Sword God in a World of Magic

Five hours later, Shang returned to the real world and focused on the confused woman wandering around his territory.

The last time, he had waited a week to waste as much time as possible.

But this time, waiting for an entire week wouldn't be the optimal course of action.

Last time, it was obvious that Shang would be superior to his enemy, but this time, he had fought against quite a strong Mage.

Waiting an entire week would unveil Shang's power as a Cloud to everyone.

There was still a high likelihood that Shang was only a Boltling.

The Lightning Manor could use him to lure out an enemy with a fourfold Spirit Sense and then directly attack that person with the strongest Cloud they had, killing one of the most talented Mages in the Judgment Palace.

For such a plan to work, Shang needed to be quite a strong Boltling.

Really brutal fights between even Mages on such a level could take up to twelve hours, but Shang decided to end the fight after five.

He didn't want it to appear too close.

Shang moved into the sky and spoke several complex words.

Whooom!

A Mana Shield appeared around him.

The next moment, Shang threw a big part of the Mana inside his mind away.

And then, he cast a Fire Spell, which killed the confused woman.

The cloudy barrier became transparent again, and the enemy Mage King looked at the distant Shang.

She could see that he was rapidly absorbing Mana, and with her very experienced eyes, she could also see that Shang wasn't even close to having a full tank of Mana right now.

Everything seemed like the fight had been relatively close.

Naturally, she was still skeptical.

Shang could be putting on a show.

However, the chances of that were low.

it was something completely different to win against them without killing

error could result in

of that, chances were high that the opponent would just kill themselves as soon as they realized that they had lost. At least with such an action, the detonation of their Mana may take their opponent down with

have needed to win in a

the Mage King asked the people behind

time, there was no immediate

with each other, deciding on who to

powerful ones left

do it," a woman with icy-blue hair

noticed that the

Were they twins?

but the pressure she exhibited was

you to go like this," the Mage

over at the Mage

Mage King summoned a piece of paper, which

It was a contract.

the Mage King said as the contract floated

it

and five minutes had passed, she would have to

interface with the contract and summon its power,

all of her powers had been sealed

purpose of that contract was

wanted to find out if Shang was putting on a

another five or more hours,

fight ended within five minutes, it meant that Shang had been putting on a show all this

some seconds, the new volunteer signed the contract and

luck," the Mage King said, looking back

King's eyes on him, thanks to his bandage, but

took to the sky and shot

for his new

the bandage told him

had a threefold Spirit Sense like

that his opponent

like last time, he used two Mana Steps and

CRACK!

opponent's Mana Shield

had won against her the same way he had

had known that Shang actually wasn't a

have expected Shang to get close to her very quickly,