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.

tournament were the first warriors that reached

were newbies in the Fifth Realm, and they

everyone in the Diamond Body Stage

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

be counted as a prototype for an actual

of refining to become strong enough to act as a foundation for reaching

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

they needed to find a way to create a Beast

way to fix the control issues

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

one's rage to

the Mana Pathways, create techniques to

Realm that was powerful enough to act as a foundation to

be warriors at that

fighters could reach speeds several times faster than beasts while having bodies several

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

difficult but not

physical fighters would be just as powerful

thought as he looked at the sky. He had

while, he

supposed

incomplete Diamond

academy under which Elver

True Path Stage, but he also had the weakest

It had been pathetic.

Mervin and Shang to become as powerful as

thought of his Diamond Body Stage, he felt

not be part of the future,

sure

frustration, anger, acceptance, melancholy,

path had come to

far as he

would focus on refining his Diamond Body

was to create

than

role, Oliver

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

path might have also reached its

Shang, he

for vengeance had completely consumed

It was him!

his teacher's

was King

He ruined everything!

the apocalypse