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.

had used the Concept of Purgatory to weaken the beak until he could

bird knew that

want to see you for at least a century. If you appear

at Shang with an unreadable

CRK! CRK!

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

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

but he couldn't keep fighting the same

couple of minutes later, Shang's

was quite a tall and powerful fortress of a

beasts, this one wasn't the biggest fan of keeping its body size suppressed, and it

tortoise could barely move

the Mana around the tortoise. 'I expected to only fight beasts with a Lightning Affinity here, but now, we got another

be quite difficult to beat but

bird, Shang needed to improve his speed and defense,

Shang would need

tortoise fully entered the Isolation Barrier, Metal and Earth Mana gathered

BOOOOM!

ore exploded out of the turtle,

projectiles since they were not that fast, but he

many projectiles at Shang, he actually had some opportunities to use Sword Heart since its assault

CRRRRRRK!

neck, but he could

sealed with a mixture of earth and metal just moments

physical slash, but the

still get close and attack, but he couldn't gather enough power to actually injure the

Shang decided to use Infection, but before it could reach any significant power, the part that Shang hit was cast

All the rock and metal

sure if this was normal for the tortoise

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

place an Infection very

that part eventually