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

Shang only concentrated on being

during a battle would be a task for

on the next attack until he could perform that one perfectly as

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

Caves never seemed

the same beasts, the same walls, the same

Everything was always identical.

made the area feel even

Shang just

He just continued swinging.

time passed, more and more of his attacks became

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

that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated every

Everything was perfect.

just a moment, Shang

first step is complete. Two

grabbed his Great Sword and walked

practice his attacks on actually moving targets

was a beast at the Initial True

just as powerful as Shang, which gave him good

very different from just attacking nothing,

training against about 50 Initial True

these

dealing with the Initial True Path Stage beasts, Shang went to the Early True Path Stage

time, things became much more

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

actually use his Ice Element in attacks, making it

using Elemental Mana. However, the addition of Elemental Mana made it harder to control. After all, there was a lot more power behind the

it took Shang much

Shang even left the Caves and went to the Crater

variety 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

the Early True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but he

that the performance of his attacks had become even worse after

I've underestimated the impact of variety on

continued fighting the different beasts in the