Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang thought for a long time about everything that had happened in his life.

He got a couple of ideas, but he wasn't quite sure which one he should pick.

Some of them aimed to combine all of Shang's powers to create a single unified ability, but Shang didn't like that idea.

He felt like there were still many things he could learn, and combining them now might make it difficult to combine powers he will comprehend in the future.

Shang's next thought was about combining his states, but that also wasn't possible since he had already combined all the states he had ever used.

For Shang, this wasn't about finding a way forward. After all, he had already done that so many times that it wasn't a problem anymore.

It was choice.

Choice was the problem.

Shang knew what he could do, but he wasn't sure which Path the best one was for him.

After thinking up several possibilities, Shang decided to resume physical training, and he summoned several Abomination Lords.

For starters, Shang only fought about 15 of them at the same time.

Void Break and Sword Focus made it rather easy for Shang to defend from their attacks. After all, his body was even more powerful and faster than theirs.

If there weren't so many enemies, Shang wouldn't even need to use any finesse or techniques.

Shang only had some problems when he was fighting 20 of them simultaneously, but it only became really troublesome at 25.

Shang decided to push himself and settled for fighting 28 Peak Abomination Lords.

than was buried inside

became more and more intense, and Shang quickly noticed where his

beginning, it had been

had been his

now, it was

peak. Just a little more speed from the enemies and

Shang also

Sword Heart, but since World Fusion was instantaneous and since it strengthened World Connection, Shang could use it to slow and

his sword as quickly as possible with his arm, his mind was blocking and slowing

always only barely arrived in time to block, and most of the time, Shang very awkwardly used his sword to block since it wasn't fast enough to assume

essentially didn't even get a real attack off and had to block attacks while

someone punching something that was only ten centimeters

hit the weak spots

extremely awkward and

more time to reorient. As a comparison, swinging an outstretched arm

BANG!

Shang's sword vanished, and he just punched the Abomination's claw with his

fast enough to

was stronger than the Abomination's body, and Shang managed to push

with the next three attacks, and he suddenly noticed that he had more time than usual for the

what he wanted,

in a sword fight,' Shang thought. 'I haven't done that in

only used the sword in a battle since they only considered their sword as

arms. A kick to the torso or legs

to only using

was fighting could only be hurt by Shang's sword, and

had plenty