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.

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

now, Shang only concentrated on being able to

a battle would be a task for the

he could perform that one perfectly as

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

time inside the Caves

same beasts, the same walls, the same

Everything was always identical.

made the area feel even more isolated from

just kept

He just continued swinging.

more and

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

accomplishing that, Shang took a deep breath and repeated every single

Everything was perfect.

a

first step is complete. Two more to

grabbed his Great Sword and walked

to practice his attacks on actually moving targets that also struck

opponent was a beast

beast had a body just as powerful as Shang, which gave him good

just attacking nothing, Shang managed to get back into his flow rather

hours of training against

all, he would need these beasts again when it

Initial True Path Stage beasts, Shang went

became much

than the beasts, but he needed to switch attacks very

Element in attacks, making it even more difficult to unleash everything

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

it took Shang much

and went to the Crater during the end

and Shang had essentially already fought

like the Caves, the Crater also had basically no visitors, which meant that Shang wasn't being

True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but he still

enough, Shang noticed that the performance of his attacks had become even worse after

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

fighting the different beasts in the