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

was simply not powerful enough to

of that, Shang changed Reflection to Refraction at the last

using Refraction, Sword began to burn with

of black fire shot at

stopped his swing and held his Great Sword in front of

TCHIIIIIIII!

fire was blown apart, and a wave of destructive

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

Most of it.

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

force of Darkness Mana entering his body, consuming his life

right eye

the Darkness Mana inside of him suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing his

instant, Shang was nearing his peak again, and the healing

one of Susan's strongest

also tried to poison them with Darkness. Without that second component, Shang wouldn't have been able to heal his

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 Darkness Mana into

only worked

would still

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

its peak, he immediately

Star Shatter!

the next attack, and this was the best

he threw his Saber, he immediately

BANG!

black streak destroyed the wave of

it flew past

CRACK!

chest, his armor exploding

BANG!

Shang's

stopped coming from his

grit his teeth and use his life energy

BANG!

of a loud collision

hit Susan's Mana

Mana vanish, she frowned and

moved with imperceptible speeds, and she pointed at Sword with

Shang saw that, his

BANG!