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.

Caterpillar

in techniques was just

which were themselves. The other students

without

time, and

wind come out from their

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

another student explained to Shang that this was the power of

couldn't manipulate their Affinity

could only follow

was the difference between

and practiced Mana movement

they didn't

moved

replicate the same thing again and

a copier couldn't create a completely new piece

it very hard to manipulate the Mana

was the guideline that showed the

thing applied

specific way, but if they wanted to unleash their Affinity in

had mastery over their Mana, they could use it

achieve, and people in the

with these techniques, they had a shortcut and a guiding light to attacks and movements that should be beyond

the strength of

it was

"Level one," he said.

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

very easy for Shang due to his stronger body. At level one,

the student also swung his spear

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

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

level five, the student could do whatever

easy for

his more powerful body, that basically meant that Shang was essentially only on

would need to beat level five

only snorted at Shang's

was here to

had only

would gain experience,

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

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

lesson, Shang walked to the next

Fire Mage," the Vice-Dean announced

theoretical lesson for

hours, Shang went

Empress Cobra Zone," a teacher Shang

blue uniforms and yellow

events, and many other things. It was just a general overview of