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.

fight was against an Early Elementalist

and powerful mid-range

had been to kill the opponent with

arena changed again, and it was now about 1,000 kilometers wide,

opponent was a Beast Controller that was controlling ten Initial

away from Shang as possible as her beasts

beasts, the Beast Controller was basically helpless,

next battle was

looked at a smiling old

seem

felt like he was about to die, and he rapidly unleashed several ranged attacks that killed

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

the entire room with destructive

that was because the power had been dispersed across the

been focused

bet

a single attack, and that would be

opponent died, he would win.

a second person showed up shortly later, he

extreme way of fighting, but he had nearly succeeded

imagine that people that chose

man carrying around a shotgun with exactly one bullet

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

It was a Mage.

any difficulties

Shang realized that the Mage

offense, great speed,

was good in

Mage Path was definitely

Controllers could reach similar powers, but it

entered the next

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

the next room and saw that this room was far smaller than all

the room was only about

an elevated chair, and that was about it. There

to the chair and sat

a ghostly silhouette appeared in

out the details, but Shang saw that the ghostly figure was

knew who that

an image

seen Lucius before, back when the God had kicked his

figure emanated reminded Shang a bit of Jerald before his son

quite approachable but

could inspire others to follow

figure was probably just some kind

the ghostly figure

Shang did not answer.

you wish for?"