Sword God in a World of Magic

Sword highlighted some things it was feeling during the different attacks, and Shang understood what the Wind Blade Seeds were doing after listening to Sword's results.

When Shang was training, Sword also always gave feedback. Just like when Shang had been at the Soldier Stage, Sword was telling him when a strike felt good or bad.

Shang also felt if attacks were good or bad, but he couldn't be completely accurate.

As the weapon, Sword essentially was a participant, but it could also see the attack from a different angle than Shang.

This made Sword's feedback invaluable.

While Shang had to focus on performing his attacks perfectly, Sword didn't need to do anything and could simply watch everything with all of its focus.

Sword gave the following feedback.

When the same attack was performed, there were always only two different sounds present.

Either the ugly and good one or the good and beautiful one.

There were no combinations of ugly and beautiful.

There were never all three sounds present during one attack, no matter how often it was repeated.

When the ugly and good sounds appeared, Sword always felt that the attacks with the good sounds were better.

When the good and beautiful sounds appeared, Sword always felt that the attacks with the beautiful sounds were better.

Now came the interesting part.

When the attacks with the ugly and good sounds produced an attack with a good sound, it felt not better nor worse than when the attacks with the good and beautiful sounds produced a beautiful sound.

The same was true the other way around. When the attacks with ugly and good sounds produced an ugly sound, it felt just as bad as when the attacks with good and beautiful sounds produced a good sound.

"This means that great performance increases the level of the sound by one," Shang said.

"Correct," Sword answered. "However, the absence of all three sounds appearing at once and the ugly and beautiful sound never appearing during the same set of attacks means that there is an additional component, and that component is not influenced by how well you perform the attack."

Shang nodded. "There must be something that I can't control that impacts the result of the attack."

"But what could that be?" Shang asked.

"I don't know," Sword answered, "but it has to do something with you. I don't do anything during all of your attacks, and I specifically stopped myself from doing anything while we were testing."

Shang furrowed his brows.

As a living weapon, Sword could help with a couple of attacks, but Shang didn't think that whatever Sword was doing had any impact on the performance of the attack.

was just a weapon, and Shang

more testing,"

Shang nodded.

that, Shang performed one attack until he got the better sound, switched to another

he wanted the time between the two attacks he was comparing to be

to create the good sound, switch, and then immediately

some

far more difficult than he

come to a conclusion, and at that

sound completely

consumed

be

there was no variation inside the different levels of

always

one always sounded the

beautiful one always sounded the

horrible Shang performed the attack,

attack was either

just like this for two

still couldn't

his sword, Shang had to take

of his

took a deep breath and closed his

hated waiting

was nothing he could

run out of

could still perform one of the attacks since that attack wasn't as strenuous on that part of the body as the other one, but without the second

a second," Shang suddenly said as he opened his

looked at his right arm with furrowed

strenuous?' Shang thought with

triceps to stretch the arm, which puts strain on my tendon, and my tendon is also

of the two attacks doesn't feel as strenuous as

test

his body to recover, Shang continued doing the same thing, but this time, he was paying special attention

swinging his sword as he paid close attention

Wind Blade Seed vanished again, but that

the attacks didn't

sword for another day, his body getting injured more and

Wind Blade Seed, Shang entered a special

entire mind was only focused on the place where

saw it moving one

saw it moving the

it moving one