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.

people from the Caterpillar Class

difference in techniques was just

Stage warriors, which were themselves. The other students had access to techniques perfected over years by the most talented and experienced Commander

couldn't be learned without proper guidance and a lot of

watched the students fight the spear user time after time, and for the

wind come out from their back, which increased their speed

that since he was under the impression that

that

student couldn't manipulate

only

was the difference between a technique and

Mana movement to create

they

if they moved their

knew a technique could theoretically replicate the

copier couldn't create a completely new

the Mage would find it very hard to manipulate the

that

same thing applied to

specific way, but if they wanted to unleash their Affinity in a different way, they would need a long time and lots of

their Mana, they could use it

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

had a shortcut and a guiding light

the strength

it was

"Level one," he said.

couple of questions to the teacher about how the student should handle someone on his level,

easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At level

two, the student also swung his spear from

several attacks to

four, the student was allowed to move

the student

very easy for

that basically meant that Shang was essentially only on level one

would need to beat level five to

Shang's performance, but Shang didn't

here to

only recently

he would gain experience, and he

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

learned a lot about fighting someone with a

lesson, Shang walked

a Fire Mage," the Vice-Dean announced when the lesson

it was another theoretical lesson

went

Cobra Zone," a teacher Shang

lesson for the blue uniforms and yellow uniforms, knowledge about

rulers, events, and many other things. It was just a general overview of different