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.

Reflection, but he just couldn't muster enough Mana and life energy to make

not powerful enough to reflect Susan's

Reflection to Refraction

using Refraction, Sword began to burn with black

wave of black

his swing and held his Great Sword in

TCHIIIIIIII!

apart, and a wave

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

Most of it.

the sides of the blast still

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

right eye

inside of him suddenly transformed

his peak again, and

Cometh, one of Susan's

target's body but also tried to poison them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang

Shang's life that he had been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that

this only worked on

still

caught on fire again

Saber reached its peak, he immediately pulled

Star Shatter!

he couldn't block the next attack, and this was the best

threw his Saber, he immediately released three Blasts from his feet to

BANG!

black streak destroyed the

it flew past Star

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his armor exploding into

BANG!

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

water and Mana stopped coming from his armor since it had

use his life energy and Mana to recover, his entire body regrowing

BANG!

loud

hit Susan's

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

speeds, and she pointed at Sword with

that, his

BANG!