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

body was simply not powerful enough to reflect Susan's

that, Shang changed Reflection to

burn with black fire, and

black fire shot at

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in front

TCHIIIIIIII!

of fire was blown apart, and

front of a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the black energy, resulting in

Most of it.

Sword State wasn't as wide as the Colossal Sword State, the sides

and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of

Shang's right eye

inside of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana,

his peak again, and

one of

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

life that he had been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would

only worked on pure

would still poison him

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

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

Star Shatter!

block the next attack, and this

Saber, he immediately released

BANG!

black streak destroyed

it flew past Star

CRACK!

hit Shang's chest, his armor exploding into

BANG!

below the middle of Shang's chest

water and Mana stopped coming from his

use his life energy and Mana to recover, his entire

BANG!

loud collision reverberated

hit

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

and she pointed at

that, his

BANG!