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.

Caterpillar Class managed

techniques was just too

techniques of Soldier Stage warriors, which were themselves. The other students

like that couldn't be learned without proper

the students fight the spear user time after time, and for the first time, Shang saw

the students had wind come out from their back, which increased their speed

confused when he saw that since he was under the impression that only someone at the General Stage could release

another student explained to Shang that

manipulate their Affinity

could only

the difference between a

and practiced Mana

what if they didn't

if they moved

a technique could theoretically replicate the same thing again and again

a copier couldn't create a completely new piece of paper that

the Mage would find it

guideline that showed the Mage

same thing applied to

of Shang could unleash their Affinity in this very specific way, but if they wanted to unleash their Affinity in a different way,

mastery over their Mana, they

that mastery was hard to achieve, and people

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

was the strength of

was Shang's

"Level one," he said.

the teacher about how the

was very easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At level one, the opponent only stabbed forward without

student also swung his spear from side to

spear in several attacks to make the movements of his

allowed to move

the student

one and two were very easy for Shang, but he failed level

meant that Shang was essentially only on level one when compared to the other

body, he would need to beat level five to reach the average

at Shang's performance, but

was here to

only recently

would gain experience, and he would become

tries over the next three 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 emulate some of these

by watching, Shang had already learned a lot about fighting

lesson, Shang walked to

Fire Mage," the Vice-Dean announced when the

theoretical lesson for the red

hours, Shang went to the

Cobra Zone," a teacher Shang didn't

uniforms and yellow uniforms, knowledge about different

economy, policies, wildlife, rulers, events, and many other things. It was just