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 managed to

difference in techniques was just

The other students had access to techniques perfected over years by

that couldn't be learned without proper guidance

after time, and for the first time, Shang saw the power of real

of the students had wind come out from

was a bit confused when he saw that since he was under the impression that only someone at the

that this was the power of

couldn't manipulate

only

difference between a

practiced Mana

if they

moved

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

copier couldn't create a completely

the Mage would find it very hard to manipulate the

that

same thing applied

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

their Mana, they could

that mastery was hard to achieve, and people in

techniques, they had a shortcut and a guiding light

was the strength

was

"Level one," he said.

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

was very easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At level one, the opponent only stabbed forward

level two, the student also swung his spear

level three, the student bent the spear in several attacks

to move around, which mostly meant

level five, the student could do whatever

easy for Shang, but he failed

that Shang was essentially only on level one

would need to beat

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

was here to

only recently

would gain experience, and

had watched how the

just by watching, Shang had already learned a

lesson, Shang walked to

the Vice-Dean announced when the lesson

theoretical lesson for the

Shang went

Zone," a

was a lesson for the blue uniforms

wildlife, rulers, events, and many other things. It was just a general