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.

he just couldn't muster enough Mana and

body was simply not powerful enough

changed Reflection to Refraction

using Refraction, Sword began to burn with black fire,

black fire shot at

his swing and held his Great

TCHIIIIIIII!

wave of fire was blown apart, and a wave

cut apart the black energy, resulting in most of

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

force of Darkness Mana

Shang's right eye

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

was nearing his peak again,

one

destroy the target's body but also tried to 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 Light

this only worked on

would still poison

Shang, his sword caught on

peak, he immediately

Star Shatter!

next attack, and

as he threw his Saber, he immediately

BANG!

destroyed the wave

it flew past Star

CRACK!

his armor exploding

BANG!

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

water and Mana stopped coming from his armor since

his life energy and Mana to

BANG!

a loud collision reverberated throughout

had hit Susan's

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

imperceptible speeds, and she pointed at Sword with two

Shang saw that, his face

BANG!