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 upcoming Day of Chaos, which was why Shang knew so much about it

had learned an incredible amount of

actually was. Warrior's Paradise didn't have any kind of fancy palace or something. There also weren't many Apprentices or Adepts here. Sure, there were some, but definitely not enough

Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern forest.

also sent their food to

to Warrior's Paradise, 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,

lots of Mana around

that place

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

Ice Wyvern Zone had a

Lightning, and Metal Mana

Mage Academy didn't accept

wait, didn't Mattheo

he was also the only Fire Apprentice in the entire

as Mattheo's teacher. Of

things, Mattheo had the

how good was

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

students graduated as True

then how was the Warrior's Academy so amazing? After all, a True Mage was on the same level as a Commander Stage warrior, and the Warrior's Academy was

in the end, this world was ruled by

Commander Stage

a True Mage was also

a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was the

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

of talking, teacher

Loran also noticed Shang, and his brows

could guess how Shang had managed to

left with teacher Loran. After all, the teachers were responsible for protecting their students on

their power. If they wanted, they

lot of confidence, which was

"Shang."

heard his name,