Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang was still visible, but the tortoise couldn't sense him.

That was because Shang had used the Light and Darkness Concepts to hide from Spirit Senses.

Yet, if one had eyes, they would still be able to see him.

But since the true tortoise was buried inside the thick layer of armor, it couldn't look at Shang with its actual eyes.

This essentially made Shang invisible to the tortoise.

At least until it somehow managed to look at the real world with its eyes.

And if it did that, Shang would very quickly realize where the real tortoise was.

The pressure on Shang's back reduced by a lot, but he still had to avoid the projectiles.

In a certain way, avoiding the projectiles now became even more draining on his concentration since he couldn't anticipate a projectile's trajectory anymore. After all, it was random.

But Shang still preferred it this way.

Shang recovered his Death Mana and used Injection to get as deeply into the tortoise as possible, but he could barely penetrate just a couple of kilometers of its ridiculously thick armor.

Once more, Shang couldn't win the battle because his Affinity couldn't be revealed.

If he could use his Domain of Entropy, he could dig through the tortoise's body while weakening the projectiles so much that his body could resist them.

Additionally, if Shang could use Fate, he could easily bisect the tortoise, which would allow him to pinpoint the location of the real beast.

But as things stood now, he didn't have enough power to break through the armor.

The stone and metal that the tortoise left in the arena quickly turned into Earth and Metal Mana again, which rapidly got reabsorbed by the tortoise.

Shang could try destroying the will on the Mana, but that wouldn't do a lot. The tortoise would just absorb more Mana from the ground and air.

After he considered all of this, Shang was actually glad that he had such an opponent.

This tortoise allowed Shang to work on his offense without being just a target dummy.

'The fish bird was a perfect opponent, and now this tortoise is also a perfect opponent. Is this just a coincidence?'

Shang wasn't sure.

It was possible that the Thunder King was sending in just the right opponents.

Shang continued fighting against the tortoise for several years, launching one attack after the other.

He was using the tortoise's armor as a way to gauge how strong his attacks were, and it proved to be quite helpful.

As the years passed, Shang managed to get deeper and deeper into the tortoise's body.

After 20 years, Shang managed to get two kilometers deeper than before. Assuming the real tortoise was in the middle of the bigger tortoise's body, Shang only needed to get through another six kilometers of armor.

Every time, Shang used a perfectly prepared Sword Heart with all his Death Mana using the Concept of Weakness.

Another 20 years later, Shang managed to get another two kilometers deeper.

In comparison to the beginning, Shang's attacks had become nearly twice as strong, which was a far bigger improvement than he had expected.

his body also hadn't

offensive power had increased

What had changed?

power of his

difficult to say what had

Concepts, walking further down the Path of Sword consisted

his attacks, and they also felt

power of his attacks without

Barely anything!

his normal attacks had barely

most, they were 10%

to the 100% increase in power with Death

Shang changed

as fast as he had thought. Or maybe, the progress just didn't have as much of an

with Death Mana, his progress

This meant one thing.

wasn't only progressing

was progressing on two Paths,

training like this, and

Shang's power stopped increasing.

power had reached some kind

continued training like

Shang's power barely increased by maybe

But Shang continued.

the next 50 years, Shang's power increased

later, maybe

had entered a rhythm,

an

increased by a bit, but not

Shang felt his attack connect, he

about this attack compared to his normal attacks

difference since it was very subtle and since the Death Mana

Mana, and the subtle

There was something.

Something else.

Shang had never felt

was a bit like Mana, but it wasn't Neutral Mana,

Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Ice, Lightning, Metal, Light, Darkness, Space, Time, Gravity, Life,

Transformation, Shang could feel all kinds of Elemental Mana, and he was sure

it felt

the properties

it come

followed the feeling and watched as

sure where

BANG! BANG! BANG!

of attack, trying

barrage of attacks continued

then, Shang realized

was growing

kind of Mana was using the Mana stored

mind and

BOOOM!

mist appeared around Shang's sword