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 enough Mana

was simply not powerful enough to reflect Susan's casual

changed Reflection to Refraction at

burn with black fire, and

wave of black

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in

TCHIIIIIIII!

fire was blown apart, and

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

Most of it.

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

immediately vanished, and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana entering

Shang's right eye

of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing his

was nearing his peak again, and the healing water

Abyss Cometh, one of

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

had been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would be able to transform this kind of Darkness Mana into Light Mana, but he had

worked on

Affinities would still poison him

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

its peak, he immediately pulled it back and

Star Shatter!

block the next attack, and this was the

Saber, he immediately released three Blasts from

BANG!

destroyed the wave of

flew past

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his armor

BANG!

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

coming from his armor since it had been

life energy and Mana to recover, his entire body

BANG!

sound of a loud collision reverberated

Shatter had hit

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

fingers moved with imperceptible speeds, and she pointed

saw that,

BANG!