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.

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

not powerful enough to

that, Shang changed Reflection

to burn

wave of black fire shot at

and held

TCHIIIIIIII!

black wave of fire was blown apart, and a wave of destructive black energy hit

apart the black energy, resulting in

Most of it.

the Great Sword State wasn't as wide as the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast still

powerful force of Darkness Mana entering his body, consuming his

Shang's right eye

the Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed into

peak again, and

one

poison them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang

He had theorized that he would be able to transform this kind of Darkness Mana into

only worked on

Affinities would still

sword caught on fire again and swung upward, releasing another wave of

Saber reached its peak, he immediately pulled it back and threw

Star Shatter!

couldn't block the next attack, and this was

immediately released

BANG!

streak destroyed the wave of

it flew past

CRACK!

chest, his armor

BANG!

Shang's chest

coming from his armor

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

BANG!

sound of a loud collision

had hit Susan's

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

and

saw that, his

BANG!