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 wanted to use Reflection, but he just couldn't

was simply not powerful enough

changed Reflection

began to burn with black

black

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in front of

TCHIIIIIIII!

blown apart, and a wave of destructive

Sword cut apart the black

Most of it.

the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast

terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness

Shang's right

him suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing

nearing his peak again, and the healing

was Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's strongest

tried to poison 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

worked on pure

still poison

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

reached its peak, he immediately pulled it

Star Shatter!

block the next attack, and this was

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

BANG!

thin, black streak destroyed the wave

flew past Star

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his armor exploding into

BANG!

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

Mana stopped coming from his armor since it

life energy and Mana to recover,

BANG!

loud collision reverberated

had hit Susan's Mana

frowned and looked at

speeds, and

saw that, his

BANG!