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 warriors that reached the

newbies in the Fifth Realm, and

Diamond Body Stage

more introspective warriors even realized that the Diamond

be counted as a prototype for an actual Fifth

to become strong enough to act

Body Stage, could see a possible way forward, but it

to find a way to

they needed to find a way to fix the control issues of the Mana. Maybe something like different Mana Pathways would

Elver thought about a way to exchange control over

like using one's rage

Beast Core, change the Mana Pathways, create

a Fifth Realm that was powerful enough to act as a foundation to

they still be warriors at

several times faster than beasts

Mage fighting such a warrior, it would be like

but

fighters would be just as

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

while,

I was never supposed to

ruined by my incomplete

under which Elver

he also had the

It had been pathetic.

people like Mervin and Shang to

thought of his Diamond Body

be part of the future,

sure

anger,

path had come to an

was as far

focus on refining his

goal was to create real

weren't weaker than

Elver was accepting his role, Oliver gritted his teeth in

Oliver had lost to contestant 31, he had felt quite melancholic

that his path might have also

when he had seen Shang, he had forgotten all of

had completely

It was him!

his

was King Storm's

He ruined everything!

had brought the apocalypse