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

newbies in the Fifth Realm, and they still needed to become familiar

Diamond Body Stage

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

as a prototype for an actual

needed a lot of refining to become strong enough to act as

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

to find a way to create a Beast

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

the Barbarians, Elver thought about a way to exchange control

rage

a Beast Core, change the Mana Pathways,

when all of that was present, this might become a Fifth Realm that was

they still be

several times faster than beasts while having

a warrior, it would be like fighting a beast two

difficult but

physical fighters would be

the sky. He

while, he

never supposed

body has already been ruined by my incomplete Diamond Body. I won't be

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

Path Stage, but he also had the weakest

It had been pathetic.

allowed people like Mervin and Shang to become as powerful

Elver thought of his Diamond Body Stage, he felt

not be part of the future, but my research

wasn't sure what

frustration, anger, acceptance,

path had come

as far as he

now on, he would focus on refining

goal was to create

weaker than Mages or Shang's

accepting his role, Oliver gritted

to contestant 31, he had felt quite melancholic and had gone on

had said that his path

had seen Shang, he had forgotten

vengeance had

It was him!

was his teacher's

King

He ruined everything!

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