Sword God in a World of Magic

The first lesson of the day: Swordsmanship.

A couple of students looked weirdly at Shang when they saw him.

They had heard of him before, but they hadn't expected him to be in their Grade. After all, Shang had never shown up to this lesson.

Most other students came from the yellow and blue factions, but there were also a couple of students with black, red, and green uniforms.

There were only five people from the Caterpillar Class in this lesson, and they had vouched for Shang when everyone inevitably started questioning why someone at the Peak Soldier Stage was in their Grade.

Teacher Mervin eventually arrived, and he began the lesson.

"Closing in on spear users," he announced.

After his announcement, a student at the Peak Soldier Stage walked forward.

He was tall, muscular, and had long green hair. A mighty spear was in his right hand.

None of the other students seemed surprised that the student was a level higher than them.

The student with the spear was someone in the Preparation Grade, and they were supposed to help the students in studying. He had to be more powerful to properly control his power and techniques against his opponents.

Of course, the student would earn quite some Contribution Points for performing this service.

After the student stepped forward, teacher Mervin called the first student to the front.

Teacher Mervin didn't explain anything.

He simply sent the student against the spear user.

"Level three," the student said, obviously familiar with how the lesson worked.

After that, the two students began fighting.

In just a couple of seconds, the sword user managed to get past the spear and reach the spear user's body.

At that point, the fight ended.

The two students parted ways, and the next student stepped up.

"Level three."

While one student after the other stepped forward, Shang asked one of the other Caterpillar Class students about what was going on.

The student told Shang that there were different levels of difficulty.

Level one was the easiest, while level five was the hardest.

If a student managed to beat level five, it meant that they could close in on a spear user a level above them.

There were only two students that beat that level, and both of them wore yellow uniforms.

from the Caterpillar Class

in techniques was just

other students had access to techniques perfected over years by the most talented

be learned without proper guidance

time, and for

had wind come out from their

when he saw that since he was under the impression that only

to Shang that this was the power of

couldn't manipulate their

could only follow

difference between a technique and

Mana movement to create

they

if they moved their Mana

knew a technique could theoretically replicate the same thing again and again like a

create a completely

incantations, the Mage would find it very hard to manipulate the Mana

guideline that showed

thing applied

they wanted to unleash

someone had mastery over their Mana, they could use

mastery was hard to achieve, and people in the Soldier Stage couldn't

with these techniques, they had a shortcut and a guiding light to attacks and movements

the strength of

it was

"Level one," he said.

a couple of questions to the teacher about how the student

Shang due to his stronger body. At level

swung his spear from

student bent the spear in several attacks

allowed to move around, which mostly

the student could do whatever

easy for Shang, but he failed

more powerful body, that basically meant that Shang was essentially only on level one when compared to

beat level five to reach the

at Shang's performance,

was here to

had only

would gain experience, and he

hours, and he eventually managed to beat level three. He had watched how the other students managed to close the distance, and he tried to

watching, Shang had already learned a lot about

lesson, Shang walked

a Fire Mage," the Vice-Dean

was another theoretical lesson for the

went to

Empress Cobra Zone," a teacher Shang didn't know

lesson for the blue uniforms and yellow uniforms,

events, and many other