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 warriors that had taken part in the tournament were

Realm, and they still needed to become familiar with

was difficult to accept, but everyone in the Diamond Body Stage knew that they

even realized that the Diamond Body Stage wasn't truly

as a prototype for an actual

strong enough to act as a foundation

see a possible way forward, but it

find a way to

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

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

rage

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

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

would they still be warriors

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

warrior, it would

but

would be just as powerful as

looked at the sky. He

while, he

supposed to

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

deceased teachers of the warrior academy under

Dean 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

of the future, but my research will influence

wasn't sure

frustration, anger, acceptance, melancholy,

path had come to

far as

now on, he would focus on

was to create real

that weren't weaker than Mages

his role, Oliver

31, he had felt quite melancholic and had gone on about his lack of

said that his path might have also

seen Shang, he had forgotten all

had completely consumed all his

It was him!

his teacher's

was King Storm's

He ruined everything!

the apocalypse