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.

it was just a weapon, and Shang was the one swinging

more testing,"

Shang nodded.

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

perform 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

the good sound, switch, and then immediately produce the

be some

far more difficult

conclusion, and at that point, even the sound the Wind Blade

the sound completely

immediately consumed the

his Great Sword State first since he wouldn't be

now, Shang also realized that there was no variation inside the different levels

good sound always

one always sounded

beautiful one always

Shang performed the attack,

either perfect or not

training just like this for

they still couldn't find

continuously swinging his

side of his right lower arm

a deep breath and closed

hated waiting

was nothing he

would run out of

could still perform one of the attacks since that attack wasn't as strenuous on that part of the body as

a second," Shang suddenly said as he

his right arm with furrowed

Shang thought with

which puts strain on my tendon, and my tendon is also

one of the two attacks doesn't feel as

test

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

continued swinging his sword as he paid close attention to what happened to his tendon

Wind Blade Seed vanished again, but that was no

the attacks

continued swinging his sword for another day, his

of the Wind Blade Seed, Shang entered a

mind was only focused on

saw it moving one

moving

saw it