Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang only kept swinging his sword.

He wasn't sure how long he had been swinging his sword, but he knew it had been a long time, judging by how many resources he had consumed.

As more and more time passed, Shang's mind seemed to vanish.

He didn't think about Jerald anymore.

He didn't think about the Kingdom anymore.

There was just nothing.

Only Shang and Sword existed.

Shang had truly transformed into a machine that only performed one task over and over again.

Time stopped mattering.

The world stopped mattering.

During his long and isolated training in the Peak Commander Stage, Shang had still been contacted by Jerald time and time again with news. Jerald had always kept him up to date with the developments of the Kingdom.

But now, nobody was contacting Shang, and he was thankful for that.

The fewer distractions there were, the better.

Only his power was important.

Everything else was unimportant.

Shang only focused on the feedback of the Wind Blade Seed.

As more time passed, more and more of the good sounds appeared.

Shang was making progress.

Eventually, Shang managed to perfect one of the swings.

Every time he used the attack, he would hear the sound signifying that he had succeeded.

It was a lot of work to get this down just right, but Shang knew that there was more he needed to do.

to unleash a perfect attack during practice was one thing. Doing

only concentrated on being able to

would be a task for

attack until he

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

Caves never seemed to

same beasts, the same walls, the same

Everything was always identical.

absence of night and day also made the area feel

Shang just

He just continued swinging.

more time passed, more and more of his

long it had taken him, but eventually, Shang managed to perfect even his last attack in his

accomplishing that, Shang took a deep breath

Everything was perfect.

a

first step is complete. Two

and walked deeper into

to practice his attacks on actually moving targets

beast at the Initial True

just as powerful as Shang, which

very different from just attacking nothing, Shang

took him several hours of training against about 50 Initial True Path Stage

Shang didn't kill all of them. After all, he would need these beasts again when it was time for

True Path Stage beasts, Shang went to the Early True

things became much

powerful than the beasts, but he needed to switch attacks

now needed to actually use his Ice Element in attacks, making it even more difficult

Mana movement was identical, with or without using Elemental Mana. However, the addition of Elemental Mana made

it took

and went to the Crater during the

Caves had dried up, and Shang had essentially already fought

had basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't being interrupted during his

Path Stage beasts

enough, Shang noticed that the performance of his attacks had become even worse after fighting the new

think I've underestimated the impact of variety

continued fighting the different beasts in the Crater for a long