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.

he wanted to use Reflection, but he just couldn't muster enough Mana and life energy to make it

was simply not powerful enough to reflect

changed Reflection

after using Refraction, Sword began to burn

of black fire

still swinging upwards, Shang stopped his swing and held

TCHIIIIIIII!

blown apart, and a wave of

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

Most of it.

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

felt a terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana

right eye

him suddenly transformed into

an instant, Shang was nearing his peak again, and the healing water he was receiving finished

one of Susan's strongest

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

time in Shang's life that he had been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would be able to transform this kind of Darkness

worked on pure

would still poison

the wave of darkness passed Shang, his sword caught on fire again and

its peak, he immediately

Star Shatter!

he couldn't block the next attack, and

he immediately released three Blasts from his

BANG!

black streak destroyed the wave of

flew past

CRACK!

hit Shang's chest, his armor exploding

BANG!

Shang's chest

water and Mana stopped coming from his armor

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

BANG!

of a loud collision reverberated throughout the

hit Susan's

of her Mana vanish, she frowned and looked at

her fingers moved with imperceptible speeds, and she pointed

that,

BANG!