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.

to practice Magic with a warrior's body,

Why?

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

trained by pushing their Mana into their minds. In the beginning, Mages would retain normal bodies until they became Adepts. When they became Adepts, the power of their mind

would have a body equal to an Early

an entire

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

with a warrior's body would be forced into

in the General 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 same levels as

it made no

essentially forced into the path of a

body wasn't only a bad thing. The good thing about having a warrior's body was

warrior's body a faster

many people had a warrior's

2% of the

since a lot of peasants were peasants because they couldn't

that had a warrior's body. After all,

watchers were taking note of Shang's injury,

unleashed a

BANG! BANG! BANG!

and more times as Soran jumped around the room

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

single time, also using the

furniture

instincts and offensive, he would destroy

was true. He

the

Control.

they had to stop their attack and

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

it made no sense to continue the attack,

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

the other two teachers saw that, they nodded

shown extraordinary habits

of someone that had been in many real

which showed that Shang hadn't truly fought humans before and that he