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

to fight an average Late True Path

wouldn't

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

all

was not to win

would take a long time, making it very

to

attacks to be absolutely perfect

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

Stage, warriors were creating the blueprint for their fighting

at that point, and it wasn't completely perfected yet. While the Path dictated

sense, the Path represented a ruleset, and the

single performance was

and one couldn't always perform

were so

need to throw a spear so

was because humans couldn't always

that was the goal

in the True Path Stage needed to

needed to push their Path to the limit and make

would be ready

years, Shang had changed more than one

of the attacks were superfluous or that there was an opening somewhere that couldn't be closed with an attack that actually flowed into the

Shang's Mana pathways fit his new fighting style

had simply changed too much

happier with his current way of

quickly met his opponent, a beast

rather easy for Shang, but as he used up

pushed the beast back with the overwhelming force

was launching a terrifying offensive at

time in a

than once, and his mind always went to using

could severely injure the

kept

wasn't here to

was here

couple of seconds, but he eventually got used to the strikes of

was like Shang wasn't fighting a