Sword God in a World of Magic

Over the next several years, Shang traveled from one dangerous location to the next, always fighting powerful beasts.

There were so many beasts Shang had never fought against, and he felt his Battle-Strength become more and more powerful.

Eventually, Shang went through every single Zone that the Storm Kingdom owned.

During all this time, Shang always flew through the air at a very high altitude to avoid being seen by others, and he always only trained in locations where no one else was.

It wasn't that Shang was afraid of being seen by others. Shang simply didn't want to get taken out of his training mindset by having a conversation with someone.

Shang finally had time to fully work on his power, and he wouldn't allow anyone to interfere in his training.

After Shang had gone through every single Zone, he decided to do the same thing again while fighting Mid True Path Stage beasts.

Those beasts were already quite powerful, and Shang couldn't fight them without actually using his Elemental powers.

The fights became more stressful, and Shang had to react even quicker than before, making it even harder to perform his attacks perfectly.

Like a machine, Shang went from Zone to Zone to battle all the powerful beasts.

He was no longer seeing his surroundings.

He only saw himself, his power, and his next training dummy.

Everything had turned into a routine, and Shang was barely even conscious while fighting.

It was like his body was completely moving on its own.

Over many years, some people managed to take a glimpse of Shang from afar, but they weren't sure who that was.

Weren't nearly all the True Path Stage warriors at the frontlines?

Was there actually a True Path Stage warrior inside the Storm Kingdom that wasn't involved in the war?

After a while, most people started to doubt when someone told them that they had seen a True Path Stage warrior.

It was common knowledge that the True Path Stage warriors were all stationed at the frontlines.

They must have just been confused.

He didn't know how long it took, but Shang eventually returned to the Caves.

His attacks had become perfect yet again.

Shang did one last

to fight an average Late

wouldn't

he had fought one was during the trial. The average late True Path Stage beast back then had been that ice hedgehog, and Shang

go all out and use all of his States,

not

fight would take a long time, making it very dangerous

Shang wanted to push himself

to be absolutely perfect in absolutely every

already come to terms with the entire philosophy behind advancing inside the

creating the blueprint for their fighting

was only a concept at that point, and it wasn't completely perfected yet. While the Path dictated what the warrior could do, it didn't dictate how well

a ruleset, and the warriors could create several techniques that

every single performance

one

also why there were so many

need to throw a

was because humans couldn't always

that was the goal inside

the True Path Stage needed

the limit

would be ready to

Shang had changed more than

he felt like some of the attacks were superfluous or that there was an opening somewhere that couldn't be closed with an attack that

Mana pathways fit his new fighting style even

simply changed too much

of

beast

as

force of

the beast was launching a terrifying offensive

the first time in a long while, Shang actually got

death more than once, and his

injure the beast or even

always kept himself

here

here to

but he eventually got used to

was like Shang wasn't fighting a Late