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.

the people from the Caterpillar Class managed to beat was level

difference in techniques

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

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

and for the first time, Shang

had wind come out from their back, which increased their speed by

under the impression that only someone at

student explained to Shang that this was the power of a

couldn't manipulate their Affinity

could only

was the difference between a technique and

and practiced Mana movement to create a powerful

what if they

moved their Mana

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

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

the incantations, the Mage would find it

incantation was the guideline that showed the

same thing applied

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

they could use it

and people in

these techniques, they had a shortcut and a guiding

the strength of

it was

"Level one," he said.

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

his stronger body. At level one, the opponent only stabbed forward

two, the student also swung his spear from

three, the student bent the spear in several attacks to make the movements

was allowed to move around, which mostly meant them

student

easy for Shang,

more powerful body, that basically meant that Shang was essentially

would need to beat level five to reach the average of the

other students only snorted at Shang's performance, but Shang didn't mind

was here

had only

experience,

got several more 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

just by watching, Shang had already learned a lot about fighting someone

the lesson, Shang walked to

Mage," the Vice-Dean announced

theoretical lesson for

Shang went

Zone," a teacher Shang didn't

blue uniforms and yellow uniforms,

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