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 Class managed to

techniques was just too

Soldier Stage warriors, which were themselves. The other students had access to

without proper guidance and

the spear user time after time, and for the first time, Shang saw the power

wind come out from their back, which increased their speed by

impression that only someone at the

to Shang that this was the power of a

student couldn't manipulate their Affinity

could only

difference between a technique

and practiced Mana movement to create

what if they didn't use

they moved their

that knew a technique could theoretically replicate the same thing

copier couldn't create a completely new

would find it

guideline that showed the Mage the

same thing applied

specific way, but if they wanted to unleash their Affinity in a different way, they would need

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

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

guiding light to attacks and movements that

was the strength of

it was Shang's

"Level one," he said.

how the

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

swung his spear

bent the spear in several attacks to make

the student was allowed to move around, which mostly meant

level five, the student could

and two were very easy for Shang, but he failed

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

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

Shang's performance,

here to

had only recently

experience, and

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

already learned

lesson, Shang walked to the

Mage," the Vice-Dean announced when the lesson

it was another theoretical lesson for the

hours, Shang went to the next

Empress Cobra Zone," a teacher Shang

uniforms

the local economy, policies, wildlife, rulers, events, and many other things. It was just