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.

try to land cheap shots after I have obviously emerged victorious, I will kill them," Shang

Thunder King didn't show

the

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

Barrier was to stop any potentially

Shang waited until his first opponent arrived

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

of the Thunder Horse when he saw this

couldn't

this one was a

Thunder King didn't answer, it had obviously

around the horse's mane intensified and

telling Shang that

BANG!

the lightning exploded

the same time, the Mana in the surroundings vanished as

vibrating darkness appeared in front of Shang, and the lightning the horse had shot over

darkness vanished, and the horse saw its lightning being absorbed

Shang held a long and somewhat broad sword in

long and about 50% wider than his

like his original long sword,

this form for his newest and

to

it was long and wide enough to also have a lot of force behind

still quite some issues regarding this

to block Shang's entire body from view, and it wasn't small enough to move with maximum flexibility

had Shang solved these

training in something

weapon, he had

worked on controlling his Affinities simultaneously but

something that many Mages had learned in the High Mage or

picked it up rather

to permanently include the

It would be just as heavy as Shang's Addum would

a bit of Darkness Mana with an abnormal extreme of void, Shang could

in Darkness Mana was constantly included in the sword to make it as

to be hefty and strong, he would transform half of the naturally stored Mana into Light Mana with an extreme of mass. This would result in 5% of a Void Break being stored as Light