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.

had taken part in the tournament were the first warriors

were newbies in the Fifth Realm, and they still needed to become familiar

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

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

as a prototype for an actual Fifth

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

possible way forward, but it would

find a

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

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

one's rage to amplify one's

Core, change the Mana Pathways, create techniques to push

that was present, this might become a Fifth Realm that was powerful enough to act as a foundation

would they still be warriors at that

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

warrior, it would be like fighting

but

fighters would be just as powerful

thought as he looked at the sky.

a while,

was never supposed to

body has already been ruined by my incomplete Diamond Body. I won't

warrior academy under which Elver had learned shot through

but he also had the weakest Path

It had been pathetic.

like Mervin and Shang to

thought of his Diamond Body Stage,

the future,

wasn't sure what he

anger, acceptance,

come to

was as far as he

on, he would focus on refining his Diamond Body further and

to create real

weren't weaker than

Elver was accepting his role, Oliver gritted

he had felt quite melancholic and had gone on about

said that his path might have

seen Shang, he had forgotten

had

It was him!

was his teacher's

was King

He ruined everything!

brought the apocalypse