Sword God in a World of Magic

"What do you know?!" Elver shouted in frustration.

"You never had to starve!"

"You never had to go out and risk your life to kill a Pest Cat because it keeps threatening your family!"

"You never needed to fear that your entire family is gone after just a single excursion into the wild! Every time I went out to train in the wilderness, I feared that I would find my family dead upon my return!"

"So, don't speak about hardship!" Elver shouted with a venomous tone.

The entire atmosphere turned hostile.

Elver had essentially insulted every student present.

Mattheo only looked at Elver with a polite smile.

"Elver, when was the last time you slept?" he asked.

"What does that have to do with anything?" he asked with an aggressive tone.

"Just humor me," Mattheo answered.

"About three days ago," Elver answered unwillingly.

Mattheo sighed. "Ah, a good night's sleep. How I miss that."

"Do you know when I last had a good night's sleep?"

Silence.

"Seven years ago."

Elver's expression transformed into shock and then disbelief. "How would that even be possible? You couldn't survive without sleeping."

"Mind Magic," Mattheo said. "A Mage that focuses on Mind Magic can put a Magic Circle into your mind that deals with memories."

"The Magic Circle distinguishes important information from unimportant information and transports it from my short-term memory to my long-term memory while I am still awake."

"My body can only rest during meditation while my mind is always active."

"Of course, such an intrusive procedure has plenty of disadvantages."

"For example, I can't sleep, even if I want to. I can't remember things that the Magic Circle deems unimportant."

"Have you ever been interested in someone, and you wanted to build a connection with them?"

after the conversation finishes because the Magic Circle doesn't deem that person

people came up to me and spoke about our previous conversations,

Silence.

like to not

you think it feels like to work

your

on the Warrior's

about etiquette, politics, history, and

a warrior, no matter how much I

top of my class in the

micromanaged to the finest

last went out with friends

compare our different situations. They are

teeth. "At least you have a family," he said with a venomous tone

shocked after

to

did

the top of his class in

and he remembered that Mattheo hadn't used

spells. After all, he

Mattheo managed to become the second strongest in the Caterpillar

entire image had changed in

Shang had seen Mattheo as only

had never known that Mattheo had

had thought that Astor was a

no, Mattheo was a

think lesser of me after my short outburst, Shang," Mattheo said

looked at Mattheo. "No,

everything's fine,"

really force such a cruel Magic Circle upon

Mattheo looked back.

Shang said quickly. "That was a personal question. I was

Mattheo chuckled a bit.

"It's fine."

that requested the

looked with shock

"Why?"

to be a warrior," Mattheo said with a distant look in his eyes. "I always thought that they were very valiant. In comparison to Mages, warriors meet danger head-on. They throw their bodies

want his own

decided to do both. As long as

had already

had founded the Warrior's

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