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.

practice was one thing. Doing the same thing during a chaotic battle was something

Shang only concentrated on being able

would

until he could perform that one perfectly

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

time inside the Caves never

were always the same beasts, the same walls, the

Everything was always identical.

also made the area feel even more isolated

just

He just continued swinging.

more time passed, more and more

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

deep breath and repeated

Everything was perfect.

a moment,

step is complete. Two

his Great Sword and walked deeper into the

had to practice his attacks on actually moving

first opponent was a beast at the Initial

had a body just as powerful

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

hours of training

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

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

became much more

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

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

Elemental Mana made it harder to control. After all, there was

it took

Shang even left the Caves and went to the Crater during the

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

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

the Early True Path Stage beasts in

that the performance of his attacks had become even worse after fighting the new

underestimated the impact of variety on my performance,'

continued fighting the different beasts in the Crater for a