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.

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

now, Shang only concentrated on

battle would be

attack until he could perform that one

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

time inside the Caves never seemed

were always the same beasts,

Everything was always identical.

day also made the area feel even more

just

He just continued swinging.

more time passed, more and more of his attacks

but eventually, Shang managed to

that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated

Everything was perfect.

a

step is complete. Two more to

grabbed his Great Sword and

on actually moving targets that also

opponent was a beast at the

powerful as

very different from just attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back

hours of training against about 50 Initial True Path Stage

he would need these beasts again when it was time for his next State to

Stage beasts, Shang went to

things became much

definitely more powerful than the beasts, but he needed to switch attacks very often while preparing a different one,

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

Elemental Mana made it harder

it took Shang

even left the Caves and went to the Crater during the

dried up, and Shang had essentially already fought against every single Early True Path Stage beast inside the entire

just like the Caves, the Crater also had basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't being interrupted during his

Early True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but

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

underestimated the impact of variety

beasts in the Crater for a