Sword God in a World of Magic

Even though the fish bird had created its True Path, Shang still didn't have more issues than before.

The fish bird was a Late Beast Lord. A couple of techniques from the Fourth Realm didn't make any difference.

The two of them continued fighting for about five years.

It seemed like creating an Impose wasn't very easy for the fish bird, and it would probably need another couple of decades to create one.

So, while the fish bird stopped improving in the fight, Shang continued to become stronger.

In comparison to the fish bird, Shang was already working towards comprehending something that would allow a normal warrior to reach the Seventh Realm.

After another five years, Shang wasn't on the edge all the time. The fish bird was still insanely fast, but his usage of his sword had improved tremendously.

Shang still didn't know what beyond the Sword Heart was, but he knew that he was making progress. Otherwise, he wouldn't be growing more powerful right now.

Ten years after Shang had started to fight the fish bird, his body suddenly transformed into a weakened husk.

Shang became slower and weaker, but thanks to his improvements, he could still resist the fish bird.

A couple of seconds later, Shang's body recovered, and he struck the fish bird's beak.

Nothing seemed to change.

Shang's body became weak again and struck the beak once more.

CRACK!

Suddenly, the fish bird's beak completely broke apart, and Shang stabbed his sword toward the fish bird's head.

Shang's sword only buried itself up to the fish bird's skull before it stopped.

However, if he wanted to, Shang could have killed it.

used the Concept of Purgatory to

fish bird knew that

"I don't want to see you for at least a century. If you appear in front of me again, I

bird looked at Shang with

CRK! CRK!

turned back into a normal fish, signifying that it wasn't interested in battling

not have been the correct phrase. It definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but

in the last decade, but he couldn't keep fighting the same opponent again and again. He needed variety to improve different

later, Shang's

was quite a tall and powerful fortress of

of keeping its body size suppressed, and it took up nearly half of the Isolation

could barely move

Affinity?' Shang thought as he felt the Mana around the tortoise. 'I expected to only fight beasts with a Lightning Affinity here, but now, we

noticed that this opponent would also be quite difficult to beat but for an entirely different

order to win against the fish bird, Shang needed to improve his speed and defense, but both things wouldn't help him a whole lot against

would need

entered the Isolation Barrier, Metal and

BOOOOM!

instant, rocks and pieces of ore exploded out of

a lot of trouble avoiding all the projectiles since they were not that fast, but he also couldn't completely relax. Just

had some opportunities to use Sword Heart since its assault wasn't as relentless and

CRRRRRRK!

neck, but he could only cut through about 10% of

sealed with a mixture of earth and metal

with a real physical slash, but the speed and number of projectiles

close and attack, but he couldn't

but before it could reach any significant power,

body acted like the teeth of a shark. All the rock and metal on its body kept expanding until it

sure if this was normal for the tortoise or if someone had told

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

decided to use Injection and place an Infection

part eventually fell off the