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

used rapid and powerful mid-range

had weak defenses. His tactic had been to

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

first opponent was a Beast Controller that was

as far away from Shang as possible

the beasts, the Beast Controller was basically helpless, and Shang killed

battle was

at

didn't seem very

about to die, and he

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

man's body exploded, filling the entire room with

because the

been focused on him, Shang would

Shang's opponent had bet

would unleash a single attack, and that would be

he would win. If his opponent survived,

person showed up shortly later, he

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

imagine that people that chose this Path had incredible powers of

a weak man carrying around a

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

It was a Mage.

Shang didn't have any difficulties

that the Mage Path

offense, great speed, great

good in

Path was definitely among

similar powers, but it was probably quite

the next

he had actually already gone, but he was quite

saw that this room was far smaller than all

room was only about

room was an elevated chair, and

walked over to the chair and sat

ghostly silhouette appeared in front of

difficult to make out the details, but Shang saw that the ghostly figure was a male of Shang's height with blonde

Shang knew who

was an image

when the

emanated reminded Shang a bit of Jerald before his son

but

someone that could inspire others

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

figure uttered with a

Shang did not answer.

wish for?" the figure