Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at the new teacher.

The new teacher looked like someone in his early thirties. He had long, emerald green hair, and he wore a green suit of leather armor.

This teacher's appearance surprised Shang. First of all, that teacher didn't wear the normal silver getup that all the other teachers wore. Second of all, he appeared a bit on the younger side for teachers. Most of the teachers looked like they were in their forties or fifties.

"Follow him, boy," the first teacher said to Shang with an annoyed tone.

"Oh, right!" Shang answered. Then, he looked at the new teacher and nodded politely. "Thank you."

"No thanks necessary," the green-haired teacher said with a smile. "After all, you're paying for all of this."

Shang only nodded.

The teacher looked at the others. "Talk to you later," he said.

"Don't abuse him too hard," a woman from the side giggled.

"Why do you always have to do this, Melena?" the teacher asked with a groan. "If you keep doing this, the students will one day start believing your crap."

The other teachers only giggled as they entered the academy.

The teacher watched them leave and sighed. "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your colleagues," the teacher said to Shang.

"You can," came a distant shout from one of the teachers.

"Stuff it!" the teacher shouted back with furrowed brows.

Shang could only hear more laughing.

"Come," the teacher said as he gestured to the school with his head before entering.

Shang followed behind the teacher and looked around. For the first time, Shang could actually see the inside of this legendary academy.

Shang could see empty fields filled with rubble, some clean training places, and even a small forest, which surprised him. Warrior's Paradise was already very limited in terms of space, and the academy just placed a forest here?

"Hide and seek," the teacher in front of Shang said.

"What?" Shang asked.

"Hide and seek," the teacher repeated as he gestured towards the forest. "You won't always fight in open terrain. Sometimes, you are outmatched, and you have to flee. Sometimes, opponents might hide in the area to ambush you. That's what the forest is for."

"Oh, okay. Makes sense," Shang said absentmindedly.

The teacher noticed that Shang was too preoccupied with looking, so he didn't elaborate further.

"The atmosphere between you teachers feels more personal and comfortable than I anticipated," Shang commented suddenly.

"Why wouldn't it be?

normal, but it's not a given that the relationship between your boss and you is

teacher uttered as he threw a glance

"Additionally, one of the others shouted that you can choose your colleagues, hinting at

chin. "That's an interesting word. I've never heard of it before, but I can take a good guess at

to see these details. It might seem obvious to you, but not everyone notices these things. A lot of people look at what I wear, and

these things? From which family

awkward

not from any family,"

teacher looked at Shang with a skeptical expression. "So, you learned that all on your

the difficult part," Shang said. "I don't

"You don't know?"

know," Shang confirmed. "My oldest memory is from when I woke up in Duke Whirlwind's garden a bit more than

your bright mind, you can probably understand why that story

this academy is run by the strongest warrior in the world, and he's a very altruistic person. He isn't interested

past political affiliations are irrelevant here. Yes, we might be in Duke Whirlwind's territory, and yes, we might have a deep connection with him, but

are you still adamant about the fact that you lost your memory? I must warn you. We have ways to check if your claim is true,"

because that's what happened,"

at Shang with a skeptical expression. "Alright, then let's test that right

stood there without

his finger at Shang's forehead and

started to cast a

saw that

supposed to be

armor and a long spear

suddenly

seconds to finish his spell. Obviously, he was unused to casting

Shang felt the words the teacher

he heard similar words

Mana came out of his finger and entered

remembered where he had

spell to check if everything was alright with

a full second

Mana came out

at the Mana,

"So?" Shang asked.

a surprised expression. "I can see

you tell me more about it?" Shang asked, fully

heard the term before. I know some spells

to see if the Mana coming out of your mind is normal-looking or not. We mainly use that spell to check if someone's memory has been tampered with. That's basically the only thing

Shang said with

scratched his chin

kid had lied to him,

Amnesia, huh?

Who would've thought?