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 Early Elementalist

used rapid and powerful mid-range attacks of different

but he had weak defenses. His tactic had been to kill the opponent with overwhelming offense before the opponent could fight

and it was now about 1,000 kilometers wide, signifying that the long-range battles would

was a Beast Controller that was controlling

away from Shang as possible as her beasts attacked

Controller was basically helpless, and Shang

next battle

just looked at a smiling

seem

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

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

exploded, filling the

was because the power had been dispersed across the

power had actually been focused on

opponent had bet everything

a single attack, and that

died, he would win.

showed up shortly later, he

was a very extreme way of fighting, but he had nearly

that people that chose this Path had incredible powers of

like a weak man carrying around a shotgun

be the last, and

It was a Mage.

have any difficulties in killing the

fighting nine different opponents, Shang realized that the

defense, great offense, great speed, great range,

was good

Path was definitely

Controllers could reach similar powers,

entered the next

no idea how far he had actually already gone, but he was quite sure that he was somewhere in the Eternal Ocean, far

next room and saw that this room was far smaller than

fact, the room was only about 30 meters

room was an elevated chair, and that was about it.

slowly walked over to

next moment, a ghostly silhouette

was difficult to make out the details, but Shang saw that the ghostly figure was a male of

knew who

was an image of Lucius

the God had kicked

Aura that the ghostly figure emanated reminded Shang a bit of Jerald before his son

seemed quite approachable but also highly

that could inspire others to

that this ghostly figure was probably just some kind of complex Magic Circle that controlled the entire trial

passed," the ghostly figure uttered with

Shang did not answer.

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