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.

impossible to practice Magic with a warrior's body, but

Why?

powerful by the passive Mana-radiation of the strengthened body. In short, this meant that

bodies until they became Adepts. When they became Adepts, the power of their mind would slowly strengthen their

Early Adept would have a body equal to

was an entire

at the same time, but that would consume double the resources and double the time for only

would be

start learning Magic. When the warrior had already reached the Second Realm, they could learn to cast

short, it made

essentially forced into the path of

good thing about having a warrior's body was that the body kept most of its Mana stored in the body

person with the warrior's body

had a

of the students in the

common outside the academy since a lot of peasants were peasants because

preferred students that had a warrior's body. After all, this was an

Shang's injury,

a

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Soran jumped around the room

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

time, also using

no furniture got

would think that with Shang's instincts and offensive, he would destroy the furniture. After all, it wasn't his style to hold

that was true. He wasn't holding

why was the

Control.

they

the enemy didn't evade, a good warrior wouldn't hit the surroundings. Their attacks

it made no sense to continue the attack,

in their surroundings and adapt to them would mindlessly continue attacking when they couldn't

teachers saw

now, Shang had shown extraordinary habits

were the habits of someone that had been in many

which showed that Shang hadn't truly