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.

use Reflection, but he just couldn't

simply not powerful enough to reflect Susan's

changed Reflection

Sword began to burn

of black fire

and held his

TCHIIIIIIII!

fire was blown apart, and a wave of destructive black

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

Most of it.

Great Sword State wasn't as wide as the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast still hit

parts immediately vanished, and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana entering his body, consuming his

right eye

suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing his

nearing his peak again, and the

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

been the first time in Shang's life that he had been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would be able to transform this kind of

only worked on

still

Shang, his sword caught on fire again and

immediately pulled it back and threw

Star Shatter!

the next attack, and this was the

as he threw his Saber, he immediately released three

BANG!

streak destroyed the

flew past

CRACK!

hit Shang's chest, his armor

BANG!

Shang's chest exploded and shot

and Mana stopped coming from his

use his life energy and Mana

BANG!

sound of a loud

had hit Susan's

15% of her Mana vanish, she frowned and looked

fingers moved with imperceptible speeds, and she

Shang saw that, his

BANG!