Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang fought the Berserker, and he was quite surprised by how weak the Berserker was initially.

Sure, his body was stronger than the body of a Weapon Master, but neither his power nor his speed or his techniques were better than the Barbarian.

But there was one difference.

His defense was amazing!

The attack that had created a gash on the Barbarian's face only left a scratch on the Berserker's face.

And then, the Berserker's attacks grew a slight bit faster and a slight bit stronger as a tiny red afterglow appeared behind his swinging axes.

Shang became interested and created a huge gash on the Berserker's chest with his Addum.

The Berserker began to bleed heavily, but his body didn't even show an inkling of healing.

With the huge gash, the Berserker's speed and power reached the Barbarian's level.

CRKSH!

And then, Shang bisected the Berserker with his Addum.

He had seen enough.

Shang quickly entered the next trial and noticed that the arena had become quite a bit bigger. It was around 100 kilometers wide.

This would be a medium-distance battle, according to the size of the arena.

'I guess Lucius only wanted to test me with three close-combat Paths.'

Shang's next fight was against a woman with green hair that wore several bows and crossbows all over her body.

Apparently, she was an Early Ranger Lord, a Path Shang had never heard of.

Her entire gimmick was that she rapidly shot a storm of arrows at Shang.

Her rate of attack was quite a bit faster than a Mage's, but Shang could tell that her range was lower. Additionally, she lacked any form of powerful attack that could break through thick armor.

Shang simply killed her with a couple of ranged attacks since her defense was almost nonexistent.

Shang's next fight was against a Domain Controller.

His entire thing was that he filled the room with lightning, which quickly started to burn Shang's body.

His attacks were simply unavoidable since they encompassed the entire room.

However, the Domain Controller himself only used attacks to push Shang away, and he used plenty of techniques to flee.

It was clear that his tactic was to slowly kill the enemy with his Domain.

Sadly, Shang couldn't experiment for long since the Domain was actually quite dangerous, and he ended the fight rather quickly.

next fight was against an

rapid and powerful mid-range attacks of

was honestly impressive, but he had weak defenses. His tactic had been to kill the opponent with overwhelming offense before

changed again, and it was now about

Controller that was

Beast Controller moved as far away from Shang as possible as her beasts attacked

the beasts, the Beast Controller was basically

next battle

looked at

didn't seem

he rapidly

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

filling the

received slight burns, but that was because the power had been dispersed

actually been

had bet everything

a single attack, and that would be

his opponent died, he would win. If

person showed up shortly later, he would

very extreme way of fighting, but he had

chose this Path had incredible powers of

carrying around

assumed that the next fight would be the last, and his opponent confirmed

It was a Mage.

didn't have any

the Mage Path

defense, great offense, great speed, great

was good

Mage Path was definitely among

reach similar

entered the next

he was quite sure that he was somewhere in the Eternal Ocean, far

this room was far

the room was only about 30 meters

the middle of the room was an elevated chair, and

over to the

next moment, a ghostly silhouette

out the details, but Shang saw that

knew who that

an image

had seen Lucius before, back when the God had kicked his corpse

that the ghostly figure emanated reminded Shang a bit of

quite approachable but also

that could inspire others

was dead, and Shang knew that this ghostly figure was probably just some kind of complex Magic Circle that controlled the entire

the ghostly figure uttered with a kind

Shang did not answer.

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