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

and they still needed to become familiar with

in the Diamond Body Stage knew that they wouldn't reach the Sixth Realm

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

it could be counted as a prototype for an actual

lot of refining to become strong enough to act as a

could see a possible way

find a way

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

thought about a way to

one's rage to

Mana Pathways, create techniques to push the Mana even

Realm that was powerful enough to act as a foundation

they still be warriors at

speeds several times faster than beasts while having bodies several times stronger

would be like fighting a beast two

but

fighters would be just as powerful as

thought as he looked at the

a while, he

I was never supposed to be a

incomplete Diamond Body. I won't be part of

academy under which Elver had learned shot through his mind, especially

Stage, but he also had the weakest Path out of every

It had been pathetic.

his sacrifice allowed people like Mervin and

Diamond Body Stage, he felt

of the future,

sure what

anger,

path had come to

as far as he would

on refining his Diamond Body

to create

than Mages or Shang's

was accepting his role, Oliver gritted his teeth

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

path might have also reached

had seen Shang, he

vengeance had completely consumed all his

It was him!

was his teacher's

King

He ruined everything!

had brought the apocalypse onto