[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-792":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492627,1940,"Chapter 792  792 – Defense","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-792",792,"\u003Cp>WHOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's body caught on fire suddenly, and if he hadn't been prepared, he would have turned into ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, a powerful and heavy wave was stopping him in his tracks and throwing his body away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, the peacock had released an extremely condensed wave of Blaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the difference in power, Shang couldn't resist the wave and was thrown into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, the heat wasn't as hot as normal since the wave was more focused on pushing Shang away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it had worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang didn't hit the peacock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One had to remember that a weak Initial Beast Lord was as talented and creative as a powerful Peak Ancestral Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weak or average beasts usually had some kind of weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the peacock was obviously a beast that focused on ranged attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, one would think that it had a weak defense or that it was slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn't the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body might not be the hardest, but it obviously had a couple of means of stopping its enemies from coming close to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, green wind appeared around the peacock's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's body suddenly stopped being thrown into the distance and actually started to be pulled towards the peacock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the peacock had just vanished!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock had appeared 50 kilometers away in the distance in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force that had pulled Shang in was the vacuum the peacock had left behind by shooting away at inconceivable speeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, this was its natural speed, not Mana Step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that it didn't use a lot of Mana with that move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the worst thing was that it had left Shang's domain of darkness, which meant that he couldn't use his Concept of Twilight to move rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past trials, this had been one of the biggest dangers. After all, Shang would have wasted a lot of Mana if his opponents had managed to leave his domains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The domain of darkness vanished as Shang used Void Break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blaze had already vanished from the surroundings, and the peacock was now 50 kilometers away, which meant that Shang could use Void Break again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After absorbing all the Darkness Mana, Shang's Subsis began to warp the surrounding space again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Void Break, Shang had gotten rid of this past weakness of his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's burned body was surrounded by Fire Mana and Ice Mana as he shot toward the peacock in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock looked at Shang with angry eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Shang's instincts were screaming at him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock wasn't doing anything, and from this distance, Shang was also fast enough to react to any of the peacock's attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Shang's instincts were telling him that he was about to die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOOOOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An instant later, an incredible amount of Blaze appeared below Shang, and it shot into all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like the Blaze had just been under immense compression before an opening appeared in whatever it was that was compressing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge amount of Blaze had just moved past Shang, transferring all its heat to his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's skin had vanished, and a majority of his muscles had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heat had been so much that not even ashes remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By all intents and purposes, he should be dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, somehow, the most severe injuries on his body healed in an instant, and he returned to his half-burned state from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Shang was glad that he had listened to his instincts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Shang had felt the danger, he had quickly thought of a way to defend himself from whatever was coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was that Shang had no idea from where the attack would come, which made a directional defense impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, the peacock's Blaze was insanely fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Shang was forced to strengthen his inherent defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang had absorbed the Darkness Mana inside his Subsis, which was effectively the same as using Void Break, increasing the power of his body by one level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wouldn't be enough to resist such a powerful attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After absorbing all the Darkness Mana, Shang transformed it into Light Mana with an extreme of mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, he had used that Light Mana on his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mass and weight of his body had multiplied, which effectively meant that there was now much more of his body to burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of having to burn through one layer of Shang's skin, the Blaze had to burn through a layer that was as thick as ten layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Shang hadn't done that, his entire body would have vanished since the Blaze had effectively burned several Shangs of mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, this meant that the stored Mana inside his Subsis was now used up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, Shang had survived, and he had also seen what kind of attack had hit him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The peacock had incorporated the heat part of the Blaze in the Wind Mana. After that, it had essentially conserved the Wind Mana in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that the air didn't seem to have any Wind or Fire Mana, but in truth, there had been a lot of that present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when the peacock had willed it, everything burst apart, releasing the stored energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the peacock had shot into the distance, it had probably placed a couple of these mines in the atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might even be able to slowly move them around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was still over 40 kilometers away, and there could be any number of mines between him and his target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And I can't even hit it from here,' he thought. 'It's difficult enough to hit from melee range, but it's impossible to hit it from here.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Luckily, I managed to hit it earlier. Otherwise, I would probably die.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But victory still isn't certain.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when the bright light had consumed the peacock, Shang had placed all his Death Mana on the peacock's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Death Mana used the Concept of Purgatory this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang called this attack Radiation.\u003C\u002Fp>",1017,"2026-06-06T04:07:23.285Z",1,"novelbin.me","65863461511398ab9dd33e481ee52b660cf7c12e5676d9989db0006e53e20aa0","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-793","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-791",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]