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

definitely wouldn't be

Path Stage beast back then had been that ice hedgehog, and Shang had only killed it

and use all of his States,

not to win but to

that the fight would take a long time, making it very

wanted to

to be absolutely perfect

the entire

the blueprint for their fighting

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

sense, the Path represented a ruleset, and the warriors

single performance

mistakes, and one couldn't always

was also why there were so many tries

would people need to throw a

because humans couldn't

exactly that was the goal inside the True Path

the True Path Stage needed to perfect

to push their Path to the limit and make perfect

would be ready to

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

Mana pathways fit his

simply changed too much

Shang was happier with his current way of fighting. He felt like it fit him

a beast at the Late

for Shang, but as

force of Ice Mana,

now, the beast was launching a terrifying offensive at

time in a long while, Shang

faced death more than once, and his mind always went

injure the beast or even

kept himself

wasn't here to

here to

horrible for the next couple of seconds, but

like Shang wasn't fighting a Late True Path Stage