Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang and Astor talked for quite a while. Since Astor now viewed Shang as someone on his level, he had many questions about how Shang managed to hunt so many powerful beasts.

The same thing was true for Shang. He was interested in how Astor was able to be so powerful while having a Water Affinity.

Water Affinities were only good for healing. That was how everyone viewed them.

They had nearly no offensive capabilities.

They had nearly no defensive capabilities.

A Water Affinity was essentially only good for healing.

However, Astor managed to make his Water Affinity work. Even more, there were advantages to Astor's Water Affinity that he couldn't even show in training.

For example, Astor could gather his Water Mana to a part of his body and rapidly heal that part. During class, this power was useless since no one got injured very often.

Having a Water Affinity wasn't as useful as having a warrior's body when it came to healing, but it definitely was better than having any other Affinity.

A warrior's body healed the body automatically by directly converting Mana. A Water Affinity would need to actively be manipulated to heal the correct place, which would take time, concentration, and more Mana in total.

Of course, the tradeoff was that a warrior's body basically made it impossible to have much control over one's Affinity, to begin with.

Advantages and disadvantages.

"Is Mattheo also here?" Shang asked.

"No," Astor answered. "Mattheo is with the Mage Academy."

"The one north of the northeastern forest?" Shang asked. He had learned a lot during the last two weeks.

"Yes, that one," Astor answered.

"That's also where Duke Whirlwind lives, right?"

"Correct," Astor said. "Duke Whirlwind wouldn't want his son to be here during the Day of Chaos. After all, it isn't only the Storm Eagle Zone that goes through it."

Shang nodded. "The Empress Cobra also leaves on this day, right?"

of days, basically all the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day of Chaos, which was why Shang knew so much about

an incredible amount of information in the last two

or something. There also weren't many Apprentices or Adepts here.

Academy to the north of the northeastern forest.

Farm Line also sent their food to that

the Mage

Academy itself was basically its

access to lots of natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic

lots of Mana around them to

that place

had Wind Mana from the Storm Eagle Zone, and if they traveled a bit to the east, they had access to Water and Poison Mana. There were also a couple

since the Ice Wyvern Zone had a lot

Fire, Lightning, and Metal Mana

Academy didn't accept students with Fire, Lightning, or Metal

wait, didn't Mattheo

correct. However, he was also the only Fire Apprentice in the entire

Whirlwind hired a Fire Mage living in Warrior's Paradise as Mattheo's teacher. Of course,

general things, Mattheo had

good was the Mage

wasn't amazing, but it definitely also wasn't

of students graduated

True Mage was on the same level as a Commander Stage warrior, and the Warrior's Academy was famous for its ability to produce Commander Stage

the end, this world was

a Commander Stage

was also amazing, but not

that, for a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was

equivalent to getting one's Ph.D. It was definitely amazing, but one still needed to find a great job

talking, teacher Loran appeared

Loran also noticed Shang, and his brows furrowed, but he didn't say

could guess how Shang had

their students on this day. If a student died under their supervision, it would

power. If they wanted, they could probably increase their quota, but it would be up to their

had a lot of power and a lot of confidence, which was why

"Shang."

over when he heard his name, and he