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.

from the Caterpillar

difference in techniques was just too

other students had access to

couldn't be learned without proper guidance and a lot

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

out from

under the impression that only someone at the General Stage could release their Affinity in such a

student explained to Shang that this was

couldn't manipulate their

could only

difference between a

and practiced Mana movement

they didn't use

they moved their

that knew a technique could theoretically replicate the same thing

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

it very hard to manipulate the

that

same thing applied

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

their Mana, they could use it in whichever way they

achieve, and people in the Soldier Stage couldn't achieve

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

the strength of

was

"Level one," he said.

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

easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At level

the student also swung his spear from side

the student bent the spear in several attacks to make the movements of

allowed to move around, which

student could do whatever

one and two were very easy for

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

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

students only snorted at Shang's performance,

here to

only

time, he would gain experience, and he would become

beat level three. He had watched how the other students

just by watching, Shang had already learned a lot about

lesson, Shang walked

Vice-Dean announced

theoretical lesson for

hours, Shang went to the

in the Empress Cobra Zone,"

uniforms and yellow uniforms, knowledge

economy, policies, wildlife, rulers, events, and many other things. It was just a general overview of different