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.

perfect attack during practice was one thing. Doing the same thing during a chaotic battle was something

concentrated on being able to

attack during a battle would

he could perform

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

Caves never seemed to

same beasts, the same walls, the same

Everything was always identical.

night and day also made the area feel

Shang just

He just continued swinging.

more time passed, more and

eventually, Shang managed to perfect even his last attack in his Great

deep breath and repeated every single

Everything was perfect.

just a

first step is complete. Two more to

Sword and

attacks on

opponent was a beast at the

as powerful as Shang, which

different from just attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back

took him several hours of training against about 50 Initial

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

dealing with the Initial True Path Stage beasts,

things became much more

but he needed to switch attacks very often while preparing a different one, completely

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

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

took Shang

Shang even left the Caves and went to the Crater during the end

Shang had essentially already fought against every single Early

like the Caves, the Crater also had basically no visitors, which meant that

Stage beasts in the

the performance of his attacks had become

think I've underestimated the impact of variety on my performance,'

continued fighting the different beasts in