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

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

the beginning, it had been

had been his Spirit

now, it was

little more speed from the enemies and Shang would

with all the Abomination Lords without issues, and Shang

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

his arm, his mind was blocking and slowing over ten Abominations for

of the time, Shang very awkwardly used his sword to block since it wasn't fast enough to assume an actually

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

was like someone punching something that was only ten centimeters away from

the weak spots in Shang's

extremely

reorient. As a comparison, swinging an outstretched arm from

BANG!

and he just punched the

sword wouldn't have been fast enough to block the

was stronger than the Abomination's body, and Shang

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

Shang felt like he was getting closer to what he wanted, and he started to think about

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

only used the sword in a battle since they only

used their legs and arms. A kick to the torso or legs

using

and if he blocked their attacks with his body, he would be

had plenty of