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 was the

need more testing," Sword

Shang nodded.

one attack until he got the better sound, switched to another attack until he got the better sound, and

the attacks perfectly, but he wanted the time between the two attacks he was comparing to be as short as possible. That was why he

switch, and then immediately

some kind of

be far more

several hours, Shang couldn't come to a conclusion, and at that point, even the sound the Wind Blade Seed produced became quieter and

the sound completely

consumed the next

been to train his Great Sword State first since he wouldn't be running out of sparring partners anytime soon,

that there was no variation inside the

always

one always sounded

always sounded

performed the attack,

was either perfect or not

like this for two entire

still couldn't find the

of continuously swinging his

outer side of his right lower arm felt

a deep breath and closed his

waiting

there was nothing

one would run out

wasn't as strenuous on that part

said as he opened

he looked at his right arm with

strenuous?' Shang thought

strain on my tendon, and my tendon is also

it possible that one of the two attacks doesn't feel as strenuous

need to test

for his body to recover, Shang continued doing the same thing, but this time,

he paid close attention to what happened

the Wind Blade Seed vanished

of the attacks didn't matter

day,

the sound of the Wind Blade Seed, Shang entered a special

only focused on the place where his tendon

saw it

it moving

it