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

for now, Shang only concentrated on being able to perform

attack during a battle would be a task for the

he could perform that one perfectly

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

the Caves never

were always the same beasts, the same walls, the

Everything was always identical.

day also made the area feel even more

Shang just kept

He just continued swinging.

passed, more and more of his

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

Shang took a deep breath and repeated

Everything was perfect.

a moment,

step is complete. Two more to

grabbed his Great Sword and walked

his attacks on actually moving targets that

beast at

as powerful as Shang, which gave

different from just attacking nothing, Shang managed to get

took him several hours of training against

of them. After all, he would need these beasts again when it

Stage beasts,

became

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

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

Mana made it harder to control.

time, it took

left the Caves and went

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

also had basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't being interrupted during his

Stage beasts in the Crater, but he still avoided killing

his attacks had

I've underestimated the impact of variety on

continued fighting the different beasts in the Crater