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.

wanted to use Reflection, but he just couldn't muster enough

not powerful enough

Reflection to Refraction at the

to burn

wave of black

his swing and held his Great Sword

TCHIIIIIIII!

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

a stone in front of a blowtorch, Sword cut apart

Most of it.

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

vanished, and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana entering his body, consuming

Shang's right eye

Mana inside of him suddenly

was nearing his peak again, and the healing water he was

one of Susan's strongest

also tried to poison them with Darkness. Without that second

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

this only worked on

Affinities would still poison him

caught on fire again and swung upward,

its peak, he immediately

Star Shatter!

he couldn't block the next attack, and this was the

threw his Saber, he immediately released three Blasts

BANG!

black streak destroyed

flew past Star

CRACK!

chest, his armor

BANG!

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

water and Mana stopped coming from his

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

BANG!

sound of a loud collision

hit Susan's Mana

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

moved with imperceptible speeds, and she

saw that, his face

BANG!