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.

the warriors that had taken part in the tournament were the first warriors that

Realm, and they

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

warriors even realized that the Diamond Body Stage wasn't truly

as a prototype for

of refining to become strong enough to act as a foundation for

Body Stage, could see a possible way forward, but it would be difficult

needed to find a way to create a

find a way to fix the control issues

about the Barbarians, Elver thought about a way to exchange control over power for more

using one's rage

change the Mana Pathways, create techniques to push the

might become a Fifth Realm that was

be

fighters could reach speeds several times faster than beasts

would be like fighting a beast two levels above

difficult but

be just as powerful

thought as he looked at the sky. He had just received his

a while,

was never supposed to be

incomplete Diamond Body. I won't be

of the warrior academy under which Elver had learned shot

Dean had created the True Path Stage, but he

It had been pathetic.

and Shang to

Diamond Body Stage,

part of the future, but

sure what he

anger, acceptance, melancholy,

had come to

was as far

he would focus on refining

to

than Mages or

accepting his role, Oliver gritted his teeth

to contestant 31, he had felt quite melancholic and had gone on about his lack of

his path

when he had seen Shang, he had

desire for vengeance had completely consumed all

It was him!

was his teacher's

King

He ruined everything!

brought the apocalypse