Sword God in a World of Magic

"Thanks," Shang answered Soran.

When Soran heard Shang's words, he nodded in appreciation.

Why?

Because a lot of kids tried to appear too prideful or motivated. They would proclaim with a frown that they were sad they hadn't won or something similar.

However, that didn't make them seem endearing or motivated but stupid.

This had never been a fight where victory was up for grabs. If they said that they weren't fine with losing, it would only show their childishness. It would show that they weren't able to distinguish a winnable fight from an unwinnable one.

If someone truly thought like that, the chances were high that they would start a fight they couldn't win, and they would die early. If someone didn't think that but said it regardless, they would only be a people pleaser.

Accepting when someone was superior to oneself was one of the most important rules a warrior had to learn. It was an essential skill for survival.

"Hey, Soran, how about you let the kid actually show his skills?" Mervin said from his chair. "This entire fight was supposed to show us his sword skills."

Soran only smiled awkwardly as he scratched the back of his head. "Sorry. I just wanted to show him how annoying it can be when someone suddenly attacks out of nowhere."

"Anyway," Soran said as he looked at Shang. At the same time, his spear vanished, and he lifted his arms. "Let's see your sword skills. I won't fight back, but I will block and evade. Just treat my arms as shields. You don't have to worry. By using Mana, my body becomes so hard that you can't damage it."

Shang nodded as he readied his sword.

At the same time, the other three threw glances at Shang's abdomen.

There was still a cut on Shang's abdomen, but it was quickly healing.

This told the teachers two things.

First of all, Shang acted like he didn't even notice his injury, which gave more credibility to his claims of how he was training his body.

Second, Shang's injury was already closing, which meant that he had a warrior's body.

What was a warrior's body?

In this world, a warrior's body was seen as a disadvantage. In essence, having a warrior's body meant that one wasn't able to actively push Mana towards one's mind. Without a way to actively push Mana towards one's Spirit, one wasn't able to become a Mage.

Of course, in a world where Magic was the only way to true power, this was a bad thing.

practice Magic with a warrior's body, but it basically made no

Why?

the passive Mana-radiation of the strengthened body. In short, this meant that one's body had to

would retain normal bodies until they became Adepts. When they became Adepts, the power

an Early Adept would have a body equal to an Early

an entire Realm

could also train both at the same time, but that would consume

with a warrior's body would be forced

Stage first before they could start learning Magic. When the warrior had already reached the Second Realm, they could learn to cast spells at the

short, it

warrior's body was essentially

thing. The good thing about having a warrior's body was that the body

with the warrior's

people had a warrior's

2% of the students

outside the academy since a lot of peasants were

of course, the academy still preferred students that had a warrior's body. After all, this was an academy

watchers were taking note of Shang's injury, Shang began to unleash a relentless

and quickly unleashed a slash, which was

BANG! BANG! BANG!

more and more times as Soran jumped around the room to keep

jumping on the table, the backs of chairs, and other

time, also using the environment

no furniture

think that with Shang's instincts and offensive, he would destroy the furniture. After

true. He

the furniture

Control.

realize when they had to stop

enemy didn't evade, a good warrior wouldn't hit the

it made no sense to continue the attack,

that wasn't able to take in their surroundings and adapt to them would mindlessly continue attacking when they couldn't hit

two teachers saw that, they nodded

now, Shang had shown extraordinary habits and battle

of someone that had been in many real fights in their

in Shang's style of battle, which showed that Shang hadn't truly fought humans before and that he hadn't been in