Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang's next opponent was another beast with a Lightning Affinity, but it also wasn't the most impressive.

It was a white ape that was using a huge club. It mostly used its Lightning Mana to increase its speed.

Sure, the white ape was pretty fast, but its defense was horrible.

After avoiding a couple of attacks, Shang launched an attack of his own, and the battle ended.

However, Shang had felt more pressure in this fight than in the last since he had been forced to rapidly defend many times before he could launch his own attack.

The sheer power and speed of these beasts had reached such levels that Shang was immediately bombarded by an avalanche of attacks, and if he got hit once, he would explode into a shower of blood.

It was a lot of pressure.

Shang fought a couple more battles, and the beasts became more powerful and more dangerous.

He was going up the rankings of the island.

Eventually, Shang found some opponents that could genuinely threaten his life.

While his attacking power had reached levels where Shang could also kill these powerful beasts in one strike, his speed, and defense were brutally lacking.

"This is not the battle I want," Shang suddenly transmitted to his opponent.

The white wolf in front of Shang stopped attacking, waiting for an elaboration.

"Right now, we are evenly matched," Shang said. "However, you are not the opponent that will help me comprehend the thing I want to comprehend."

The wolf's stance changed to a casual one. "You are conceding?"

"If that is the only way to get a different opponent, yes," Shang answered. "I don't care about who is more powerful between us. I care about becoming stronger, and you are not the beast that can help me achieve this at this moment."

The wolf nodded.

It was in the middle of the rankings of Peak Beast Lords on the island, and it was only interested in keeping its ranking.

was enough

was rare on these levels since almost all fights were between beasts that

beast admitted that it was weaker than another

the Mana. Because of that, consuming other beasts no longer had

known each other for a long

and everyone acted according to their

time, Shang knew what he wanted

also knew that this opponent wouldn't be

wolf left, and

fighting, Shang also conceded to

opponents, Shang actually got one that would help

a Lightning Serpent, and it was essentially a superior version of the first lightning bird

speed was a bit slower, its attacks were truly devastating, and it actually had

and every attack he launched was blocked by the

Shang couldn't possibly win since he couldn't

exactly what he

brutal attacks from the Serpent

probably changed its strategy against Shang after about 30 seconds of battle, but the Thunder King had told it that the Lightning Serpent's purpose was to increase Shang's

pressure on the Serpent's back, and it also became interested in increasing its own

two of them

years, Shang actually had to subtly use his Domain of Entropy to destroy parts of the Serpent's will on its attacks since the Serpent was getting better at

that was where things remained for around 50

Serpent seemingly stopped improving, and Shang also seemingly

several things had changed during that

Sword was no longer just around

now, the black blade of Shang's Death Sword was warping and moving like a black

it was moving like

Sword Mana kept extending from Shang's sword, blocking a couple of

was like Shang's sword had become a form of liquid

to get Sword Transformation to

moment, all the Death Sword Mana around Shang's sword expanded forward and

of Shang turned black, almost like he was using his

of Mana to divert it like