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.

was one thing. Doing the same thing during a chaotic battle

now, Shang only concentrated on

a battle would be

on the next attack until he could perform that

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

the Caves

the same beasts, the same

Everything was always identical.

night and day also made the area feel even

Shang just

He just continued swinging.

more and more of his attacks became

it had taken him, but eventually, Shang managed to perfect even

accomplishing that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated every

Everything was perfect.

just a moment, Shang

first step is complete. Two more

Great Sword and walked deeper into the

practice his attacks on actually moving targets

opponent was a beast at

body just as powerful as Shang, which gave him

different from just attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back into his

several hours of training against about 50

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

True Path Stage beasts, Shang

time, things became much more

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

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

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

time, it took

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

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

Crater also had basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't

Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but

attacks had become even worse after fighting the

the impact of variety on my performance,' he

the different beasts in the Crater for a