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 tournament were the first warriors that reached

the Fifth Realm, and they still needed to become familiar

Body

realized that the

counted as

a lot of refining to become strong enough to act as

could see a possible way forward, but it

needed to find a way to create a

control issues of the Mana. Maybe something like different Mana Pathways would

thought about a way to

rage

a Beast Core, change the Mana Pathways, create techniques

all of that was present, this might become a Fifth Realm that was powerful enough to act as a

they still be warriors

of that became reality, these physical fighters could reach speeds several times faster than

a warrior, it would be like fighting a beast two

difficult but

physical fighters would be

at the sky. He had

a while,

I was never supposed to

by my incomplete

the deceased teachers of the warrior academy under which Elver had learned shot through his mind, especially the old

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

It had been pathetic.

allowed people like Mervin and Shang to become as powerful as they

Elver thought of his Diamond Body Stage, he felt something

the future, but

wasn't sure

frustration, anger,

had come to an

far as he would

focus on refining his Diamond Body further and

goal was to create real

that weren't weaker than

his role, Oliver gritted his

he had felt quite melancholic and had gone

said that his path might have also reached

when he had seen Shang, he had forgotten all of

vengeance had completely consumed all his

It was him!

his teacher's

King

He ruined everything!

had brought the