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 Mana and life energy to

body was simply not powerful enough to

Reflection to Refraction at

to burn with black

of black fire shot

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in

TCHIIIIIIII!

apart, and

cut 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 hit Shang's shoulders and parts of his torso

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

right eye

Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed

his peak again, and the

was Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's

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

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 pure

Affinities would still poison

his sword caught on fire

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

Star Shatter!

next attack,

threw his Saber, he immediately

BANG!

black streak destroyed the wave of

it flew past

CRACK!

his armor

BANG!

below the middle of Shang's

coming from

his life energy and Mana

BANG!

of a loud

hit Susan's Mana

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

with imperceptible speeds, and she pointed

Shang saw that,

BANG!