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

powerful mid-range attacks

defenses. His tactic had been to kill the opponent with

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

Controller that

away from Shang as possible as her beasts attacked

the beasts, the Beast Controller

next battle

at a smiling old

seem

like he was about to die, and he rapidly unleashed

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

man's body exploded, filling the entire room with destructive and chaotic storms of

but that was because the power had

this destructive power had actually been

had bet

would unleash a single attack, and that would

he would win. If his opponent survived, he would

if a second person showed up shortly later,

very extreme way of fighting, but

that people that chose this Path had incredible

was like a weak man carrying around a shotgun with

assumed that the next fight would be the last, and

It was a Mage.

didn't have any difficulties in killing

fighting nine different opponents, Shang realized that the Mage Path

defense, great offense, great speed, great range, great

good

Mage Path was definitely

reach similar powers, but it was probably quite a bit harder to

the

no idea how far he had actually already gone, but he was quite sure

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.

walked over to the chair and sat

moment, a ghostly silhouette

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

Shang knew who

image of

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

emanated reminded Shang

but also

could inspire others to follow

was probably just some kind

figure uttered

Shang did not answer.

do you wish for?" the