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 to

not powerful enough

Reflection to Refraction at the last

Refraction, Sword began to burn with black fire, and

black fire shot

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in

TCHIIIIIIII!

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

a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the black energy, resulting

Most of it.

as the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast still hit Shang's shoulders and parts of

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

Shang's right eye

the Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana,

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

Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's

the target's body but also tried to poison them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang wouldn't have

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

worked on

would still

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

he immediately pulled

Star Shatter!

that he couldn't block the next

Saber, he immediately released three Blasts from

BANG!

thin, black streak destroyed

it flew

CRACK!

his

BANG!

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

coming from his armor since

could only grit his teeth and use his life energy and Mana to recover, his entire body regrowing in an

BANG!

of a loud collision reverberated

hit Susan's

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

moved with imperceptible speeds, and

Shang saw that, his

BANG!