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.

level the people from the Caterpillar Class managed to

difference in techniques was just

The other students had access

like that couldn't be learned without proper guidance and

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

come out from their back, which increased their

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

student explained to Shang that this was the

couldn't manipulate

only follow

difference between a technique and

Mana movement to create a

if they

if they moved their Mana

could theoretically replicate the same thing

a completely new piece of paper that didn't

would find it very hard to manipulate the Mana

that

thing

student in front of Shang could unleash their Affinity in this very specific way, but if they wanted to unleash their Affinity in a different way, they would need a long time

someone had mastery over their Mana, they could use it in whichever way

was hard to achieve, and people in the Soldier

a guiding light to attacks and movements that should be beyond

the

was

"Level one," he said.

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

his stronger body. At level

level two, the student also swung his spear from

spear in several attacks to make the movements of his

level four, the student was allowed to move around, which mostly meant them

the student could do whatever

very easy for

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

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

Shang's performance, but Shang didn't mind

was here to

only

would gain experience, and he

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

learned a lot about fighting someone

walked to

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

it was another theoretical lesson for the red

Shang went to the next

Zone," a teacher

uniforms and

lessons talked about the local economy, policies, wildlife, rulers, events, and many other