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

and powerful mid-range attacks

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

about

opponent was a Beast Controller that

far away from Shang as possible as her beasts

Controller

next battle was

at a smiling old

seem very

was about to die, and he

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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

burns, but that was because the power had been dispersed across the entire

been focused

had bet everything on

would unleash a single attack, and that would be

his opponent died, he would win. If his opponent survived, he

person showed up shortly later, he would

a very extreme way of fighting, but he

could imagine that people that chose

was like a weak man carrying around a shotgun

the next fight would be the last,

It was a Mage.

any difficulties in killing the

Shang realized that the Mage Path

great speed, great range, great

good

Path was definitely among

could imagine that Weapon Masters and Domain Controllers could reach similar powers,

the next

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

saw that this

the room was only

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

walked over to the

moment, a ghostly silhouette appeared in front

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

Shang knew

was an image of Lucius

seen Lucius before, back when the

figure emanated reminded Shang a bit of Jerald before his

quite approachable but also highly

was someone that could inspire others to

Shang knew that this ghostly figure was probably just some kind of complex

the ghostly figure uttered with a kind

Shang did not answer.

you wish for?" the figure