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?"

the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day of Chaos, which

incredible amount of information in the

fancy palace or something. There also weren't many Apprentices or Adepts here. Sure, there were some,

Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern forest. It was close to the border of the Empress Cobra

sent their food to that

Warrior's Paradise, the Mage Academy wasn't

Mage Academy itself was basically its own

place because of the access to lots of natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic Mana Austerum in the middle, throwing the balance

and Adepts needed lots of Mana around them to

that place was

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 of Ice Apprentices in

the Ice Wyvern Zone

and Metal Mana were rare

of that, the Mage Academy didn't accept

wait, didn't Mattheo have

However, he was also the only Fire Apprentice

as Mattheo's teacher. Of course, the Fire Mage only

Mattheo had

how good was the Mage

average. It wasn't amazing, but

students graduated as

amazing? After all, a 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

end, this world was ruled

a Commander Stage warrior was

was also amazing,

for a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a multi-millionaire. It was essentially the

It was definitely amazing, but one still needed to find a great job and still prove themselves in their actual

teacher Loran appeared and called

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

Shang had managed to

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

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

and a lot of confidence,

"Shang."

when he heard his name, and he saw