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?"

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

incredible amount of information

fancy palace or something. There also

that there was a big Mage Academy to the north of the northeastern forest. It was close to the border of the Empress

also sent their

Warrior's Paradise, the Mage Academy wasn't

Mage Academy itself was

because of the access to lots of natural Mana. Warrior's Paradise had

Adepts needed lots of Mana

that place was

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 more towards the northwest, near

Ice Wyvern Zone had a lot of

Fire, Lightning, and Metal

Mage Academy didn't accept

Mattheo

correct. However, he was also the only

hired a Fire Mage living in Warrior's Paradise as Mattheo's teacher. Of course,

things, Mattheo had the Mage

was

wasn't amazing, but it definitely

of students graduated

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

this

Commander Stage

a True Mage was also amazing, but not

a warrior, reaching the Commander Stage was the equivalent of being a multi-millionaire. It was essentially the goal for 99% of all

amazing, but one still needed to find

talking, teacher Loran appeared

Loran also noticed Shang, and his brows furrowed, but he

could guess how Shang had managed to

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

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

and a lot of confidence, which was why he took

"Shang."

when he heard his