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

powerful enough to reflect

of that, Shang changed Reflection to Refraction

Sword began to burn with black fire, and Shang swung

of black fire

his swing and held his

TCHIIIIIIII!

and a wave of destructive black energy

Sword cut apart the black energy, resulting in most of

Most of it.

sides of the blast still hit Shang's shoulders and parts of

felt a terrifyingly powerful force

right

him suddenly transformed into Light Mana,

was nearing his peak again,

one of Susan's strongest

them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang wouldn't have been able to heal his body

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

only worked

Affinities would still poison

when the wave of darkness passed Shang, his sword caught on fire again and swung upward, releasing another wave of black

immediately

Star Shatter!

next

he immediately released three Blasts from his feet to jump

BANG!

black streak destroyed

it flew past

CRACK!

chest, his

BANG!

middle of Shang's chest exploded

coming from his armor since

energy and Mana to recover, his

BANG!

sound of a loud collision reverberated throughout

Shatter had hit Susan's Mana

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

moved with imperceptible speeds, and

Shang saw that, his face

BANG!