Sword God in a World of Magic

The book had only about thirty pages, which didn't take very long to read. A big part of the book was about rules regarding fighting, attending lessons, how to obtain Contribution Points, the functions of the room, and some general information.

From what Shang had read, fighting with one's weapon was forbidden, but fighting without a weapon was fine. The reason for such a choice was to preserve the killing intent in someone. If someone used their killing tool to spar with others a lot, they might lose their killing intent.

Because of that, the academy tried to preserve the killing intent of the weapon. One should only draw one's weapon when one intended to kill someone.

Of course, there were exceptions. For example, two students could schedule an official spar at any of the training areas. In that case, they could use their weapon.

But wait, how did that differ from just fighting normally? After all, it was also just a spar.

The difference was that the students had to fight with the intent of killing the other person. It was not in their responsibility to keep the opponent safe. The observing teacher would be responsible for keeping the loser alive.

So, the student would still be fighting with the goal of killing their opponent. It was just that the opponent would survive due to outside intervention.

Attending lessons was surprisingly completely optional. No student was forced to attend the lessons.

This rule existed to teach students responsibility.

On earth, something like this wouldn't really work. After all, the consequences of getting bad grades weren't immediate as long as someone didn't fail the grade. This made the danger distant, making the student feel like they weren't actually in danger.

But here, it would have very real consequences. Due to the first rule, bullying and ganging up on others were allowed. If a teacher saw five kids beating up a younger student, they wouldn't intervene.

However, the survival of that student would also be under the assailants' responsibilities. If they killed a student without a good reason, the assailants would be executed by the academy.

Even more, if someone didn't have a warrior's body, they would need to go to the resident Water Mage to get themselves healed, and the cost of the treatment would need to come out of their own pocket.

So, it was literally possible to push someone into impossible poverty. If someone made some serious enemies, they could be suppressed into always being forced to remain in their rooms in the academy. This would stop them from attending lessons, earning money, and training.

How did one get out of such a situation?

That was not the academy's problem.

Strength ruled supreme. Either the students would become powerful or break.

As for earning Contribution Points, there were three ways.

to

seriously attend them and not just be present. Teachers could

was doing a mission. There were a couple of mission boards around the school that offered different missions. The rewards for these missions were many times higher than attending lessons

sent out without supervision or

commissioning the missions were paying the academy in exotic materials, which allowed the academy to keep its marketplace going. Of course, the student had

they would have to justify that decision to

thankful that they actually wrote about it. If they hadn't described the room, Shang

That empty bucket?

was imbued

What kind of Magic?

It was Transportation Magic.

a space with a couple of Water Apprentices and Water Adepts.

interference, water would flow. This was to stop an accidental activation of the Magic Circle. Without that,

Then, a stream of water would

shat

log coming out of a Magic Array in front of a

would have been

bucket was simply

washing and drinking. Surprisingly, there was also

looked to the corner of the room

and it was responsible for dumping the dirty water into

did they not just make a normal drain with normal pipes? Why did

but there were two

they simply created

Second, because they could.

funny if they transported such unimportant stuff

That was the reason.

looked at the description of the

total, there were

the azure uniform, which Shang had

uniforms were for special occasions and were forbidden

short, those uniforms were for impressing visitors. That was also why Shang had only two