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.

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

concentrated on

attack during a battle would be a task

until he could perform that one

Then, the next one.

And the next one.

inside the Caves

the same beasts,

Everything was always identical.

night and day also made the area feel even

just kept

He just continued swinging.

passed, more and more of his attacks

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.

just a moment,

first step is complete. Two

Great Sword and walked deeper into

had to practice his attacks on actually moving targets

was a beast at the Initial True Path

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

just attacking nothing, Shang

took him several hours of training against about 50 Initial True

all, he would need these

True Path Stage beasts, Shang went to

became

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

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

identical, with or without using Elemental Mana. However, the addition of Elemental Mana made it harder to control. After all, there was

time, it took

the Caves and went to the Crater during the end

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

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

against the Early True Path Stage beasts in the Crater, but he still avoided

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

think I've underestimated the impact of variety

continued fighting the different beasts in the