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.

Abomination Lords were already more than was buried inside the

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

beginning, it had

had been his Spirit

now, it

peak. Just a little more speed from the

keep up with all the Abomination Lords without issues, and Shang also had to use World Fusion to

too fast for Sword Heart, but since World Fusion was instantaneous and since it strengthened World Connection, Shang could use it to slow and delay several of the Abomination

with his arm, his mind was blocking and slowing over ten Abominations for every physical attack he blocked with his

the time, Shang very awkwardly used

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

like someone punching something that was only ten centimeters away

the Abominations hit the

made things extremely awkward

of Shang's sword, it took more time to reorient. As a comparison, swinging an outstretched arm from side

BANG!

sword vanished, and he just punched the

have been fast enough to

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

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

closer to what he wanted, and he started to think about the fight while his instincts were

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

used the sword in a battle since they

experienced swordfighters also used their legs and arms. A kick to the torso

only using his sword

enemies he was fighting could only be hurt by Shang's sword, and if he blocked their attacks with his body, he would

had plenty of defensive