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

learned an incredible amount of information in the

Warrior's Paradise didn't have any kind of fancy palace or something. There also weren't many Apprentices

a big Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern forest. It was close

sent their food to that Mage

Warrior's Paradise, the Mage

Mage Academy itself was basically

natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had a gigantic Mana Austerum in the middle, throwing the balance of Mana inside the

needed lots of Mana

place was

access to Water and Poison Mana. There were also a couple of Ice Apprentices in the school, but they

also present since the Ice

Lightning, and Metal Mana

the Mage Academy didn't accept students

wait, didn't Mattheo have a

he was also the only

in Warrior's Paradise as Mattheo's teacher.

things, Mattheo had

how good was

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

graduated

level as a Commander Stage warrior, and the Warrior's

end, this

Commander Stage warrior was

also amazing, but

compared to Earth, one could say that, for a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a multi-millionaire. It was essentially the goal for 99% of all

but one still needed to find

while of talking, teacher Loran appeared and called

Loran also noticed Shang, and his

could guess how Shang had managed to

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

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

a lot of confidence, which was why he

"Shang."

his name, and he saw teacher