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

techniques was

were themselves. The other students had access to techniques perfected over years by the most talented and experienced

without proper guidance and a lot of

after time, and for the first time,

had wind come out from their back, which increased their

since he was under the impression that

student explained to Shang that this was the power of a

couldn't manipulate their Affinity

could only follow

difference between

Mana movement to create a powerful

what if they didn't use

moved their Mana

theoretically replicate the same

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

find it very hard to manipulate

incantation was the guideline that

same thing

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 and lots of

someone had mastery over their Mana, they

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

they had a shortcut and a guiding light to attacks and movements that should be beyond their

was the strength

it was

"Level one," he said.

to the teacher about how the student should handle someone

easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At

student also swung his spear from side

spear in several attacks to make the movements of his spear less

to move around, which mostly meant

the student could do whatever they

one and two were very easy for

basically meant that Shang was essentially only on level one when compared

he would need to beat level five to reach the average

Shang's performance, but Shang didn't mind

here

only

experience, and

to beat level three. He had watched how the other students managed to

just by watching, Shang had already learned

the lesson, Shang walked

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

theoretical lesson

went to the next

Zone," a teacher

the blue uniforms

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