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?"

basically all the lessons revolved around the upcoming Day of Chaos, which was

incredible amount of information in

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

north of the northeastern forest. It was close to the border

Line also sent their food to that

the Mage

Academy itself was basically

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

Adepts needed lots of Mana

place

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

also present since the Ice

and Metal

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

Mattheo

However, he was also the

teacher. Of

things, Mattheo had

good was the Mage

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

of students graduated

amazing? After all, a True Mage was on the same level as a Commander Stage warrior,

the end, this

Commander Stage warrior was

Mage was also amazing,

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

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

of talking, teacher Loran appeared and

Shang, and his

could guess how Shang had managed to get a

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

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

a lot of confidence, which was why he took a whole 15 students

"Shang."

he heard his name, and he saw teacher