Sword God in a World of Magic

After the group of five left, Star City crowned the champion of the tournament to find the strongest warrior.

Contestant 1, Elver!

Undeniably, Elver was the strongest warrior in the world. Sure, there might be that one Mage that had also learned how to be a warrior, but that couldn't be counted. If any Mage could just take part in the tournament, any Mage Lord could win the tournament just with their insanely strong bodies.

Only pure warriors counted, and Elver was definitely the strongest among them!

The watching Mages applauded as the strongest warrior in the world received his prize, a humongous spear.

This spear symbolized the creation of a path. The owner of the spear was at the forefront of warriorkind, and it was their duty to blaze a new path.

In essence, they were the head of the spear.

However, while the Mages watched with interest, some of the warriors felt like this entire ceremony was a farce.

Oliver and Elver knew Shang.

They were certain that the person in front of them earlier definitely had been Shang.

Shang, a Mage?

They knew that he had a warrior's body, and even if he didn't, they couldn't imagine him following the Magic Path.

Ever since Shang had been at the Commander Stage, he had done things that warriors believed to be impossible.

His power had always been a level above every other warrior.

And things hadn't changed.

Just when they had expected that they knew what they could expect from Shang, he surprised them yet again.

Elver would have expected to be able to fight Shang, at least. He didn't expect that he would win, but he had expected that he would be able to attack him.

Yet, when Shang had moved his fingers, everything became clear.

Elver hadn't been the target of that attack, but he could feel its power.

By just moving his fingers, Shang had summoned powers of the Sixth Realm.

He hadn't even drawn his weapon.

Fighting him would have been no different from fighting an Ancestral Mage.

Fighting him would have been no different from fighting a Zone Beast.

Elver, the strongest warrior in the world?

No.

part in the tournament were the first

in the Fifth Realm, and they still needed to

to accept, but everyone in the Diamond Body Stage knew that they wouldn't

and more introspective warriors even realized that the

could be counted as a

enough to act as a foundation for

Body Stage, could see a possible way forward,

find a way to create

to fix the control issues of the Mana. Maybe something

thought about a way to

one's rage to

Pathways, create techniques to push the

this might become a Fifth Realm that was powerful enough to act as a

would they still be warriors

could reach speeds several times faster than beasts while having bodies several

fighting such a warrior, it would be

but not

physical fighters would be just

thought as he looked at the sky.

while,

never supposed to be a

has already been ruined by my incomplete

deceased teachers of the warrior academy under which Elver

had created the True Path Stage, but he also had the weakest Path out of every warrior in

It had been pathetic.

his sacrifice allowed people like Mervin and Shang to become as powerful

his Diamond

be part of the future, but my research will influence the

sure

anger,

come to

was as far as

focus on refining his Diamond Body

was to

that weren't weaker than Mages or

accepting his role, Oliver gritted

he had felt quite melancholic

said that his path might have also reached

Shang, he had forgotten

had completely consumed

It was him!

was his

was King

He ruined everything!

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