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.

did one last

wanted to fight an average Late True

definitely wouldn't

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

all

goal was not to win but

fight would take a long time, making it very dangerous for

Shang wanted to push himself

his attacks to be absolutely

Shang had already come to terms with the entire philosophy behind advancing inside the True

Stage, warriors were creating the blueprint for their fighting style.

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

Path represented a ruleset, and the warriors could create

single

one

also why there were so many tries in the

would people need to throw a spear

because humans couldn't always

the goal

the True Path Stage needed to

to push their Path to the limit and make perfect use of

be

had changed more

that there was an opening somewhere that couldn't be closed with an attack that actually flowed into the one he

Mana pathways fit his new fighting style

changed

with his current way of fighting.

his opponent, a beast at the Late True Path

easy for Shang, but as he used up New Moon,

with the overwhelming force of Ice Mana,

launching a terrifying offensive

first time in a long while, Shang

more than once, and his mind always went

could severely injure the

kept himself in

here

here

couple of seconds, but he eventually got

like Shang wasn't fighting a Late True Path Stage