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. Doing the same thing during a chaotic battle was

now, Shang only concentrated on being able to perform

a battle would be

next attack until he could perform that

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

Caves

beasts, the same walls, the

Everything was always identical.

made the area feel even more

just kept

He just continued swinging.

more and more of

eventually, Shang managed to perfect even his last attack

accomplishing that, Shang took a deep breath and

Everything was perfect.

a moment,

complete. Two more

and walked

to practice his attacks on actually moving targets that also struck

beast at the

beast had a body just as powerful as Shang,

was very different from just attacking nothing, Shang

several hours of training against about 50 Initial True Path

of them. After all, he would need these beasts again when it was time for his next State to

Path Stage beasts, Shang went to the Early True Path Stage

things became much

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

actually use his Ice Element in attacks,

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

left the Caves and went to

in the Caves had dried up, and Shang had essentially already fought against every single

basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't being interrupted

fighting against the Early True Path Stage beasts in the Crater,

attacks had become even worse after fighting the

underestimated the impact of variety on my

different beasts in the Crater for a long