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.

already more than was buried inside

and more intense, and Shang quickly

the beginning, it had

had been his Spirit

now, it was

Just a little more speed from

the Abomination Lords without issues, and Shang also had to use

instantaneous and since it strengthened World Connection, Shang could use it to slow and delay several of the Abomination

was blocking

always only barely arrived in time to block, and most of the time, Shang very awkwardly used his

forward when it hit the enemy's attack. The sword essentially didn't even get a real attack off and had to block attacks while its own attack was still in its preparatory

was like someone punching something that was only ten centimeters away

was like the Abominations hit the

things extremely

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

BANG!

just

have been fast enough to

stronger than the Abomination's body, and

suddenly noticed that he had more time than usual

getting closer to what he wanted, and he started to

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

a battle since they only

their legs and arms. A kick to the

Shang became stronger, he returned to only using his sword again since his body wasn't

and if he blocked their attacks with his body, he

plenty of