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

and they still needed to

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

realized that the Diamond Body Stage

it could be counted as a prototype for an actual Fifth

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

the Diamond Body Stage, could see a possible way forward,

a way to create

fix the control issues of the Mana. Maybe something

about the Barbarians, Elver thought about a way to

using one's rage to amplify

the Mana Pathways, create techniques to push

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

be warriors at that

of that became reality, these physical fighters could reach speeds several times faster than beasts while having bodies several times

a warrior, it would be like fighting a beast two

difficult but not

physical fighters would be just as powerful

as he looked at the sky.

while, he

supposed to be

by my incomplete Diamond Body. I won't be part of

the warrior academy under which Elver

created the True Path Stage, but he also had

It had been pathetic.

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

of his Diamond Body

future,

wasn't sure what he

anger, acceptance,

had come to

far as he would

on, he would focus on

was to create real

weren't weaker than Mages or Shang's

Elver was accepting his role, Oliver gritted his teeth in

had lost to contestant 31, he had felt quite

that his path might have

he had seen Shang, he

vengeance had completely consumed all

It was him!

was his teacher's

King

He ruined everything!

the apocalypse