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.

to use Reflection, but he just couldn't muster enough

powerful enough to

changed Reflection to Refraction at the last

using Refraction, Sword began to burn with black fire, and Shang swung

of black fire

swinging upwards, Shang stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in

TCHIIIIIIII!

was blown apart, and a wave of destructive black energy hit

blowtorch, Sword cut apart the black energy,

Most of it.

wasn't as wide as the Colossal Sword State, the sides of the blast still hit Shang's shoulders

parts immediately vanished, and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force

Shang's right

Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed into

was nearing his peak again, and

Abyss Cometh, one of

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

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

worked

would still

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

reached its peak, he immediately pulled it back

Star Shatter!

block the next attack, and this was

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

BANG!

thin, black streak destroyed the wave

it flew past Star

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his armor exploding

BANG!

below the middle of Shang's chest

water and Mana stopped coming from his armor since it had been

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

BANG!

loud collision reverberated throughout the

had hit Susan's Mana

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

with imperceptible speeds, and she pointed

Shang saw that, his face

BANG!