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.

unleash a perfect attack during practice was one thing. Doing the same thing during a chaotic battle

only concentrated on being able to perform

the attack during a battle would be a

focused on the next attack until he could

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

inside the Caves never seemed

were always the same beasts, the same

Everything was always identical.

of night and day also made the area feel

just

He just continued swinging.

more and more of his

had taken him, but eventually, Shang managed to perfect even his last

that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated

Everything was perfect.

a

first step is complete. Two more

Great Sword and walked deeper into

had to practice his attacks on actually moving targets that also struck

was a beast at

powerful

attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back into his

hours of training against about 50 Initial True Path Stage

Shang didn't kill all of them. After all, he would need these beasts again

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

things became much more

definitely more powerful than the beasts, but he needed to switch attacks very often

use his Ice Element in attacks, making it even

with or without using Elemental Mana. However, the addition of Elemental Mana made it harder to control. After all, there was a lot more power behind the second

took

Shang even left the Caves and went to the Crater during

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

basically no visitors,

True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but he still

of his attacks

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

continued fighting the different beasts in the Crater for