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

Realm, and they still needed to become familiar with

Diamond Body Stage knew

fact, the stronger and more introspective warriors even realized that the Diamond Body Stage wasn't

most, it could be counted as a prototype

of refining to become strong enough to act as

Diamond Body Stage, could see a possible way forward,

needed to find a way to create a Beast

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

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

using one's rage to amplify

a Beast Core, change the Mana Pathways, create techniques to push the

Fifth Realm that was powerful enough to act as a foundation to reach the Sixth

they still be warriors

fighters could reach speeds several times faster than beasts while

Mage fighting such a warrior, it would be like fighting a beast two levels above

but not

fighters would be just as powerful

he looked at the sky. He

a while, he

never supposed to be

has already been ruined by my incomplete Diamond Body.

teachers of the warrior academy under which Elver

True Path Stage, but he also had the weakest Path

It had been pathetic.

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

his Diamond Body Stage, he

might not be part of the future, but my

sure what he

anger,

come

was as far as he

on, he would focus on refining

to create

weaker than Mages or Shang's

role, Oliver gritted his

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

said that his path

Shang, he had forgotten

vengeance had completely consumed all his

It was him!

his teacher's

was King Storm's

He ruined everything!

brought the apocalypse