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.

against someone, but it was something completely different to win against them without killing them and keeping

could result

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

to put on a show, Shang would have needed to win in a very controlled manner against his enemy without giving them a chance to kill

next?" the Mage King asked the

there was no immediate

talking with each other, deciding

more powerful ones left the

a woman with icy-blue hair

noticed that the new volunteer looked almost identical to

Were they twins?

but the pressure she exhibited was just a slight bit stronger than the previous

to go like this,"

at the Mage King with questioning

a piece of paper, which

It was a contract.

the Mage

read through it and

lost the battle and five minutes had passed, she would

needed to interface with the contract and summon its power,

even if all of her powers had been

that contract was

if Shang was

or more hours, it meant that Shang

that Shang

seconds, the new volunteer signed the

go. Good luck," the Mage King said, looking back

him, thanks to his bandage,

to the sky and shot into the barrier, which became cloudy

waited for his

the bandage told

had a

opponent

opponent, and just like last time, he used

CRACK!

Mana

same way

actually wasn't a Mage,

Shang to get close to her very quickly, and she would have done her best