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.

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

error could result in

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

win in a very controlled manner against his enemy without giving

Mage King asked the people behind

there was

talking with each other, deciding

the more powerful ones left the

do it," a woman with icy-blue

over and noticed that the new volunteer looked almost identical to

Were they twins?

had a threefold Spirit Sense, but the pressure she exhibited

I don't want you to go like this," the Mage

the Mage

Mage King summoned a piece of paper, which she then rapidly filled with

It was a contract.

sure that we are not being played with," the Mage King said as the contract floated over to

through it and furrowed

stated that if she lost the battle and five minutes had passed, she would have to

only needed to interface with the contract and summon its

this, she could end her life, even if all of her powers had been sealed away by the

that contract

if Shang was putting on a

more hours, it meant that

the fight ended within five minutes, it meant that Shang had

new volunteer signed the contract and gave it

the Mage King said, looking

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

sky and shot into

for

like the last time, he waited until the

noticed that his opponent had a threefold Spirit

meant that his opponent had bought

and just like last time, he used

CRACK!

opponent's Mana Shield

against her the same way he had won

known that Shang actually wasn't a Mage, things might have played out

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