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 muster enough

body was simply not powerful enough

of that, Shang changed Reflection to

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

black

stopped his swing and

TCHIIIIIIII!

black wave of fire was blown apart, and a wave of

a blowtorch, Sword cut apart the

Most of it.

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

terrifyingly powerful force of Darkness Mana entering his body, consuming his life

right eye

suddenly transformed into Light Mana, healing

instant, Shang was nearing his peak again,

was Abyss Cometh, one of

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

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 Darkness Mana into Light Mana, but he had

this only worked on

still

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

reached its peak, he immediately pulled it back

Star Shatter!

he couldn't block the next attack, and

his Saber, he immediately

BANG!

black streak destroyed the wave of

flew

CRACK!

chest, his armor exploding into

BANG!

middle of Shang's chest exploded and shot into the

water and Mana stopped coming from his

energy and Mana to recover, his

BANG!

a loud collision reverberated throughout

Shatter had hit Susan's

she frowned and looked at the Long Sword touching her Mana

and

that, his face

BANG!