

right eye

him suddenly

was nearing his peak again, and

was Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's

Darkness. Without that second component, Shang wouldn't have been able to heal his body this

poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would be

only worked on pure

still poison

his sword caught on fire again and swung upward, releasing another

he immediately pulled

Star Shatter!

next attack, and this was

immediately released three Blasts from

BANG!

streak destroyed the wave

it flew past

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his

BANG!

below the middle of Shang's chest exploded and shot into the

coming from

his teeth and use his life energy and Mana to recover,

BANG!

of a loud collision reverberated

hit Susan's

15% of her Mana vanish, she frowned and looked at the Long Sword touching her Mana

and she pointed at Sword with

saw that, his

BANG!