Sword God in a World of Magic

It was a Mage!

A beast!

A Mage!

"You're a Mage?" Shang asked.

"Can beasts not be Mages?" the Thunder King asked calmly.

"Can beasts below the Beast Lord Realm not be Mages?" Shang countered.

The Thunder King threw an emotionless glance at Shang.

If Shang hadn't come here under the Lightning Emperor's orders, the Thunder King would have killed Shang for his answer.

So, he did the next best thing.

He refused to answer any questions.

"Go into the barrier. I will send opponents to you. You are not allowed to kill anyone," the Thunder King said curtly.

Shang realized that he had annoyed the Thunder King, but he also didn't care a lot.

His question had already been answered.

Naturally, beasts below the Beast Lord Realm didn't have human intelligence. Sure, there were some beasts that acted like Mages, like Proto-Mages and the Serpents, but they were not Mages.

Proto-Mages weren't experienced or intelligent enough to create really advanced Spells, and Serpents simply followed their instincts.

But a Beast Lord was about as intelligent as a human.

So, why wouldn't a Beast Lord be able to learn Magic at that point?

Maybe the Thunder King had once asked one of the humans about Magic.

Shang could imagine a researcher, like the Myriad King, becoming very interested in a beast that wanted to learn Magic.

"Don't send anything below the Late Beast Lord Realm," Shang said.

The Thunder King didn't answer.

but if any of them try to land cheap shots after I have obviously emerged victorious, I will kill

King didn't show

Shang entered the Isolation Barrier and

Thunder King had created the Isolation Barrier, it could still see what was going

Barrier was to stop any potentially spying

Isolation Barrier, Shang waited until his first opponent

was a silver horse with a long horn, its majestic mane

the Thunder

Horse couldn't

one was a

didn't

moment later, the lightning around the horse's mane intensified and gathered

of politely telling Shang that the fight

BANG!

lightning

the same time, the Mana in the surroundings vanished as Shang used Void

vibrating darkness appeared in front of Shang, and the lightning

vanished, and the horse saw its lightning being absorbed

a long and somewhat broad sword in

about 150cm long and about 50% wider than

fact, it looked just like his original long

had decided on this form for his newest

was very sharp, allowing Shang to effectively use it as

enough to also have a lot of

were still quite some issues

view, and it wasn't small enough to move with

had Shang solved

training in

created the blueprint for this weapon,

had worked on controlling his Affinities

many Mages had learned in the High Mage or Archmage Realm, but something Shang hadn't

picked it up rather quickly

permanently include the usage of Mana

quite heavy. It would be just as

by constantly storing a bit of Darkness Mana with an abnormal extreme of void, Shang

of a Void Break in Darkness Mana was constantly included in the sword to make it

Mana with an extreme of mass. This