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

powerful mid-range attacks of

had been to kill the opponent with overwhelming offense before the opponent could fight

it was now about

was a Beast Controller that

Beast Controller moved as far away from Shang

killing the beasts, the Beast Controller was basically helpless, and

battle was

just looked at a smiling old

seem

he rapidly unleashed several ranged attacks that

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

exploded, filling the entire room with destructive and chaotic storms

but that was because the power had been dispersed across

this destructive power had actually been focused on

had bet everything on one

a single attack, and

would win. If

a second person showed up shortly later, he

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

could imagine that people that chose this Path had incredible powers of

around

assumed that the next fight would be the last, and

It was a Mage.

Shang didn't have any difficulties in killing

that the Mage Path

great offense, great speed, great

was good

Path was definitely

and Domain Controllers could reach similar powers, but it was probably quite a

entered the next

far he had actually already gone, but he was quite sure that he was somewhere

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

the room was only about 30 meters

middle of the room was an elevated chair, and that was about it. There

to the chair and

silhouette appeared in

the details, but Shang saw that the ghostly figure was a male of Shang's height

Shang knew

was an image of

before, back when the God

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

quite approachable but also highly

was someone that could inspire

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

the ghostly figure

Shang did not answer.

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