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 just couldn't muster enough Mana

body was simply not powerful

that, Shang changed Reflection to Refraction

Refraction, Sword began to burn with

wave of black

Shang stopped his swing and held his Great Sword

TCHIIIIIIII!

apart, and a wave of destructive black

front of a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the

Most of it.

sides of

parts immediately vanished, and Shang felt a terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana

Shang's right

inside of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing

nearing his peak again,

was Abyss Cometh, one of Susan's

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

been poisoned by pure Darkness Mana. He had theorized that he would

this only worked on

still poison

Shang, his sword caught on fire again and swung upward, releasing

its peak, he immediately pulled it back and

Star Shatter!

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

he threw his Saber, he immediately released three

BANG!

streak destroyed

it flew

CRACK!

Shang's chest, his armor exploding into

BANG!

everything below the middle of Shang's chest exploded and

stopped coming from his armor since it had

grit his teeth and use his life energy and Mana to recover, his

BANG!

sound of a loud collision reverberated throughout

had hit Susan's

frowned and looked at the Long Sword touching her

fingers moved with imperceptible speeds, and she

saw that,

BANG!