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.

attack during practice was one thing.

for now, Shang only concentrated on

attack during a battle would be

until he could perform that one perfectly as

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

inside the Caves never

the same beasts, the same walls, the same

Everything was always identical.

also made the area feel even more isolated from

Shang just

He just continued swinging.

more time passed, more and more of

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

accomplishing that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated every single

Everything was perfect.

a

is complete. Two

his Great Sword and walked deeper

attacks on actually moving targets that also struck

opponent was a beast at the Initial True

as powerful as Shang, which gave him

attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back into his flow rather

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

the Initial True Path Stage beasts, Shang

time, things became

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

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

However, the addition of Elemental Mana made it harder to control. After all, there

it took

went to the Crater during the

of beasts in the Caves had dried up, and Shang had essentially already fought against every single Early True Path

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

True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but he still avoided killing

of his attacks had become even worse after fighting the

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

in the Crater