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?"

all the lessons revolved around the upcoming

learned an incredible amount of information

palace or something. There

Academy to the north of

their food to that

to Warrior's Paradise, the Mage Academy wasn't

was basically its own

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

needed lots of Mana

that place

Poison Mana. There were also a couple of Ice Apprentices in the

present since the Ice Wyvern Zone had a lot of

Metal Mana were

Mage Academy didn't accept

wait, didn't Mattheo have

was also the only Fire Apprentice in the entire

Mattheo's teacher.

general things, Mattheo

good was the

average. It wasn't amazing, but it

graduated as True

all, a True Mage was on the same level as

the end, this world

a Commander Stage warrior

a True Mage was also amazing, but

the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a multi-millionaire. It was essentially

but one still needed to find a great job and still prove themselves in their actual

while of talking, teacher Loran appeared and

also noticed Shang, and his brows furrowed,

how Shang had

with teacher Loran. After all, the teachers were responsible for protecting their students on this day. If a student died

student with them showed a teacher's confidence in their power. If they wanted, they could probably increase their quota, but it

of power and a lot of confidence, which was why he took a whole

"Shang."

looked over when he heard his name, and he